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NXS-GRX-YEM · Western Asia · Regions

Lahij Governorate

First-level unit, Yemen: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 22 first-level units
Page GRX-YEM-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO YEM / YEStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,279,867
people (GHSL 2025)
12,689 km²
area
3.6%
of Yemen
15
units inside

01Map

Inside Lahij Governorate

The 15 ADM2 units of Lahij Governorate.

FIG 1 · 15 units inside Lahij Governorate
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

1,279,867

3.6% of Yemen.

People · WorldPop 2025

1,406,906

+10% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

क्षेत्र

12,689 km²

101 people per km².

कोड

YE-LA

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

4,320

people on land at or below 10 m, 0.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

15 units inside Lahij Governorate

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit कोड People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Al Had – 75,398 92,739 309.79 243 5.9% 0
Al Hawtah – 51,847 62,115 8.44 6,143 4.1% 0
Al Madaribah Wa Al Aarah – 86,079 85,250 3,480.49 25 6.8% 4,390
Al Maflahi – 69,042 76,938 112.47 614 5.4% 0
Al Malah – 64,699 62,493 1,030.1 63 5.1% 0
Al Maqatirah – 96,674 127,617 416.24 232 7.6% 0
Al Musaymir – 31,898 41,743 561.05 57 2.5% 0
Al Qubaytah – 128,779 149,612 1,043.34 123 10.1% 0
Habil Jabr – 76,836 79,174 529.49 145 6.1% 0
Halmin – 50,178 57,835 307.76 163 4% 0
Radfan – 73,948 80,788 610.97 121 5.8% 0
Tuban – 161,680 153,959 1,632.36 99 12.7% 0
Tur Al Bahah – 82,084 92,817 1,841.18 45 6.5% 0
Yafi’ – 159,035 157,393 242.07 657 12.5% 0
Yahr – 61,458 70,091 224.45 274 4.8% 0
04संपर्कात येणे

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
27.2 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
406.2 H3 cells
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05जोखीम

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Lahij Governorate publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Yemen.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07स्रोत

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen YEM ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen YEM ADM2, source: Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), OCHA Yemen, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2021
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
देश
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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Avis en français

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