Governorates of Yemen

Governorates of Yemen محافظات اليمن
Also known as: Muhafazah

Category	Unitary state
Location	Republic of Yemen
Number	21 governorates
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	Governorate government, National government
Subdivisions	District

Yemen

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

Division	Arabic	Capital city	Area ^[1] (km²)	Pop (2013) ^[2]	Key
Former North Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic), until 1990
'Amran	عمران	'Amran	9,587	1,123,651	2
Al Bayda	البيضاء	Al Bayda	11,193	835,683	5
Al Hudaydah	الحديدة	Al Hudaydah	17,509	3,774,914	6
Al Jawf	الجوف	Al Hazm	30,620	663,147	7
Al Mahwit	المحويت	Al Mahwit	2,858	732,360	9
Amanat Al Asimah	أمانة العاصمة	Sana'a	126	1,174,767	10
Dhamar	ذمار	Dhamar	10,495	1,697,067	11
Hajjah	حجة	Hajjah	10,141	1,887,213	13
Ibb	إب	Ibb	6,484	3,911,070	14
Ma'rib	مأرب	Ma'rib	20,023	504,696	16
Raymah	ريمة	Raymah	3,442	502,505	17
Sa'dah	صعدة	Sa'dah	15,022	987,663	18
Sana'a	صنعاء	Sana'a	15,052	2,279,665	19
Taiz	تعز	Taiz	12,605	4,554,443	21
Former South Yemen (People's Democratic Republic of Yemen), until 1990
Aden	عدن	Aden	1,114	1,087,653	1
Abyan	أبين	Zinjibar	21,939	658,824	3
Dhale	الضالع	Dhale	4,786	602,613	4
Al Mahrah	المهرة	Al Ghaydah	82,405	224,406	8
Hadramaut	حضرموت	Al Mukalla	191,737	1,329,085	12
Socotra	محافظة أرخبيل سقطرى	Hadibu	...¹⁾	...¹⁾	22
Lahij	لحج	Lahij	15,210	926,291	15
Shabwah	شبوة	Ataq	47,728	651,509	20
Yemen	اليَمَن	Sana'a	528,076	30,109,225	TOTAL

¹⁾ Soqatra Governorate created in December 2013 from parts of Hadramaut, 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).^[2]

Before 1990, Yemen existed as two separate entities. For more information, see Historic Governorates of Yemen.

References

↑ http://www.world-gazetteer.com, Yemen, divisions
1 2 Central Statistical Organisation of Yemen.Statistic Yearbook 2013 of Yemen . 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.

Governorates of Yemen

Abyan Aden Al Mahrah Hadramaut Lahij Shabwah Ad Dali' 'Amran Al Bayda Al Hudaydah Al Jawf Al Mahwit Amanat Al Asimah Dhamar Hajjah Ibb Ma'rib Raymah Saada Sana'a Taiz Socotra

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