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| Land Boudaries Total :
| 1,746 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east .
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| Area Total :
| 527,970 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 527,970 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 0 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly larger than twice the size of Wyoming .
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| Coast Line :
| 1,906 km .
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| Railways Total :
| 67,000 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 67,000 km .
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| Waterways :
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| Ports and Harbors :
| Aden, Al Hudaydah, Al Mukalla, As Salif, Ras Issa, Mocha, Nishtun .
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Shibam is a town in Hadramawt, Yemen with about 7,000 inhabitants. It has been the capital of the Hadramawt Kingdom for periods of times.
Shibam owes its fame to its distinct architecture, which now is on UNESCOs programme to safeguard the human cultural heritage. The houses of Shibam are all made out of mud bricks, but still there are about 500 tower houses, rising 5 to 9 storeys high. While Shibam has existed for around 2,000 years, most of the city's houses come mainly from the 16th century. However over the following centuries, many have been rebuilt over and over again.
Shibam is often called "the oldest skyscraper-city in the world", or "Manhattan of the desert" which is a claim with quite a bit of consistency.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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