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Yemen, [a] officially the Republic of Yemen, [b] is a country in West Asia. [11] 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.
The country's mountainous interior is surrounded by narrow coastal plains to the west, south, and east and by upland desert to the north along the border with Saudi Arabia. The Tihamah is a nearly 419-kilometre (260 mi) long, semidesert coastal plain that runs along the Red Sea and is part of the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert ecoregion .
An enlargeable topographic map of Yemen. Geography of Yemen. Yemen is: a country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Asia. Southwest Asia; Middle East. Arabian Peninsula; Time zone: UTC+03; Extreme points of Yemen High: Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb 3,666 m (12,028 ft) Low: Arabian Sea 0 m; Land boundaries: 1,746 km Saudi ...
Debates on which countries should be included in the Middle East are wide-ranging. [52] The Greater Middle East and North Africa region can include the Caucasus, Cyprus, Afghanistan, and several sub-Saharan African states due to various social, religious and historic ties. The most commonly accepted countries in the MENA region are included on ...
The lowest-ranking country in the Middle East, in terms of GDP nominal per capita, is Yemen ($573). [ 57 ] The economic structure of Middle Eastern nations are different in the sense that while some nations are heavily dependent on export of only oil and oil-related products (such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait), others have a highly ...
The Haraz Mountains in the west of present-day Yemen include Arabia's highest mountain, Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb or Jabal Hadhur [32] [33] [34] near Sanaa [29] [30] There are mountains at the eastern, southern and northwestern borders of the peninsula. Broadly, the ranges can be grouped as follows: Northeast: The Hajar range, of UAE and Oman [31]
The Rub' al-Khali desert is a sedimentary basin stretching along a south-west to north-east axis across the Arabian Shelf. [5] At an altitude of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft), rock landscapes yield to the Rub' al-Khali, a vast stretch of sand whose extreme southern point crosses the center of Yemen.
The following is a list of countries in the Middle East sorted by projected population. ... Yemen: 29,710,300: 6.56: 2.28: ... List of Middle Eastern countries by ...