Map of Yemen

Yemen is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 15.0° N, 48.0° E. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Oman and Saudi Arabia — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Yemen is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Yemen shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Yemen covers about 527,968 km² (203,850 sq mi). That makes it the 49th-largest country in the world by area and the 12th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 37 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 32,684,503, the 48th-largest in the world and the 19th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Yemen has an average population density of about 62 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 19th by population and 12th by area.

The seat of government is Sana'a, and the official currency is the Yemeni rial (YER, ﷼), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Yemen carries the ISO country codes YE and YEM, dials on the international calling code +967 and uses the .ye internet domain.

Yemen shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Saudi Arabia (capital Riyadh, about 35,300,280 people) and Oman (capital Muscat, about 5,343,630 people).

By area, Yemen is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 15.0° N, 48.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Yemen within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Sana'a. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Yemen lies about 1,665 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Yemen keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Yemeni rial (YER, ﷼).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +967 and websites commonly use the .ye internet domain.

In short, Yemen is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Sana'a. Yemen has a population of about 32,684,503 and covers around 527,968 km² (203,850 sq mi), ranking it 48th in the world by population and 49th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Yemen.

The flag of Yemen is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and black.

The flag of Yemen is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.