Governorates of Yemen

The Republic of Yemen is divided into twenty-one governorates (muhafazah) and one municipality (amanah):<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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).<ref name="CSO" />

Before 1990, Yemen existed as two separate entities. South Yemen consisted of modern Aden, Abyan, Mahrah, Dhale, Hadramaut, Socotra, Lahij, and Shabwah Governorates, while the rest made up North Yemen. For more information, see Historic Governorates of Yemen.

List of governorates

Name in English	Name in Arabic	Capital	Area (km2)<ref>ctv.ca Yemen, divisions</ref>	Population (2013)<ref name="CSO">Central Statistical Organisation of Yemen. Statistic Yearbook 2013 of Yemen [1] Template:Webarchive. 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.</ref>	Population Density	Key	Federal Region
Abyan	Template:Lang	Zinjibar	21,939	658,824	30.0	3	Aden
Aden	Template:Lang	Aden	1,114	1,087,653	976.3	1	Aden
Al Bayda	Template:Lang	Al Bayda	11,193	835,683	74.6	5	Sheba
Al Hudaydah	Template:Lang	Al Hudaydah	17,509	3,774,914	215.5	6	Tahamah
Al Jawf	Template:Lang	Al Hazm	30,620	663,147	21.6	7	Sheba
Al Mahrah	Template:Lang	Al Ghaydah	122,500	400,000	3.2	8	Hadramaut
Al Mahwit	Template:Lang	Al Mahwit	2,858	732,360	256.2	9	Tahamah
Amanat Al Asimaha	Template:Lang	Sana'a	126	1,174,767	9,323.5	10	N/A
'Amran	Template:Lang	'Amran	9,587	1,123,651	117.2	2	Azal
Dhale	Template:Lang	Dhale	4,786	602,613	125.9	4	Aden
Dhamar	Template:Lang	Dhamar	10,495	1,697,067	161.7	11	Azal
Hadramaut	Template:Lang	Mukalla	191,737	1,329,085	6.9	12	Hadramaut
Hajjah	Template:Lang	Hajjah	10,141	1,887,213	186.0	13	Tahamah
Ibb	Template:Lang	Ibb	6,484	3,911,070	603.1	14	Al Janad
Lahij	Template:Lang	Lahij	15,210	926,291	60.5	15	Aden
Ma'rib	Template:Lang	Ma'rib	20,023	504,696	25.2	16	Sheba
Raymah	Template:Lang	Al-Jabin	3,442	502,505	145.9	17	Tahamah
Sa'dah	Template:Lang	Sa'dah	15,022	987,663	65.7	18	Azal
Sana'a	Template:Lang	Sana'a	15,052	2,279,665	151.4	19	Azal
Shabwah	Template:Lang	Ataq	47,728	651,509	13.6	20	Hadramaut
Socotra Archipelagob	Template:Lang	Hadibu	2359	60,000	25.4	22	Hadramaut
Taiz	Template:Lang	Taiz	12,605	4,554,443	361.3	21	Al Janad
Yemen	Template:Lang	Sana'a	528,076	30,109,225	57.0

Notes:
^a - Also known as Sanaa City, it is not part of any federal region
^b - Socotra Governorate was created in December 2013 from parts of the Hadhramaut Governorate, data included there

See also

• ISO 3166-2:YE