Governorates of Yemen
محافظات اليمن
  • Also known as:
  • Muhafazah
A clickable map of Yemen exhibiting its 21 governorates.'Adan Governorate'Amran GovernorateAbyan GovernorateAd Dali GovernorateAl Bayda' GovernorateAl Hudaydah GovernorateAl Jawf GovernorateAl Mahrah GovernorateAl Mahwit GovernorateSana'aSana'aDhamar GovernorateHadramaut GovernorateHajjah GovernorateIbb GovernorateLahij GovernorateMa'rib GovernorateRaymah GovernorateSa'dah GovernorateSana'a GovernorateShabwah GovernorateTa'izz Governorate
A clickable map of Yemen exhibiting its 21 governorates.
CategoryUnitary state
LocationRepublic 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)
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Yemen is divided into twenty-one governorates (muhafazah) and one municipality (amanah):[1]

Name in
English		 Name in
Arabic		 Capital Area
(km2)[2]		 Population
(2013)[3]		 Population
Density		 Key Federal
Region
Abyan أبين Zinjibar 21,939 658,824 30.0 3 Aden
Aden عدن Aden 1,114 1,087,653 976.3 1 Aden
Al Bayda البيضاء Al Bayda 11,193 835,683 74.6 5 Sheba
Al Hudaydah الحديدة Al Hudaydah 17,509 3,774,914 215.5 6 Tahamah
Al Jawf الجوف Al Hazm 30,620 663,147 21.6 7 Sheba
Al Mahrah المهرة Al Ghaydah 122,500 400,000 3.2 8 Hadramaut
Al Mahwit المحويت Al Mahwit 2,858 732,360 256.2 9 Tahamah
Amanat Al Asimaha أمانة العاصمة Sana'a 126 1,174,767 9,323.5 10 N/A
'Amran عمران 'Amran 9,587 1,123,651 117.2 2 Azal
Dhale الضالع Dhale 4,786 602,613 125.9 4 Aden
Dhamar ذمار Dhamar 10,495 1,697,067 161.7 11 Azal
Hadramaut حضرموت Mukalla 191,737 1,329,085 6.9 12 Hadramaut
Hajjah حجة Hajjah 10,141 1,887,213 186.0 13 Tahamah
Ibb إب Ibb 6,484 3,911,070 603.1 14 Al Janad
Lahij لحج Lahij 15,210 926,291 60.5 15 Aden
Ma'rib مأرب Ma'rib 20,023 504,696 25.2 16 Sheba
Raymah ريمة Al-Jabin 3,442 502,505 145.9 17 Tahamah
Sa'dah صعدة Sa'dah 15,022 987,663 65.7 18 Azal
Sana'a صنعاء Sana'a 15,052 2,279,665 151.4 19 Azal
Shabwah شبوة Ataq 47,728 651,509 13.6 20 Hadramaut
Socotra Archipelagob محافظة أرخبيل سقطرى Hadibu 2,359 60,000 40.9 22 Hadramaut
Taiz تعز Taiz 12,605 4,554,443 361.3 21 Al Janad
Yemen اليَمَن Sana'a 528,076 30,109,225 57.0

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

References

  1. ^ منصور, رانيا (21 October 2017). "Yemeni Governorates". موسوعة المحيط (in Arabic). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  2. ^ ctv.ca Yemen, divisions
  3. ^ a b Central Statistical Organisation of Yemen. Statistic Yearbook 2013 of Yemen [1] 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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