{"id":29506,"date":"2025-01-18T07:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T01:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29506"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:08:12","slug":"abd-al-kuri-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/abd-al-kuri-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Abd-al-Kuri Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Abd-al-Kuri Island:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an island located about 65 miles <strong>southwest of Socotra in the Indian Ocean<\/strong> and is part of the Socotra Archipelago.<\/li>\n<li>Although the island <strong>belongs to Yemen<\/strong> (the mainland of which is situated more than 320 km to the north), <strong>geographically<\/strong> the island is <strong>closer to the Horn of Africa<\/strong>\u2014it is about 110 km) east-northeast of Cape Gwardafuy (Guardafui), Somalia.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>rocky island<\/strong>, about 35 km long and about 5 km wide, reaches an altitude of more than 700 metres) at <strong>Mount Jebel Saleh, its highest point<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>With <strong>less than 500 residents<\/strong>, Abd al Kuri is sparsely populated with a handful of small settlements extending across the island, all connected by a dirt road.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most of the<\/strong> island\u2019s <strong>inhabitants subsist on fishing<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>One of the <strong>main features<\/strong> of Abd al Kuri <strong>is the endemic and massive Euphorbia abdalkuri,<\/strong> a <strong>unique plant with a toxic and caustic sap<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Which all countries border Yemen?<\/h3>\n<p>Yemen borders Saudi Arabia in the north and Oman in the east. The country also shares maritime borders with the African nations of Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somalia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/mysterious-airstrip-appears-on-yemeni-island-as-houthi-rebel-attacks-threaten-region\/articleshow\/117334549.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abd-al-Kuri Island is an island located about 65 miles southwest of Socotra in the Indian Ocean and is part of the Socotra Archipelago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}