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Average annual rainfall is 127 millimetres (5 in). The highest mountainous areas of southern Yemen receive from 520 to 760 mm (20.5 to 29.9 in) of rain a year. Some areas of the western highlands, most notably Ibb and Ta'izz, receive from about 1,000–1,500 millimetres (39.4–59.1 in) of rain each year.
South Yemen, [c] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, [d] abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, [e] [f] was a state that existed from 1967 to 1990 as the only communist state in the Middle East and the Arab world. [7] It was made up of the southern and eastern governorates of the present-day Republic of Yemen, including the island ...
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 ...
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Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 104 %. Geographic limits of the map: N: 19.5° N; S: 11.4° N; W: 41.8° E; E: 54.7° E; Date: 17 August 2009: Source: Own work, using United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency data; World Data Base II data; Central Statistical Organisation of Yemen; Author: NordNordWest: Permission (Reusing ...
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The ecoregion occupies an area of 19,913 km 2 (7,688 sq mi) in eastern Yemen and southern Oman's Dhofar Governorate. The ecoregion covers four separate areas. The westernmost is the Ureys (or Areys) range, a coastal mountain range that rises east of the town of Shuqrah, 150 kilometres northeast of Aden. The range is made up of dark igneous rock ...
Lahij or Lahej (Arabic: لحج, romanized: Laḥj), formerly called Al-Hawtah, [1] is a city and an area located between Ta'izz and Aden in Yemen.From the 18th to the 20th century, its rulers were of the Abdali branch of the Al-Sallami tribe who trace their lineage to one of the 10 tribes of Yaffa called Kalad.