The Republic of Yemen is divided into twenty-one governorates (muhafazah) and one municipality (amanah).
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).
Before reunification in 1990, Yemen existed as two separate countries. South Yemen consisted of modern Aden, Abyan, Mahrah, Hadramaut, Socotra, Lahij, and Shabwah Governorates, while the rest made up North Yemen (also 70% of the area of Dhale Governorate). For more information, see Historic Governorates of Yemen.
List of governorates Name inEnglish Name inArabic Capital Area(km2)ctv.ca Yemen, divisions Population(2013)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. PopulationDensity Key Abyan Zinjibar 21,939 658,824 30.0 3 Aden Aden 1,114 1,087,653 976.3 1 Al Bayda Al Bayda 11,193 835,683 74.6 5 Al Hudaydah Hodeidah 17,509 3,774,914 215.5 6 Al Jawf Al Hazm 30,620 663,147 21.6 7 Al Mahrah Al Ghaydah 122,500 400,000 3.2 8 Al Mahwit Al Mahwit 2,858 732,360 256.2 9 Amanat Al Asimaha Sanaa 126 1,174,767 9,323.5 10 'Amran 'Amran 9,587 1,123,651 117.2 2 Dhale Dhale 4,786 602,613 125.9 4 Dhamar Dhamar 10,495 1,697,067 161.7 11 Hadramaut Mukalla 191,737 1,329,085 6.9 12 Hajjah Hajjah 10,141 1,887,213 186.0 13 Ibb Ibb 6,484 3,911,070 603.1 14 Lahij Lahij 15,210 926,291 60.5 15 Ma'rib Ma'rib 20,023 504,696 25.2 16 Raymah Al Jabin 3,442 502,505 145.9 17 Saada Saada 15,022 987,663 65.7 18 Sanaa Sanaa 15,052 2,279,665 151.4 19 Shabwah Ataq 47,728 651,509 13.6 20 Socotra Archipelagob Hadibu 2359 60,000 25.4 22 Taiz Taiz 12,605 4,554,443 361.3 21 Yemen Sanaa 528,076 30,109,225 57.0
Notes: b - Socotra Governorate was created in December 2013 from parts of the Hadhramaut Governorate, data included there
See also
ISO 3166-2:YE
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