Governorates of Yemen

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Governorates of Yemen
محافظات اليمن
  • Also known as:
  • Muhafazah
A clickable map of Yemen exhibiting its 21 governorates. Yemen governorates.png
A clickable map of Yemen exhibiting its 21 governorates.
Category Unitary state
Location Republic of Yemen
Number21 governorates, 1 municipality
Populations(Governorates only): 44,120 (Socotra) – 4,554,443 (Taiz)
Areas(Governorates only): 130 km2 (49 sq mi) (Sana'a) – 99,000 km2 (38,300 sq mi) (Hadhramaut)
Government
Subdivisions

Yemen is divided into twenty-one governorates ( muhafazah ) and one municipality (amanah): [1]

Name in
English 		Name in
Arabic 		CapitalArea
(km2) [2] 		Population
(2013) [3] 		Population
Density		Key Federal
Region
Abyan أبين Zinjibar 21,939658,82430.03 Aden
Aden عدن Aden 1,1141,087,653976.31 Aden
Al Bayda البيضاء Al Bayda 11,193835,68374.65 Sheba
Al Hudaydah الحديدة Al Hudaydah 17,5093,774,914215.56 Tahamah
Al Jawf الجوف Al Hazm 30,620663,14721.67 Sheba
Al Mahrah المهرة Al Ghaydah 122,500400,0003.28 Hadramaut
Al Mahwit المحويت Al Mahwit 2,858732,360256.29 Tahamah
Amanat Al Asimah aأمانة العاصمة Sana'a 1261,174,7679,323.510N/A
'Amran عمران 'Amran 9,5871,123,651117.22 Azal
Dhale الضالع Dhale 4,786602,613125.94 Aden
Dhamar ذمار Dhamar 10,4951,697,067161.711 Azal
Hadramaut حضرموت Mukalla 191,7371,329,0856.912 Hadramaut
Hajjah حجة Hajjah 10,1411,887,213186.013 Tahamah
Ibb إب Ibb 6,4843,911,070603.114 Al Janad
Lahij لحج Lahij 15,210926,29160.515 Aden
Ma'rib مأرب Ma'rib 20,023504,69625.216 Sheba
Raymah ريمة Al-Jabin 3,442502,505145.917 Tahamah
Sa'dah صعدة Sa'dah 15,022987,66365.718 Azal
Sana'a صنعاء Sana'a 15,0522,279,665151.419 Azal
Shabwah شبوة Ataq 47,728651,50913.620 Hadramaut
Socotra Archipelago bمحافظة أرخبيل سقطرى Hadibu 2,35960,00040.922 Hadramaut
Taiz تعز Taiz 12,6054,554,443361.321 Al Janad
Yemenاليَمَن Sana'a 528,07630,109,22557.0

Notes:
a - Also known as Sanaa City, it is not part of any federal region
b - Socotra Governorate was created in December 2013 from parts of the Hadhramaut Governorate, data included there

The governorates are subdivided into 333 districts (muderiah), which are subdivided into 1,996 sub-districts, and then into 40,793 villages and 88,817 sub villages (as of 2013). [3]

Before 1990, Yemen existed as two separate entities. South Yemen consisted of modern Aden, Abyan, Al Mahrah, Dhale, Hadramaut, Socotra, Lahij, and Shabwah Governorates, while the rest made up North Yemen. For more information, see Historic Governorates of Yemen.

See also

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References

  1. ↑ منصور, رانيا (21 October 2017). "Yemeni Governorates". موسوعة المحيط (in Arabic). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  2. ↑ ctv.ca Yemen, divisions
  3. 1 2 Central Statistical Organisation of Yemen. Statistic Yearbook 2013 of Yemen Archived 12 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine . The fields in the population.xls file are decimals (though they appear as whole numbers). To get the figures in the table, they were multiplied by 1000. Accessed 13 January 2016.

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