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Yemen: map and facts

Yemen is in Western Asia. It has about 41.8 million people (2025), the 37th largest population. It covers 527,968 km², the 49th largest by area. That is about 79 people per km². Its highest point is Jabal an-Nabi Shu’aib, at 3,666 m.

Yemen and the land around it. The triangle marks its highest point, Jabal an-Nabi Shu’aib; the circles mark its capitals, Aden and Sanaa. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Population: 41,773,878 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 527,968 km² (2024, World Bank). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 455,000 km².
Capital: Aden, Sanaa
Highest point: Jabal an-Nabi Shu’aib, 3,666 m (Wikidata)
Forest: 1% of the land (2024, World Bank)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

Jabal an-Nabi Shu’aib: 3,666 m (its highest point)
Jabal Jihaf: 2,402 m

Mountain ranges: Hadhramaut.

Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Arabian Peninsula, Rub' al Khali and Tihamah.

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): bare ground 80.6%, open shrubland 10.6%, grassland 6.9%, farmland 1.2%.

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plateaus 40.5%, hills 31.1%, mountains 21.7%, plains 5.7%, high mountains 1%.

Forests covered 1% of its land in 2024, the same as in 1990 (World Bank).

Neighbours

Yemen shares land borders with Oman and Saudi Arabia on this map.

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Sources

India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.

Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.

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