🌍 Countries of the world 🕌 Arab countries

Yemen

📖 In short

Yemen is an Arab country in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, facing the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. Its capital is Sanaa. It used to be called “Happy Arabia” for its green mountains and fertile land.

🤩 Did you know?

Yemen's capital is Sanaa.
Yemen was once famous for trading frankincense, incense and coffee.
A kind of coffee is called “mocha” after the Yemeni port of Mokha.
The currency is the Yemeni rial.

🗂️ Fact file

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🌟 Ancient civilizations

Yemen had ancient kingdoms like Saba (Sheba) and Himyar, and stories tell of Bilqis, the Queen of Sheba. Its people built the great Marib Dam thousands of years ago to store rainwater.

🔍 Mud skyscrapers

In Shibam there are tall mud houses packed close together, some eight stories high, built hundreds of years ago, so it's called “the Manhattan of the desert”.

💡 Old Sanaa

The houses of Old Sanaa are decorated with beautiful white patterns around the windows, and their top windows are colored glass, so they look like cakes.