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Yemen: 22 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 22 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-YEM-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO YEM / YEStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
22
first-level units
357
units at 2 levels
35,354,782
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Yemen by province, state and territory

22 first-level units and 335 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 22 first-level units of Yemen
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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.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Yemen

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
22 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
335 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
03Units

All 22 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

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

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
‘Adan Governorate YE-AD 1,086,825 1,158,347 738 1,473 3.1% 252,871
‘Amran Governorate YE-AM 1,498,106 1,404,183 7,931 189 4.2% 0
Abyan Governorate YE-AB 769,825 811,625 16,379 47 2.2% 23,638
Ad Dali’ Governorate YE-DA 856,752 1,080,975 4,014 213 2.4% 0
Al Bayda’ Governorate YE-BA 1,016,176 1,069,733 9,313 109 2.9% 0
Al Hudaydah Governorate YE-HU 3,863,197 4,276,083 13,254 291 10.9% 157,421
Al Jawf Governorate YE-JA 767,280 828,713 39,667 19 2.2% 0
Al Mahrah Governorate YE-MR 141,476 212,982 66,674 2 0.4% 26,214
Al Mahwit Governorate YE-MW 890,076 999,250 2,335 381 2.5% 0
Dhamar Governorate YE-DH 2,397,528 2,664,745 7,615 315 6.8% 0
Hadhramaut YE-HD 1,668,867 1,853,309 163,106 10 4.7% 89,690
Hajjah Governorate YE-HJ 2,505,353 2,907,642 8,333 301 7.1% 8,782
Ibb Governorate YE-IB 4,038,291 4,013,321 5,367 752 11.4% 0
Lahij Governorate YE-LA 1,279,867 1,406,906 12,689 101 3.6% 4,320
Ma’rib Governorate YE-MA 387,579 468,385 17,552 22 1.1% 0
Raymah Governorate YE-RA 644,562 798,948 1,899 339 1.8% 0
Sa’dah Governorate YE-SD 1,098,851 1,574,715 12,435 88 3.1% 0
Sanʿaʾ YE-SA 3,794,659 4,313,431 537 7,066 10.7% 0
Sanʿaʾ Governorate YE-SN 1,399,937 2,522,916 11,811 119 4% 0
Shabwah Governorate YE-SH 846,121 920,589 38,977 22 2.4% 3,622
Socotra YE-SU 47,620 63,378 3,787 13 0.1% 3,170
Ta’izz Governorate YE-TA 4,355,834 5,169,237 10,040 434 12.3% 23,555
04Umngcipheko

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Yemen publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Imithombo

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.
Amazwe
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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