Worth knowing
Yemen
By the late 1400s, Sufi mystics in Yemen were drinking coffee to stay alert through their night prayers. Until the end of the 1600s, the port of Mocha was the world's only gateway for coffee.
Where its story happens
Mocha, at 13.32°N, 43.25°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Yemen
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Yemen, at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, south of Saudi Arabia. See Yemen on a map.
- The Queen of Sheba is said to have ruled here, and its capital is Sanaa.
- Dragon's blood trees, shaped like umbrellas and named for their red sap, grow on its island of Socotra.
- One of its desert towns is packed with mud-brick towers up to eleven storeys high: the Manhattan of the Desert.
- Mocha coffee is named after one of its ports, once the gateway for almost all the world's coffee.