Yemen (yem)

Yemen

Yemen ranks 3,961st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Latina, Lazio, Alcobendas, and Llanelli. Memorable people born in Yemen include Uwais al-Qarani, Malik al-Ashtar, and Miqdad ibn Aswad. Memorable people who died in Yemen include Fayruz al-Daylami. Yemen has been the birth place of many religious figures and companions and the death place of many military personnels. Yemen is located in Yemen.

Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia. Located in the southern Arabian Peninsula, it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, and the Indian Ocean to the south, sharing maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia across the Horn of Africa. Covering roughly 528,000 square kilometres, with a coastline of approximately 2,000 kilometres, Yemen is the second largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. Sanaa is its constitutional capital and largest city. Yemen's estimated population is 34.7 million, comprised mostly of Arab Muslims. It is a member of the Arab League, the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Read more on Wikipedia