The Republic of Yemen, abbreviated as Yemen. Located at the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. It covers an area of 528,000 square kilometers and has a population of about 33 million.
1. The Yemen region has a long cultural history dating back more than 3,000 years and is one of the cradles of ancient civilizations in the Arab world.
2. Older people should have the impression that there were once two countries called Yemen, referred to as North and South Yemen for short. It wasn't until 1990 that the two Yemen merged into what is now Yemen.
3. Yemen, as one of the cradles of Arab civilization, is mostly Arab despite its proximity to Africa.
4. Yemen is a country that has been self-reliant since ancient times, having been colonized by Portugal and the British, but due to the ongoing struggle, Yemen became the first country in the Arab world to free itself from colonial rule.
5. Yemen is now a very backward country, but it has also been a wide country in history, with ports and rich oil and gas resources.
6. Yemen became independent very early and was the first republic to be established, and was the only republic in the Arab world.
7. Most of the Yemeni flags you see are hung horizontally, but Yemeni law stipulates that the flag should be hung vertically.
8. The original South Yemen, whose full name was the Democratic People's Republic of Yemen, was a socialist country.
9. There is a special island in Yemen called "Socotra". Due to its remote location, this small island has many flora and fauna that are unique to this area, and is known as the most alien-like place in the world.
10. Once the most famous pirates in the world were Somali pirates. Yemen is very close to Somalia, and many people are greedy for the profits of Somali pirates, so they pretend to be Somali pirates to rob everywhere.
11.Yemen as a whole is relatively open, allowing women to join the army since 2006.
12. The name Mocha comes from Yemen. There is a port in Yemen called Muja, this port used to be a distribution center for coffee beans, because the coffee beans exported here are of good quality, with chocolate-like quality, so foreign countries call coffee containing chocolate mocha.
13. There is a chewable product in Yemen called "khat", which they call kat and is actually a type of marijuana. Most men and half of all women in Yemen enjoy chewing khat.
14. Due to the perennial war and arid climate, Yemen has a poor agricultural foundation, and half of the country's grain has to be imported from abroad.
15. Yemen has a tropical desert and savannah climate, and there is not a single river in the whole country. They rely mainly on groundwater for water. Due to the rapid population and the needs of the agro-industrial sector, the groundwater has been drained and many places are now flooded with seawater into saline land.
16. "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Operation Red Sea", which were very popular in previous years, were based on the Yemeni evacuation operation at the end of March 2015.
17. The legal capital of Yemen was Sana'a, but the capital was occupied by the rebels and forced to move the capital to Aden.
18. In 2020, Yemen experienced a plague of locusts that almost swept the entire country.
19. As mentioned earlier, Yemen is extremely short of water, but 40% of its fresh water is used to irrigate the country.
20. Yemeni men are generally 15 years old, they wear belts and swords, and they wear silver rings on their hands.
21. The staple food that Yemenis eat most often is the Arabic flatbread that has been examined. It is mainly made with cornmeal, sorghum flour and flour.
22. In Yemen, like Oman, the highest-end dish is roasted camel lamb, which is mainly used to entertain distinguished guests.
23. There are more than 160 tribes in Yemen, and if there is a dispute between the two tribes, they will kill cattle to reconcile.
24. Because of the lack of water, babies in some tribes in Yemen are rarely given water after birth. Let him drink only breast milk and some water boiled with coffee beans, with the aim of adapting the child to the arid environment.
25. Yemen is still at war. #Tell the Truth#
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