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  1. Yemeni island in the Indian Ocean; capital
  2. Tamridah; area 3,500 sq km/1,351 sq mi. Under
  3. British protection from 1886, it became part
  4. of South Yemen 1967 and is used as a military
  5. base by the USSR.
  6.