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Yemen
Fact
Sheet :
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Area :
527,970 sq km
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Population : 22,230,531 (July 2007 est.)
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Capital : Sanaa
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Language : Arabic
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Currency : Yemeni
rial (YER)
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Government type : republic
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Elements of History :
North
Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The
British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern
port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what
became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern government
adopted a Marxist orientation. The massive exodus of hundreds
of thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed
to two decades of hostility between the states. The two countries
were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990. A
southern secessionist movement in 1994 was quickly subdued.
In 2000, Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to a delimitation of
their border.
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Climate :
mostly
desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western
mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot,
dry, harsh desert in east
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