Flag of Yemen

🎨 What the flag means

Yemen's flag has three stripes: red, white and black. It was adopted on 22 May 1990, the day North and South Yemen joined into one country. Officially, red stands for unity and those who gave their lives, white for a bright future, and black for the dark past.

📊 Quick facts

👥 Population

34.4 million (2026)

🏙️ Capital

Sana'a3 million people (2015)

🗣️ Main language

Arabic

✨ 3 fun facts

1. Yemen was once the world's main source of coffee, which was shipped from the port of Mokha.
2. On Yemen's Socotra islands, about a third of the plants grow nowhere else, including the umbrella-shaped dragon's blood tree.
3. The old town of Shibam has tall mudbrick tower houses and is nicknamed the "Manhattan of the Desert".