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Yemen in British English
(ˈjɛmən)
noun
a republic in SW Arabia, on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden; formed in 1990 from the union of North Yemen and South Yemen; civil war since 2014 when Houthi rebels overran the capital; consists of arid coastal lowlands, rising to fertile upland valleys and mountains in the west and to the Hadhramaut plateau in the SE; the north and east contains part of the Great Sandy Desert. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: Muslim. Currency: riyal. Capital: San'a. Pop: 28 250 420 (2017 est). Area (including territory claimed by Yemen along the undemarcated eastern border with Saudi Arabia): 472 099 sq km (182 278 sq miles)
Official name: Yemen Republic. See also North Yemen, South YemenYemen in American English
(ˈjɛmən)
country on the S tip of the Arabian Peninsula: formed (1990) by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic, or North Yemen, and a country directly east of it, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or South Yemen: 214,287 sq mi (555,001 sq km); pop. 13,000,000; cap. Sana
: official name Republic of Yemen Derived forms
Yemenite (ˈYemenˌite) (ˈjɛmənˌaɪt) adjective, noun or ˈYemeni (ˈjɛməni)
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British English: Yemen /ˈjɛmən/ NOUN
Yemen is a republic in south-west Arabia, on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
- American English: Yemen
- Arabic: اليَمَن
- Brazilian Portuguese: Iêmen
- Chinese: 也门
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- Greek: Υεμένη
- Italian: Yemen
- Japanese: イエメン
- Korean: 예멘
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- Russian: Йемен
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- Thai: ประเทศเยเมน
- Turkish: Yemen
- Ukrainian: Ємен
- Vietnamese: nước Yemen