Aden

:This article is about the port city of Aden in Yemen. For other uses, see Aden (disambiguation).

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Aden (Arabic: ??? ) is a city in Yemen, 105 miles (170 kilometers) East of Bab-el-Mandeb. It is a natural port, built on an old volcanic peninsula and first used by the ancient Kingdom of Awsan between the 5th and 7th centuries BC. Aden has a population of about 398,399 http://www.bartleby.com/65/ad/Aden.html and is located at .

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Aden consists of a number of small towns: the port city, the industrial city known as Little Aden with its large oil refinery, and Madinat ash-Sha'b, the centre of government. Two suburbs, Khormaksar and Sheikh Othman, lie north of the old city, with the international airport situated between them. The oil refinery and Tanker port of Little Aden were operated by British Petroleum (now Beyond Petroleum)

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It was the capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen until that country's unification with the Yemen Arab Republic when it was declared a free trade zone. It gives its name to the Gulf of Aden.

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Bab-el-Mandeb: The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic for "the gate of tears") is the strait separating the continents of Asia (Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula) and Africa (Djibouti, north of Somalia on the Horn of Africa), connecting the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Aden)....