Yemeni unification

Unification of Yemen
Part of the end of the Cold War
	Ali Abdullah Saleh (President of the Yemen Arab Republic) and Ali Salem al-Beidh (President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen) raising the new flag of their newly unified country
Native name	al-waḥda al-Yamaniyya الوحدة اليمنية
Date	22 May 1990
Location	Yemen Arab Republic; People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
Cause	Arab nationalism; First Yemenite War; Second Yemenite War; Discovery of Ṣāfer oilfield in Shabwah in the south and Marib in the north; South Yemeni crisis; Dissolution of the Soviet Union;
Outcome	Unification of Yemen North's capital Sanaa becomes the capital of unified Yemen; The Yemeni rial becomes the official currency of unified Yemen; The South's "United Republic" became the country's national anthem;

The Yemeni unification took place on 22 May 1990, when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) and the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) united, forming the Republic of Yemen.