!!!Yemen: Geography
||Location|Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia
||Geographic Coordinates|15 00 N, 48 00 E[{GoogleMap location='15.0,48.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''527,968 sq km\\''land: ''527,968 sq km\\''water: ''0 sq km\\''__note:__ ''includes Perim, Socotra, the former Yemen Arab Republic (YAR or North Yemen), and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen)\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''1,746 km\\''border countries: ''Oman 288 km, Saudi Arabia 1,458 km
||Coastline|1,906 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Arabian Sea 0 m\\''highest point: ''Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb 3,760 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]:  Hadur Shu'ayb  3760 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Jabal an Nabi Shu‘ayb 3666 m; Jabal al Qullah 3233 m; Jabal Shakhab ‘Ammar 3218 m; Jabal ‘Ayban 3187 m; Jabal Rihqah 3082 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] 
||Terrain|narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula
||Natural Hazards|sandstorms and dust storms in summer volcanism: limited volcanic activity; Jebel at Tair (Jabal al-Tair, Jebel Teir, Jabal al-Tayr, Jazirat at-Tair) (elev. 244 m), which forms an island in the Red Sea, erupted in 2007 after awakening from dormancy; other historically active volcanoes include Harra of Arhab, Harras of Dhamar, Harra es-Sawad, and Jebel Zubair, although many of these have not erupted in over a century
||Natural Resource|petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble; small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil in west
||Land Use|''arable land: ''2.2%\\''permanent crops: ''0.55%\\''other: ''97.25% (2011)
||Climate|mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east
||Irrigated Land|6,801 sq km (2004)
||Renewable Water Resources|2.1 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|limited natural freshwater resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|Sana; al-Hudaydah; Taizz; Aden; al-Mukalla\\ __[[Verified]__\\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/Yemen/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes