Also known as People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Yemen (Aden), Southern Yemen, People's Republic of Southern Yemen, Democratic Yemen
1967–1990 state in Western Asia
South Yemen was an independent country that existed from 1967 to 1990 in the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula, located along the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. Its existence matters historically because it represented a period of political division in the Yemen region before the country was reunified in 1990.
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Today part ofYemen ISO 3166-1 = YD ISO 3166-3 = YDYE
South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, was a country in South Arabia that existed in what is now southeast Yemen from 1967 until its unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 1990. The sole communist state in the Middle East and the Arab world, it comprised the southern and eastern governorates of the present-day Republic of Yemen, including the islands of Perim, Kamaran, and the Socotra Archipelago. It bordered the Yemen Arab Republic to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the east, the Arabian Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Aden to the south. Its capital and largest city was Aden.
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