Talk:Governorates of Yemen

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Division as at 2012 (before the establishment of Soqatra as a 21st muhafazat). Their areas and populations at the Census of 2004 and according to the 2012 official estimates are set out below:

Muhafazat	Area (km²	Population Census 2004	Population Estimate 2012	Capital
Sana'a (city)	247	1,747,834	2,215,719	Sana'a
Abyan	24,131	433,819	543,144	Zinjibar
'Adan (Aden)	7,099	589,419	751,806	Aden
Amran	#	877,786	1,092,123	Amran
Al Asimah	28,977	919,215	1,141,804	Sana'a
Al Bayda'	10,711	577,369	715,040	Al Bayda'
Al Dhale'e	#	470,564	585,705	Al Dhale'e
Al Hudaydah	16,646	2,157,552	2,697,055	Al Hudaydah
Al Jawf	13,175	443,797	547,349	Al Jawf
Al Mahrah	98,249	88,594	111,197	Al Ghaydah
Al Mahwit	2,501	494,557	543,144	Al Mahwit
Dhamar	8,745	1,330,108	1,649,444	Dhamar
Hadramaut	148,178	1,028,556	1,291,793	Al Mukalla
Hajjah	10,677	1,479,568	1,834,263	Hajjah
Ibb	7,632	2,131,861	2,634,988	Ibb
Lahij	14,836	722,692	900,298	Lahij
Ma'rib	13,466	238,522	296,148	Ma'rib
Raymah	#	394,448	488,403	Raymah
Sa'dah	29,617	695,033	862,758	Sa'dah
Shabwah	78,995	470,635	584,632	'Ataq
Ta'izz	14,194	2,393,425	2,968,719	Ta'izz

# Note the areas of these 3 governorates are included in the figures for other governorates from which they were formed.

:@Rif Winfield: the article's figures were recently changed by an IP, and these changes weren't sourced. I'd like to make sure the article follows sources. The article references the 2012 estimates from CSO's "General Population Housing and Establishment Census 2012 Final Results", but no link can take me to that 2012 report (just a 2004 one, it seems) and CSO's site is impossible to navigate. Do you have a source for those 2012 official estimates? --BurritoBazooka (talk) 13:20, 4 January 2016 (UTC) Nevermind, I found a 'yearbook' with some estimates. --BurritoBazooka (talk) 13:33, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy in sizes of the governorates

I noticed that the sizes of some of the governorates listed in this article are different form the sizes listed in their own article. For example, the size of Al Mahrah Governorate is 122,500 km2, but in the article it is shown as 82,405 km2. The same happens to Dhamar, Raymar, Saada and Socotra, and the sizes listed on this article is always larger.

However, all the area listed in the individual articles lack sources and may be inaccurate. For example, size of Al Mahrah is 68,851 km2 according Yemenlg. Are their any reliable sources that provides the accurate areas of the Yemeni Governorates? GoombaKoopa (talk) 04:31, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]