Yemen

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Yemen, Western Asia

latitude: 15.7, longitude: 47

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Yemen is a country in Western Asia at latitude 15°42′00.00″ North, longitude 47°00′00.00″ East.

The official language in Yemen is Arabic.

Road tagging

Road classification

Key	Value	Comment
highway	motorway	Do NOT use in Yemen, there isn't any Yemeni equivalent.
highway	trunk	The most important roads in the country's system. Includes all M100s, M45s and M55s international roads (described in Mashreq international road) and roads linking cities. Does not need to be a divided highway, or needs to be paved.
highway	primary	The next most important roads in the country's system. (Often link larger towns like governorate admin centres.)
highway	secondary	The next most important roads in the country's system. (Often link towns and district admin centres.)
highway	tertiary	The next most important roads in the country's system. (Often link smaller towns and villages)
highway	unclassified	The least important through roads in the country's system – i.e. minor roads of a lower classification than tertiary, but which serve a purpose other than access to properties. (Often link villages and hamlets.) may be unpaved roads.
highway	residential	Roads which serve as an access to housing, without function of connecting settlements. Often lined with housing.
highway	service	For access roads to, or within an industrial estate, camp site, business park, car park etc. Can be used in conjunction with `service=` to indicate the type of usage and with `access=` to indicate who can use it and in what circumstances.

Names

Arabic is the default tag language, so use name=صنعاء for name=*. For the English name, use name:en=Sanaa, and for the Arabic name use name:ar=صنعاء.

Place tagging

Administratively declared places

Settlement	admin_level=	Element	Description	Comments
`place=state`	4		Used for governorates	Relations are preferred.
`place=district`	6		Used for districts.

place=province, place=county and place=municipality should not be used in Yemen.

place=region should be used only for geographic or historical areas with no clear boundary.

Populated settlements

Settlement	Local Name	Description	Comments
`place=city`	مدينة كبيرة	A municipality having a population of at least 100,000 people. A governorate center which having a population at least 40,0000. A governorate center which having a port or airport. A municipality having a population of at least 40,000 and having a port or airport.	Like Sana'a, Aden, Taiz...
`place=town`	مدينة	A governorate center which is not a city. A district center. A municipality having a population of at least 5,000 people. A port or border checkpoint contains Customs authority.
`place=village`	قرية	A municipality having a population less then 5,000 people, larger than an hamlet, and with a significant infrastructure.
`place=hamlet`	محلة	A rural community less than 100-200 inhabitants, few infrastructure except a public access road or path.
`place=isolated_dwelling`	محلة	A rural named place with a single inhabited building or farm, almost no infrastructure except a nearby road or a private access path.

Population

The population is taken from the data of the last census conducted on 17-12-2004 and its data is published on the website of the Central Statistical Organisation ([cso-yemen.com]), and the reference is added to the population unit number as follows:

source:population=YCSO2004:Population Unit Number

Where the population unit number consists of: Governorate No. - District No. - Sub-district No. - Village/Town No.

Import from GEOnet Names Server (GNS) database status

Everything in the GNS database except duplicates or incorrect items were imported until 16-01-2019, and the following data were tagged in the import:

GNS:id=UFI number
GNS:dsg_code=DSG field
GNS:dsg_name=The name of the DSG field (feature name)