Yemen or (officially: the Republic of Yemen), is an Arab country located in the southwest of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. Its area is about 555,000 square kilometers, and its population is 30,411,000 people, according to the population projection for the year 2020.
Yemen is bordered on the north by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and on the east by the Sultanate of Oman, and has a southern coast on the Arabian Sea and a western coast on the Red Sea. Yemen has more than two hundred islands in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, the largest of which are the islands of Socotra and Hanish. The Yemeni constitution states that the state is democratic, endorses partisan and political pluralism, adopts a free economic system, adheres to international covenants and covenants stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and that Islamic law is the source of all legislation. Yemen is a member of the League of Arab States, the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the World Trade Organization.