Governorates of Yemen

List of type of bureaucratic division in Yemen

Yemen is divided into twenty-one governorates (muhafazah) and one municipality (amanah):^[1]

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

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).^[3]

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

See also

• Yemen portal

• ISO 3166-2:YE

References

1. منصور, رانيا (21 October 2017). "Yemeni Governorates". موسوعة المحيط (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 20 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
2. ctv.ca Yemen, divisions
3. 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.