Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Sana'a
- Region
- Asia, Western Asia
- Population
- 41,773,878 (2025)
- Area
- 527,970 km²
- Currency
- Yemeni rial (YER)
- Languages
- Arabic
- Calling code
- +967
- Internet domain
- .ye
- ISO codes
- YE, YEM, 887
- Time zone
- UTC+3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
Land and position
Yemen covers about 527,970 square kilometres. By area it ranks 51st among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than France and a little larger than Thailand. It shares a land border with 2 neighbours: Oman, Saudi Arabia. Its centre lies at about 15° north, 48° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 41.8 million people live in Yemen (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 37th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.51 percent of the world's people. On average there are 79 people to each square kilometre. About 37 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 69 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Arabic. A person from Yemen is called Yemeni.
Money and economy
The currency is the Yemeni rial (code YER, symbol ﷼). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 21.6 billion (2018), which is about US$ 634 for each person (2018).
Time
Yemen uses one time zone, UTC+3:00 (Asia/Aden). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Sanaa | 1,937,451 |
| Aden | 1,079,670 |
| Taiz | 940,600 |
| Ibb | 771,514 |
| Al Ḩudaydah | 734,699 |
| Mukalla | 594,951 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Western Asia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.