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Joseph Edwards Period 1 Global Studies 5/7/09 [|Blue Ridge School]

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Yemen

1.)**Is this country located in the Eastern or Western Hemisphere?** - Eastern hemisphere

2.)**On what continent is this country located?** -Europe

3.)**What is the population of this country?** - 23,822,783

4.) **What is the name of the capital city?** -Sanaa

5.) **Does this country have any mountains? If so, name them**. - Yes, Haraz Mountains, Sarawat Mountains

6.) **List up to three bodies of water in this country**. -Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, Bab el Mandeb

7.) **What product are imports? Include three products and pictures of each.** -Food and live animals, machinery and equipment, chemicals

8.) **What products are exports? Include three products and pictures of each.** -Crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish

9.) **What is the official language?** -Arabic

10.) **What is the official language?** -Muslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shia), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu

11.)**What are two current issues of this country?** -Saudi Arabia has reinforced the concert barriers so they could keep out people from Yemen -Refugees are escape to Yemen for religious freedom increasing the population

12.)   **Chose three places that you would like to visit in your lifetime**. - Thula, Al-Djanag, Zabid

13.) **list 4 important dates for your country?** -22 May 1990, 30 November 1967, 16 May 1991 February 2001

14.) **List 3 current leaders of your country, and the dates of their elections.** - Abdal Malik al-MAKHLAFI, Abdul-Kader BAJAMMAL, Mohammed Abdullah AL-YADOUMI

15.)**How is this country different than the United States?** - Yemen is different from the United States in many ways. Yemen is mostly desert and the U.S. isnt. Also they have a lower population and birth rate. But other than that i believe that the are alike. Zabid Al-Djanag Thula

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