Everything you need to know about Yemen
Explore Yemen from Sanaโaโs decorated tower houses and the terraces of Haraz to Wadi Hadhramaut, the Red Sea coast and Socotra. Learn twenty-two administrative areas, place twenty cities and towns and twenty heritage sights, then explore ten illustrated topics, thirty answered questions and linked Arabic lessons.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Yemen
Highland terraces, the Tihamah plain and eastern desert meet the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea.
Know the shape of the country
Start with twenty-one governorates and the separate capital municipality, including the Socotra island group. Place twenty cities and towns, then distinguish the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea in a short three-answer round. Administrative geometry: geoBoundaries gbOpen / OpenStreetMap, ODbL 1.0, representing 2017. Coastal waters and context land: Natural Earth, public domain. These generalised maps show reference areas rather than lines of control or maritime claims.
Heritage and landscapes
Essential ยท World Heritage city
Old City of Sanaโa
Decorated multi-storey houses, markets, gardens and mosques form a living city rather than an empty monument. Stone, brick and white plaster details distinguish its architecture from Shibamโs mud-brick towers. The pin marks a representative point in the historic core.
Locate twenty places across Yemenโs highlands, historic towns, coastal ports and Socotra. All five World Heritage properties are represented, with component or representative landscape pins where a property covers several places. Essential and Worth a detour indicate learning priorities only. These locations are not an itinerary, current access information or assurances of safety. Official advice warns against travel throughout Yemen, including Socotra. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Arabic with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Yemen, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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