#Yemen # UNESCO #world heritage sites

#Al Hudaydah governorate [capital = Al Hudaydah]

#Historic Town of #Zabid
# A thick wall surrounds Zabīd. Its Great Mosque, once the site of a well-known Shāfiʿī madrasah, is prominent.

#Sana'a governorate [capital = Sana'a]

#Old City of #Sana'a
# Like an elaborate work of art in an expansive open-air museum, more than 6,000 houses built before the eleventh century lie within the old city walls, tucked close together and connected by a comprehensive network of narrow streets and alleyways.

#Marib governorate [capital = Marib]

#Ancient Kingdom of #Saba see #detail
# The Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba, Marib, is a serial property comprising seven archaeological sites that bear witness to the rich Kingdom of Saba and its architectural, aesthetic and technological achievements from the 1st millennium BCE to the arrival of Islam around 630 CE.

#Hadramaut governorate [capital = Al Mukalla]

#Old Walled City of #Shibam
# Surrounded by a fortified wall, the 16th-century city of Shibam is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction. Its impressive tower-like structures rise out of the cliff and have given the city the nickname of ‘the Manhattan of the desert’.

#Archipelago of #Socotra
# Socotra is of particular importance to the Horn of Africa’s biodiversity hotspot and, as one of the most biodiversity rich and distinct islands in the world, has been termed the “Galápagos of the Indian Ocean”.