What is Aden?
[[Image:Old Town Aden Yemen.jpg|thumb|250px|A view of the old town of Aden, located in the crater of an extinct volcano.]] '''Aden''' ({{lang-ar|عدن}} ''{{transl|ar|ʿAdan}}'') is a [[port]] [[city]] in [[Yemen]]. It is at the [[Red Sea]] (the [[Gulf of Aden]]). About 800,000 people live there. Aden was controlled by the British Empire from 1839 to 1967. {{Commonscat}} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:Cities in Yemen]] [[Category:Port cities in the Arabian Peninsula]] [[Category:Port cities and towns of the Red Sea]] [[Category:Capital cities in Asia]] [[Category:Former national capitals]]