Yemen

Yemen

Yemen ranks 135th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mozambique, Gabon, and Madagascar. Memorable people born in present day Yemen include Ali Abdullah Saleh, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and Uwais al-Qarani. Memorable people who died in Yemen include Ali Abdullah Saleh, Peter Forsskål, and Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din. Yemen has been the birth place of many politicians, and religious figures and the death place of many politicians, and biologists.

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 south-eastern part of the Arabian Sea to the east, the Gulf of Aden to the south, and the Red Sea to the west, sharing maritime borders with Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somalia across the Horn of Africa. Covering roughly 455,503 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