Sanaa (yem)

Sanaa

Sanaa ranks 2,297th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ohrid, Prizren, and Bunkyō. Memorable people born in Sanaa include Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, Muhammad al-Badr, and Ahmad bin Yahya. Memorable people who died in Sanaa include Ali Abdullah Saleh, Wahb ibn Munabbih, and Ibrahim al-Hamdi. Sanaa has been the birth place of many politicians, and geographers and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Sanaa is located in Yemen.

Sanaa, officially the Sanaa Municipality, is the de jure capital and largest city of Yemen. The city is the capital of the Sanaa Governorate, but is not part of the governorate, as it forms a separate administrative unit. At an elevation of 2,300 metres (7,500 ft), Sanaa is one of the highest capital cities in the world and is next to the Sarawat Mountains of Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb and Jabal Tiyal, considered to be the highest mountains in the Arabian Peninsula and one of the highest in the Middle East. Read more on Wikipedia