Yemen (yem)

Yemen

Yemen ranks 4,474th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mosonmagyaróvár, Boston, Lincolnshire, and Harlingen, Texas. Memorable people born in Yemen include Uwais al-Qarani, Abdullah ibn Saba', and Malik al-Ashtar. Memorable people who died in Yemen include Fayruz al-Daylami, and Abdullah al-Sallal. Yemen has been the birth place of many religious figures, and writers and the death place of many military personnels, and politicians. Yemen is located in Yemen.

Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the Red Sea to the west, 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, mostly 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