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If It Were My Home

 

The headlines

tell a lot about the crisis in Yemen:

internal strife,

evacuations of international aid workers,

Saudi Arabian airstrikes.

 

But you may have one very basic question

that you can't easily find an answer for:

How big is Yemen, anyway?

 

You can look at maps

and check out Wikipedia

but wouldn't it be great

to just to slap an outline of Yemen

on top of a map of the United States

to get a sense of its size?

 

IfItWereMyHome.com

lets you do just that.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/04/10/
398767056/whats-bigger-yemen-or-virginia-theres-an-app-for-that

 

 

https://www.ifitweremyhome.com/   

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/04/10/
398767056/whats-bigger-yemen-or-virginia-theres-an-app-for-that

 

 

 

 

 

Related

 

 

The Guardian > In 30 seconds        UK

In 30 seconds

is a series of short explainers on global issues

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/
in-30-seconds

 

 

 

 

NPR > World        USA

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/world/

 

 

 

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

 

https://www.ohchr.org/en/resources/
educators/human-rights-education-training/universal-declaration-human-rights-1948

 

 

 

 

 

International criminal court    ICC

 

https://www.theguardian.com/law/
international-criminal-court

 

 

 

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