Socotra Airport
Socotra Airport (Arabic: مطار سقطرى الدولي) is an airport in Socotra, Yemen (IATA: SCT, ICAO: OYSQ).
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676 Articles of interest in Yemen
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Yemen LNG (also called YLNG) is the first 'natural gas liquefaction (LNG) project in Yemen.
Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb
Jabal an-Nabi Shu'aib (Arabic: جبل النبي شعيب mountain of the prophet Shu'aib) is a mountain located in Sana'a Governorate, Yemen. It is the highest mountain of the country and the highest mountain in the Arabian Peninsula.
Ma'rib Governorate
Ma'rib (Arabic: مأرب Ma'rib) is a governorate of Yemen.
Hajjah Governorate
Hajjah (Arabic: حجة Ḥaǧǧa) is a governorate of Yemen.
Abd al Kuri
Abd al Kuri (Arabic: عبد الكوري) is a rocky island about 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. It is part of the Socotra Archipelago and belongs to the Hadhramaut Governorate of Yemen, although it is geographically closer to S…
'Amran Governorate
'Amran (Arabic: عمران 'Amrān) is a governorate of Yemen.
Riyan Airport
Riyan Airport (also known as Riyan Mukalla Airport) is an airport in Al Mukalla, Yemen (IATA: RIY, ICAO: OYRN).
Hodeida International Airport
Hodeida International Airport is an airport in Hodeida, Yemen (IATA: HOD, ICAO: OYHD).
Al Hudaydah Governorate
Al Hudaydah (Arabic: الحديدة Al Ḥudaida) is a governorate of Yemen.
Zafar, Yemen
Ẓafār or Dhafar (Ar ظفار) Ðafār (museum: UTM: 435700E, 1571160 N zone 38P, 14°12'N, 44°24'E, deviating slightly from Google Earth) is an ancient Himyarite site situated in Yemen, some 130 km south-south-east of today's capital, Sana'a. Given mention…
Kamaran
Kamaran Island (Arabic: كمران Kamarān) is the largest Yemen-controlled island in the Red Sea. The 108 km2 (42 sq mi) island is 18 km (11 mi) long and 7 km (4.3 mi) wide and is strategically located at the southern end of the Red Sea. It is a "shel…
Jabal al-Tair Island
Jabal al-Tair Island (Jebel Teir, Jabal al-Tayr, Tair Island, Al-Tair Island, Jazirat at-Tair; Arabic: جزيرة جبل الطير Jazīrat Jabal aṭ-Ṭayr, literally, "Bird Mountain Island") is a roughly oval volcanic island northwest of the constricted Bab al-M…
Ibb Governorate
Ibb (Arabic: إب Ibb) is a governorate of Yemen. It is located in the inland south of the country with Ta'izz Governorate to the southwest, Ad Dali' Governorate to the southeast, Dhamar Governorate to the north, and short borders with Al Bayda' Gove…
Dhamar Governorate
Dhamar (Arabic: ذمار Ḏamār), also spelt Thamar, is a governorate of Yemen. It is located to the south and southeast of Sana'a Governorate, to the north of Ibb Governorate, to the east of Al Hudaydah Governorate and to the northwest of Al Bayda' Gov…
Ad Dali' Governorate
Ad Dali' (Arabic: الضالع Aḍ Ḍāli') is a governorate of Yemen.
Sana'a University
Sana'a University (Arabic: جامعة صنعــاء) was established in 1970 as the first and the primary university in the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen), now the Republic of Yemen (see also Aden University). It is located in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, …
Dhamar, Yemen
Dhamar (Arabic: ذمار) is a city in southwestern Yemen.
Zabīd
Zabid (Arabic: زبيد) (also spelled Zebid) is a town with an urban population of around 52,590 persons on Yemen's western coastal plain. The town, named after Wadi Zabid, the wadi (or valley) to its south, is one of the oldest towns in Yemen. It was…
Al Ghaydah
Al Ghaydah (Arabic: الغيضة) is the capital city of Al Mahrah Governorate in southeastern Yemen.
Kaidun meteorite
Kaidun is a meteorite that fell on 3 December 1980 on a Soviet military base near what is now Al-Khuraybah in Yemen.
EgyptAir Flight 763
EgyptAir Flight 763 was an international non-scheduled passenger flight from Cairo, Egypt to Aden, South Yemen. On 19 March 1972, the flight was a McDonnell Douglas DC9-32 registered in Yugoslavia as YU-AHR and operated by the newly renamed EgyptAir.
Taiz Governorate
Taiz (Arabic: تعز Ta'izz) is a governorate of Yemen. The governorate's capital is Taiz, which is the third largest city in Yemen. Other major towns include Al Sawa, Juha and the famous coffee port of Mocha. It has a total population of just over th…
Al Mahwit Governorate
Al Mahwit (Arabic: المحويت Al Maḥwīt) is one of the governorates of Yemen.
Shuqrah
Shuqrah (Shaqrā’, Shuqrā’, Arabic: شُقرة) is a coastal town in southern Yemen.
Ad Dali'
Ad Dali', also spelled Al-Dhale and Al Dhale (Arabic: الضالع), is a capital town of Ad Dali' Governorate, southwestern Yemen.
`Amran
ʿAmrān (Arabic: عمران) is a small city in western central Yemen. It is the capital of the 'Amran Governorate, and was formerly in the Sana'a Governorate. It is located 52.9 kilometres (32.9 mi) by road northwest of the Yemeni capital of Sana'a.
Samhah
Samhah (Arabic: سمحة) is an inhabited island of the Socotra archipelago, between the main island of Socotra, and Somalia. Like the whole group, it belongs to Yemen, specifically to Hadhramaut Governorate. Somalia also claims this Island. It measure…
National Museum of Yemen
The National Museum of Yemen in Sana'a, Yemen, was founded in 1971 in Dar al-Shukr (Palace of Gratefulness) which is one of the Yemeni Imam Palaces. It is located near Qubbat al-Mutawakkil Mosque dome in Al-Tahreer Square in the city center. deze pa…
2008 Bin Salman Mosque bombing
The 2008 Bin Salman Mosque bombing was a bombing on 2 May 2008 at the Bin Salman Mosque in Sa'dah, Yemen, which killed 15 and injured 55. Local officials believed the bomb was hidden in a car or a motorcycle.
Ash Shihr
Ash-Shihr (Arabic: الشحر) (transliteration al-Shiḥr) is a coastal town in Hadhramaut, southern Yemen. It is located at around (14°45′39″N49°36′25″E).
Timna
Timna (Arabic,تمنة) is an ancient city in Yemen, the capital of the Qataban kingdom; it is distinct from a city in Southern Israel that shares the same name.
Darsah
Darsah (Arabic: درسة) is an uninhabited island in the Socotra Archipelago of Yemen.
Beihan
Beihan (Arabic: بيحان), also known as Bayhan al Qisab (Arabic: بيحان القصاب), is a town in western Yemen.
Tawahi (Aden)
Tawahi or (Arabic: التواهي) is a city district in the city of Aden, located in the Aden Governorate in Yemen.
Sawad
Sawad was the name used in early Islamic times (7th–12th centuries) for the southern Iraq. It means "black land" and refers to the stark contrast between the alluvial plain of Mesopotamia and the Arabian desert.