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Middle East and North Africa
Yemen |
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| Last updated: 03 September 2009 |
Country information
GEOGRAPHY
Yemen lies at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula and has frontiers with Saudi Arabia and Oman and controls the strategic straits at the Southern entrance to the Red Sea (Bab al Mendab). The north of the country has three well-defined areas: a coastal strip along the Red Sea, the highlands inland and a desert area to the east. The south consists largely of mountains and desert. The population is poor and largely rural, but there has been large-scale urbanisation in the last decade and almost half of the population now live in towns.
