Sanaa

Yemen

Sanaa, officially the Sanaa Municipality, is the capital and largest city of Yemen. The city is the capital of the Sanaa Governorate, but is not part of the governorate, as it forms a separate administrative unit.

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Country: Yemen
Population: 2,008,000
Latitude: 15.36° N
Longitude: 44.2° E

Which way is Sanaa from…

From Paris, Sanaa lies at 120° to the south-east, 5,313 km as the crow flies.

Paris	120° south-east	5,313 km
London	119° south-east	5,611 km
New York	60° north-east	11,114 km
Madrid	107° east	5,383 km
Rome	125° south-east	4,231 km
Montreal	59° north-east	10,813 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	342° north	4,212 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Baghdad, Yerevan and Tbilisi sit almost on Sanaa’s meridian: from Yemen’s capital, all three are due north. From London, aim south-east, at 119°, 5,611 km away, where a flat map would say 135°. From New York the gap reaches 44°: 104°, east, on the map, 60°, north-east, on the compass, via the Mediterranean and Egypt. Asmara lies due west, 565 km away.