Yemen

The Republic of Yemen is a country in the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia, and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia.

الجمهوريّة اليمنية
Al-Jumhuriyah al-Yamaniyah

(In Detail) (In Detail)
National motto: none
Official language	Arabic
Capital	Sanaá
President	Ali Abdullah Saleh
Prime Minister	Abdul Qadir Bajamal
Area  - Total  - % water	Ranked 48th 527,970 km² Negligible
Population  - Total (2003)  - Density	Ranked 53rd 19,349,881 37/km²
Unification	May 22, 1990
Currency	Yemeni rial (YER)
Time zone	UTC +3
National anthem	United Republic
Internet TLD	.YE
Calling Code	967

History

Main article: History of Yemen

The ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy described Yemen as Arabia Felix.

North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern government adopted a Soviet orientation. There followed two decades of hostility between the two states. The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990. A southern secessionist movement in 1994 was quickly subdued.

On October 12, 2000, the USS Cole - an American guided missile destroyer - was attacked by waterborne terrorists as the American ship was refueling in the port of Yemen. Two suicide bombers approached the Cole in a small boat loaded with explosives. Once alongside the ship, the men detonated the explosives, killing themselves and 17 American sailors.

The bombers, it was later determined, were part of Osama bin Laden's Al Queda terrorist network.

Politics

Main article: Politics of Yemen

Governorates

Main article: Governorates of Yemen

Geography

Main article: Geography of Yemen

Map of Yemen

Economy

Main article: Economy of Yemen

Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, reported strong growth in the mid-1990s with the onset of oil production, but was harmed by low oil prices in 1998. Yemen has embarked on an IMF-supported structural adjustment program designed to modernize and streamline the economy, which has led to foreign debt relief and restructuring. Aided by higher oil prices in 1999, Yemen worked to maintain tight control over spending and implement additional components of the IMF program. The high population growth rate of 3.4% and internal political dissension complicate the government's task.

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of Yemen

Culture

Main article: Culture of Yemen

• Music of Yemen

Yemenite Jews are the Jewish people who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen. They are known as Teimanim, and are considered to be a subdivision of Mizrahi Jews.

Miscellaneous topics

• Communications in Yemen
• Transportation in Yemen
• Military of Yemen
• Foreign relations of Yemen
• List of cities in Yemen

Arab League
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