North Yemen
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North Yemen is a term used to describe the Kingdom of Yemen (1918-1962), the Yemen Arab Republic (1962-1990), and the regimes that preceded them and exercised sovereignty over that region of Yemen. located in the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula, The area of the region is 195,000 square kilometers, it used to have a population of about thirteen million people prior to the Yemeni unification, and was bordered to the north by Saudi Arabia, to the south and east by South Yemen, to the west by the Red Sea, and to Bab al-Mandab in the southwest. None of the countries that were established within these borders took the name North Yemen as their official name, and the name was used only after the declaration of the Federation of South Arabia in 1962, and then the People's Republic of Southern Yemen in 1967.
See also
[edit]- South Yemen, a state from 1967 to 1990 made up of the southern and eastern parts of present-day Yemen
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