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Ta’izz Governorate

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

Page GRX-YEM-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO YEM / YEStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
4,355,834
people (GHSL 2025)
10,040 km²
area
12.3%
of Yemen
23
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Ta’izz Governorate

The 23 ADM2 units of Ta’izz Governorate.

FIG 1 · 23 units inside Ta’izz 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.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

4,355,834

12.3% of Yemen.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

5,169,237

+19% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

10,040 km²

434 people per km².

Code

YE-TA

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Indawo esogwini ephansi

23,555

people on land at or below 10 m, 0.5% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

23 units inside Ta’izz 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 Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Al Ma’afer – 225,762 280,969 349.83 645 4.7% 0
Al Makha – 49,895 174,996 1,594.41 31 1% 9,861
Al Mawasit – 199,438 226,624 216.53 921 4.1% 0
Al Misrakh – 182,257 151,340 96.12 1,896 3.8% 0
Al Mudhaffar – 315,027 301,119 18.46 17,065 6.5% 0
Al Qahirah – 742,883 592,757 9.58 77,545 15.4% 0
Al Wazi’yah – 111,225 5,964 409.42 272 2.3% 0
As Silw – 183,250 35,183 83.44 2,196 3.8% 0
Ash Shamayatayn – 55,785 580,494 640.66 87 1.2% 0
At Ta’iziyah – 404,056 618,442 616.32 656 8.4% 0
Dhubab – 47,176 5,667 1,610.29 29 1% 13,645
Dimnat Khadir – 140,581 286,387 462.77 304 2.9% 0
Hayfan – 398,648 117,436 187.73 2,124 8.3% 0
Jabal Habashi – 39,473 349,093 313.1 126 0.8% 0
Maqbanah – 138,549 592,197 1,228.42 113 2.9% 0
Mashr’ah Wa Hadnan – 11,381 14,267 13.65 834 0.2% 0
Mawiyah – 229,273 259,107 712.3 322 4.8% 0
Mawza’ – 168,957 10,754 665.97 254 3.5% 0
Sabir Al Mawadim – 260,584 140,794 190.23 1,370 5.4% 0
Salah – 444,029 354,298 18 24,668 9.2% 0
Sami’ – 36,076 51,783 60.22 599 0.7% 0
Shar’ab Ar Rawnah – 272,261 216,108 425.57 640 5.6% 0
Shar’ab As Salam – 163,880 185,571 190.94 858 3.4% 0
04Exposure

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
124.3 H3 cells
Amachweba
None at this resolution
Izikhumulo zezindiza
None at this resolution
Major roads
276.4 H3 cells
Ojantshi
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Ubungozi

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Ta’izz Governorate publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Yemen.
07Imithombo

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.