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  1. www.worldatlas.com › maps › yemenYemen Maps & Facts - World Atlas

    Dec 7, 2022 · Key Facts. Flag. Yemen is a sovereign nation with an area of 527,970 sq. km. Mainland Yemen lies in the Arabian Peninsula of Asia. The country has an extensive coastline of around 2,000 km and over 200 islands. As observed on the physical map of Yemen above, the Socotra Islands are also a part of the country. Yemen has some of the most fertile ...

  2. www.cia.gov › about › archivesYemen - The World Factbook

    Dec 21, 2021 · Area. total: 527,968 sq km. land: 527,968 sq km. water: 0 sq km. note: includes Perim, Socotra, the former Yemen Arab Republic (YAR or North Yemen), and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen) country comparison to the world: 52.

  3. www.cia.gov › the-world-factbook › countriesCountry Summary - World Factbook Glyph

    The Kingdom of Yemen (colloquially known as North Yemen) became independent from the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and in 1962 became the Yemen Arab Republic. The British withdrew in 1967 from what became the People's Republic of Southern Yemen (colloquially known as South Yemen). The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990.

  4. www.aljazeera.com › news › 2022/2/9Infographic: Yemen’s war explained in maps and charts

    Feb 9, 2022 · Nearly half the country (14.5 million) of 30 million people do not have enough food, according to the World Food Programme. Nearly half (47.5 percent) of the children under five face chronic ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Yemeni_civil_war_(2014Yemeni civil war (2014–present) - Wikipedia

    A spokesman for Yemen's exiled government told Reuters on 29 April that the country would officially seek membership in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Media reports have noted that the civil war has reached nearly all of Yemen, with one notable exception being the remote Indian Ocean archipelago of Socotra , [389] where the war spread due to the South Yemen insurgency in 2017.

  6. www.nationsonline.org › oneworld › yemenYemen - Country Profile - Republic of Yemen - Middle East

    Yemen is a desert country in the Middle East on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, bordered in west by the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, in north by Saudi Arabia and in north east by Oman. Yemen has maritime borders with Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somalia.

  7. www.cfr.org › conflict › war-yemenWar in Yemen | Global Conflict Tracker - Council on Foreign ...

    Mar 5, 2024 · The intervention of regional powers in Yemen’s conflict, including Iran and Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia, also drew the country into a regional proxy struggle along the broader Sunni-Shia divide.