• Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is located in West Asia, mainly in southern Arabia.
• Borders include Saudi Arabia (north), Oman (northeast), Arabian Sea (east), Gulf of Aden (south), and Red Sea (west).
• Approximately 455,503 square kilometers in area and has a coastline of about 2,000 kilometers.

• Sanaa is the constitutional capital and largest city.
• Estimated population is 34.7 million, mostly Arab Muslims, likely larger than Saudi Arabia's population.
• Yemeni membership in various organizations includes the Arab League and the United Nations.

• Yemen's history spans over 7,000 years with influential kingdoms like the Sabaeans and Himyarite Kingdom.
• Introduced to Christianity in the fourth century, and Islam spread rapidly from the seventh century.
• The Kingdom of Yemen emerged post-World War I, with later formation of the Yemen Arab Republic and People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
• Unified in 1990 under Ali Abdullah Saleh, who resigned in 2012.

• Since 2011, Yemen faces a political crisis, leading to civil war by 2015 involving multiple governing entities.
• Severe humanitarian crisis affecting approximately 24 million, or 75% of the population.
• Yemen ranks poorly on various indices, including the Fragile States Index and Global Hunger Index, facing extreme sustainable development challenges.

List of newspapers published in Yemen.