- 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
