Yemen is an arid country on the Arabian Peninsula. It is rarely visited by tourists, unless the most desperate and greedy to unusual impressions. And it is these lands that are one of the most ancient centers of civilization on the planet! So you can be sure – there is something to consider, and you can tell a lot about interesting things about this country.
Yemen does not have an exact boundary, since part of the conditional frontier line passes through the desert, where there are no roadblocks or barbed wire.
A curious fact is that Yemen is the 49th in the world both in terms of area and population. At least for the time being.
In addition to the continental part, Yemen also owns one hundred and twenty islands.
If a foreigner in a foreign passport has a note of a visit to Israel, he will not be allowed to enter Yemen – they simply will not give a visa.
The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana’a, claims to be one of the most ancient cities in the world.
Residents of modern Yemen were building high-rise buildings (up to eight floors) for 500 years ago.
Yemen is one of the world’s major coffee exporters.
There are no trains on the territory of this country. More precisely, there are no railways at all.
As in the Maldives, there is absolutely no alcohol in Yemen. Although in the Maldives it can be bought at least in a hotel, if you are a foreigner, and in Yemen there is no alcohol even in duty-free.
More than half of the population of Yemen is under the age of fifteen, which makes the local population one of the youngest in the world.
Like many other Arab states, the economy of Yemen is mainly based on the extraction and processing of oil.
Two thirds of the population of Yemen live in rural areas.
The overwhelming majority of women in this country are not taught literacy. However, the male population of Yemen with literacy is also not all right.
Yemen is a monotheistic country, more than 99% of the population here profess Islam.
On the Yukon archipelago of Socotra, a dragon tree grows – a tree that is truly amazing, not found anywhere else in the world.
