Governorates of Yemen
| Governorates of Yemen محافظات اليمن | |
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| Category | Unitary state |
| Location | Republic of Yemen |
| Number | 21 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 [أمانة]):
| Division | Arabic | Capital city | Area [1] (km2) |
Pop (2013) [2] |
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| Former Yemen Arab Republic (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 |
| Al Mahrah | المهرة | Al Ghaydah | 122,500 | 400,000 | 8 |
| Dhale | الضالع | Dhale | 4,786 | 602,613 | 4 |
| Hadramaut | حضرموت | Mukalla | 191,737 | 1,329,085 | 12 |
| Socotra | محافظة أرخبيل سقطرى | Hadibu | ...1) | 60,000 | 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.
See also
References
- ^ http://www.world-gazetteer.com, Yemen, divisions
- ^ 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.