Yemen
V・T・E 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.
Tag roads
Road classification
| Key | Value | Comment | Rendering | Photo! |
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| highway | motorway | NOT be used in Yemen, There isn't any way in Yemen match motorway requirement |  |
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| highway | trunk | The most important roads in a country's system. Includes All M100, M45 and M55 international roads (described in Mashreq international road) and roads links cities. Need not necessarily be a divided highway. And must be paved. |  |
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| highway | primary | The next most important roads in a country's system. (Often link larger towns like governorate admin centres.) |  |
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| highway | secondary | The next most important roads in a country's system. (Often link towns and district admin centres .) |  |
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| highway | tertiary | The next most important roads in a country's system. (Often link smaller towns and villages) |  |
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| highway | unclassified | The least important through roads in a 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. |
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| highway | residential | Roads which serve as an access to housing, without function of connecting settlements. Often lined with housing. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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Tag Names
Arabic is the default tag language so use: name=صنعاء for default name. For english name use name:en=Sanaa. And also for for Arabic name use: name:ar=صنعاء.
Tag places
Administratively declared places
| Settlement | admin_level= | Element | Description | Comments |
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| place=state | 4 |   |
Use for governorates Mohafzat المحافظات | Relation is preferred |
| place=district | 6 | |
Use for districts Modyryat المديريات |
Tags: province, county and municipality Should not used in Yemen.
Tag: Region: Should be used only for geographic or historical areas with no clear boundary.
Populated settlements
| Settlement | Local Name | Element | Description | Comments |
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| place=city | مدينة كبيرة | |
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Like Sana'a, Aden, Taiz... |
| place=town | مدينة | |
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| 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 are 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. - SubDistrict No. - Village/Town Number
Import from GEOnet Names Server (GNS) database status
All GNS database data except duplicate or incorrect items were imported up to 16-01-2019, and the following data was tagged in the import:
GNS:id=ufi number
GNS:dsg_code=dsg feild
GNS:dsg_name=The name of the dsg field (feature name
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