🇾🇪 Yemen 22 administrative divisions

22 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 11,475 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1: YE · YEM · 887
Capital: Sanaa
Continent: Asia
Currency: YER — Yemeni Rial
Calling code: +967
Internet domain: .ye
Divisions: 22
Cities and towns: 11,475

Divisions

The 22 divisions of Yemen

22 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division	ISO 3166-2	Cities and towns	Population
Hajjah Governorate	YE-HJ	2,722	1,811,394
Saada Governorate	YE-SD	2,711	887,482
'Amran Governorate	YE-AM	918	967,634
Ta'izz Governorate	YE-TA	871	2,393,425
Al Jawf Governorate	YE-JA	694	534,408
Marib Governorate	YE-MA	547	291,403
Al Bayda' Governorate	YE-BA	529	660,105
Sanaa Governorate	YE-SN	526	1,042,468
Dhamar Governorate	YE-DH	349	1,645,436
Ibb Governorate	YE-IB	325	2,505,816
Hadhramaut Governorate	YE-HD	305	1,255,000
Al Hudaydah Governorate	YE-HU	176	2,687,674
Shabwah Governorate	YE-SH	165	546,467
Abyan Governorate	YE-AB	164	764,342
Lahij Governorate	YE-LA	116	865,791
Al Mahwit Governorate	YE-MW	110	599,340
Raymah Governorate	YE-RA	86	483,196
Dhale Governorate	YE-DA	67	597,936
Amanat al-Asimah Governorate	YE-SA	40	1,747,834
Al Mahrah Governorate	YE-MR	32	122,453
Socotra Archipelago Governorate	YE-SU	10	59,293
Aden Governorate	YE-AD	7	684,322

A further 5 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of Yemen
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/YE.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/YE/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.