Yemen

[yem-uhn, yey-muhn]

noun

1. Formerly Southern Yemen. Republic of Yemen, a country in southern Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Sanʿa. Aden.

2. Also called North Yemen. a former country in southwestern Arabia: since 1990 a part of the Republic of Yemen. Sanʿa.

3. Also called South Yemen. a former country in southern Arabia: since 1990 a part of the Republic of Yemen. Aden.

Yemen

/ ˈjɛmən /

noun

1. Official name: Yemen Republic. 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: 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: 25 408 288 (2005 est). Area (including territory claimed by Yemen along the undemarcated eastern border with Saudi Arabia): 472 099 sq km (182 278 sq miles) See also North Yemen South Yemen

Yemen

1. Now the Republic of Yemen. Yemen is at the mouth of the Red Sea, in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the east; formerly divided into North Yemen (the Yemen Arab Republic) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.

Northern Yemen became an independent country after World War I.

The two Yemens were reunified as a result of the democratic reforms of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries in 1990.

Southern Yemen won independence from Britain in 1967 and became the world's only communist Arab state.

Example Sentences

From China and Israel to Yemen and Iran, there’s much the Saudis can do for America.

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The UN Security Council on Friday called for an end to cross-border and maritime attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels and urged member states to beef up efforts to implement an arms embargo against them.

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Amnesty International says it has found evidence of weapons manufactured in Serbia, Russia, China, Turkey, Yemen and UAE being used in Sudan.

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The UAE, nicknamed "Little Sparta" by former US Defense Secretary James Mattis, has deployed its military to conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen.

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The plight of Yemen's schools, as well as reflecting the country's humanitarian crisis, also signals difficulties for future development, hampered by an uneducated population.

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