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<text id=93CT1563>
<title>
Yemen--Geography
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Yemen
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Middle East, along the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea,
south of Saudi Arabia
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 527,970 km2</l>
<l> land area: 527,970 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly larger than twice the size of
Wyoming</l>
</list>
<p>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)
</p>
<p>Land boundaries: total 1,746 km, Oman 288 km, Saudi Arabia
1,458 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 1,906 km
</p>
<list>
<l>Maritime claims:</l>
<l> contiguous zone: 18 nm in the North 24 nm in the South</l>
<l> continental shelf: 200 m depth in the North 200 nm in the
South or to the edge of the continental margin</l>
<l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
<l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
</list>
<p>International disputes: undefined section of boundary with
Saudi Arabia; Administrative Line with Oman; a treaty with Oman
to settle the Yemeni-Omani boundary was ratified in December
1992
</p>
<p>Climate: mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast;
temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon;
extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east
</p>
<p>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
</p>
<p>Natural resources: petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble, small
deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper, fertile soil
in west
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 6%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 30%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 7%</l>
<l> other: 57%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: 3,100 km2 (1989 est.)
</p>
<p>Environment: subject to sand and dust storms in summer;
scarcity of natural freshwater resources; overgrazing; soil
erosion; desertification
</p>
<p>Note: controls Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea
and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes
</p></body></article></text>