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title: "Yemen — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Yemen: capital Sanaa, area 527,968 km², population 41,773,878 (2025), currency Yemeni rial. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/yemen/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Yemen

**Yemen: Capital Sanaa**

527,968 km² · 41,773,878 people (2025) · Yemeni rial

Socotra, 350 km off the mainland, has been isolated long enough that about a third of its plants exist nowhere else, including the dragon's blood tree. Shibam in the Hadhramaut is a walled town of 16th-century mud-brick tower blocks five to eleven storeys high, sometimes called the oldest skyscraper city.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Sanaa
- **Area:** 527,968 km² — 203,850 sq mi
- **Population:** 41,773,878 (2025)
- **Density:** 79.1 people per km²
- **Currency:** Yemeni rial (YER, ﷼)
- **Official language:** Arabic
- **Time zone:** UTC+03:00
- **Calling code:** +967
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** YE · YEM
- **Continent:** Asia

## How it compares

- **By area:** 51 of 200
- **By population:** 37 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Botswana | 581,730 | 2,562,122 |
| Kenya | 580,367 | 57,532,493 |
| Yemen ← | 527,968 | 41,773,878 |
| Thailand | 513,120 | 71,619,863 |
| Spain | 505,370 | 49,355,143 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Yemen?

Sanaa

### What currency does Yemen use?

The Yemeni rial (YER).

### How big is Yemen?

527,968 km², or 203,850 square miles — 51 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Yemen drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Botswana](https://atoneplace.net/country/botswana/)
- [Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country/kenya/)
- [Thailand](https://atoneplace.net/country/thailand/)
- [Spain](https://atoneplace.net/country/spain/)
- [India](https://atoneplace.net/country/india/)
- [China](https://atoneplace.net/country/china/)
- [Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/indonesia/)
- [Pakistan](https://atoneplace.net/country/pakistan/)
- [Bangladesh](https://atoneplace.net/country/bangladesh/)
- [Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country/japan/)
- [Philippines](https://atoneplace.net/country/philippines/)
- [Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country/vietnam/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]