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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
70. Yemen
verfasst von : C. J. Campbell
Erschienen in: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion
Verlag: Springer New York
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Abstract
Yemen covers an area of 530,000 km2 on the southern margin of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. A coastal strip gives way to a high mountainous massif rising to almost 4,000 m, which in turn passes into the deserts of the Rub’ al-Khali to the northeast. Monsoon rains from the Indian Ocean have given fertile soils along the coastal strip and the flanks of the massif, where most of the population, amounting to 24 million, live. The barren interior is sparsely populated. The capital is Sana’a in the northwest, but Aden on the south coast is the commercial centre, having been a coaling station in earlier years for shipping to the East.