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South Yemen

1967–1990 state in Western Asia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, was a country in South Arabia that existed in what is now southeast Yemen from 1967 until its unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 1990. The sole communist state in the Middle East and the Arab world, it comprised the southern and eastern governorates of the present-day Republic of Yemen, including the islands of Perim, Kamaran, and the Socotra Archipelago. It shared ill-defined and often disputed borders with the Yemen Arab Republic to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the east. Its capital and largest city was Aden.

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The public source identifies “South Yemen” as 1967–1990 state in Western Asia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around South, Yemen and state.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with South, Yemen and state providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1967 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “South Yemen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.