Yemen Republic
Also known as North Yemen
former country
Key facts
- Capital and largest city
- Sanaa
- Official languages
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam (official, predominantly Zaydi Shia and Shafi'i Sunni Islam )
- Demonym
- Yemeni
- Government
- Unitary Islamic parliamentary republic under a Nasserist provisional military junta (1962–1967, 1974–1978) under a one-party authoritarian dictatorship (1978–1990)
- 1962 1967 first
- Abdullah al-Sallal
- 1967 1974
- Abdul Rahman al-Eryani
- 1974 1977
- Ibrahim al-Hamdi
- 1977 1978
- Ahmad al-Ghashmi
- 1978 1990 last
- Ali Abdullah Saleh
- 1962 1963 first
- Abdullah al-Sallal
- 1983 1990 last
Article
Today part ofYemen
The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; Arabic: الجمهورية العربية اليمنية al-Jumhūriyyah al-‘arabiyyah al-Yamaniyyah), also known as Yemen (Sanaʽa) and commonly referred to as North Yemen, was a country that existed from 1962 until its unification with the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (commonly known as South Yemen) in 1990, in the northwestern part of what is now Yemen. Its capital was Sana'a. It bordered South Yemen to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the north and the Red Sea to the west, sharing maritime borders with Djibouti and the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.