Yemen

Essential Facts

• Capital: Sana'a
• Official Language: Arabic
• Religion: Islam
• Demonym: Yemeni
• Semi-Presidential Government

More Essentials

• President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi--Prime Min Khaled Bahah
• Area: 203,796 sq mi (50th) 
• Population: 23,833,000 (48th)
• Density: 115.7 per sq mi (160th)
• Currency: Yemeni Rial

Industries

• Petroleum oils, oils from bituminous minerals, crude
• Natural gas, liquefied
• Food Processing
• Handicrafts

Folk Music

• Usually performed in the home
• Ahmed Fathey
• Osama al Attar
• Hard to Find

Rap Music

• Existed as Early as 2005
• Popular in 2008
• Hajaj Abdulqawi Masaed
• His song Walls Talk

Speaking of Rap Music....

• Here's a little history.
• Back in 1990, the established with the merger. 
• Previously independent from the Ottoman Emprrrr
• That was 1918. Something like that happened again 3 years before the 
• seventiiiiiiiiiies

Geography

• More than two times larger than the state of Wy'om'n
• Shorter than it's wide, RIP Gary Coleman
• Mostly desert. All hot and humidddd
• Temperate in the western mountains, which the seasonal monsoons
• affectedddd

Water Shortage

• 7th most "water-stressed"
• Limited availability
• Exacerbated by the widespread use of qat
• "And it just don't get no better."

Bibliography

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen