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

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.