Governorates of Yemen
| Governorates of Yemen محافظات اليمن | |
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| 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) |
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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 |
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| 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.
See also
References
- ^ http://www.world-gazetteer.com, Yemen, divisions
- ^ a b Central Statistical Organisation of Yemen.Statistic Yearbook 2013 of Yemen [1]. 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.