Talk:Aden

Main Sites

There is a lack of information regarding the "Main Sites." Adding to this will help understand the history and culture within Aden.

The Rimbaud House: There is an interesting journal about The Rimbaud House and its history. It also talks about its controversy being French in a once British colonized area. More details on the "main sites" would be helpful, but also a whole new page could be added on The Rimbaud House alone.

Kelsietravers (talk) 23:36, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

The beaches of Aden and Little Aden: This should go over location, details, and tourism more in depth.

The Palace of the Sultanate of Lahej/National Museum: Not sure what this is or why it has two different names. Should be both expanded and hyperlinked. Kelsietravers (talk) 01:44, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

I added information to the above three main sites and hyperlinks when I could. The Rimbaud House has an interesting symbolic meaning that could be expanded on more. In addition, detailed information about beaches and locations were difficult to find. However, I added some general information using sources that will hopefully help make sense of these sites a bit more. "Crown Library" illustrated is not listed with any info. - Davidships (talk) 20:15, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

References

"City"

I'm confused about the figures in the infobox. On Yemens main page it speaks to the country being divided into governorates, which are then divided into districts, which are further subdivided into, then into subdistricts, and then into villages. I only see one governorate-level municipality mentioned (Al-Asemah). On the Aden Governorate page, it doesn't mention "Aden" as a subdvision, only the districts of the governorate. So what is the area and population figure given in the infobox for?

If Aden is not a "city" in the sense of a defined local government area with borders apart from that of the governorate, that needs to be made explicitly clear. If the information in the infobox is measuring some statistical "city" of Aden, then the figures given should be under the name or "urban area" or "settlement" or something, not "city." This goes for every "city" in Yemen if these aren't municipal corporations/local government areas. --Criticalthinker (talk) 04:43, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Nothing about etymology of the name

Typically there's an "Etymology" section before History and Geography and such. BetweenCupsOfTea (talk) 07:07, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Last eruption

I came here looking for the approximate date of the last eruption of that volcano that the city sits in. (Jebel Shamsan) FatBear1 (talk) 16:38, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Notable people

@Wabbit98: A "Notable people" section was added in July 2024, with just one entry. Category:People from Aden has 39 listed, and a further five in a subcat. To add all of them might be considered disproportionate. There is also the question of whether all those people are connected to the city of Aden (the subject of this article) or elsewhere in the wider Aden Region and earlier political territories of the same generic name, eg Aden Colony, State of Aden or Aden Protectorate. I see that many other nearby major cities' articles do not have such a section, but carry this content only in categories, eg Category:People from Sanaa and Category:People from Jeddah; on the other had, there is a selection of eight notable people in Taiz from the twenty in Category:People from Taiz.

If the section is to be retained, what should be the selection criteria? - Davidships (talk) 11:56, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

psst.. List of Yemenis Abo Yemen✉ 12:49, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

as for the criteria that should be used, i support removing anyone who isn't from the actual city (the term city should change per Talk:Aden#"City") of aden regardless of the time period i.e. british yemen, south yemen, united yemen, etc.

p.s. the Aden Protectorate did not include THE Aden as it was part of the Aden Colony Abo Yemen✉ 12:55, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

@Donnelt pinging you because you added Eddie Izzard to that section. Also I don't think that Eddie Izzard is a notable person in Aden Abo Yemen✉ 16:52, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Should there be a pronunciation key added to this article? Cause I keep pronouncing it as "A Den", but when I Googled it, it said "Aydin". NintendoTTTEfan2005 (talk) 19:50, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

"Aydin" is the british english pronounciation. Feel free to add that if you want to. Ill add a voice recording of the city's arabic name later 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 04:42, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks NintendoTTTEfan2005 (talk) 04:43, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

"De facto captital of Yemen since 2014"

Considering how the STC held the city from 2018 to 2026 (and thus "since 2014" isn't exactly accurate), it should probably read something more like this:

"After the Houthi takeover of Sanaa, Aden became the de facto capital of the internationally-recognized PLC until the city's seizure by separatists of the STC, who controlled it until the PLC retook the city in 2026." QuisEstJoe (talk) 19:43, 17 January 2026 (UTC)