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Yemen is the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula: terraced highlands in the west, a hot Red Sea plain below them, and in the east a desert plateau that runs to the Omani border. The governorates are the way anyone in Yemen says where something is, from the capital in the mountains to Socotra out in the Indian Ocean.
The first tier of Yemen: the governorates, with the capital Sana'a City, which has the standing of one and is counted as one here. The map shows the governorates as they stood after Socotra was made one of its own, and it makes no claim about who controls which of them today.
The size range is the first thing to learn. Hadramaut in the east is the largest by a wide margin and takes up much of the country, while Sana'a City is a speck beside its neighbours, so the game gives it a tap area. Socotra is a separate island and has to be found far to the south east of the mainland.
The groups are the six regions of the 2014 federal plan: Azal, Saba, Janad, Tihama, Aden and Hadramaut. The plan was drawn up in 2014 and never put into effect, so they are a way of remembering the map rather than an administrative level, and the capital is counted with Azal and Socotra with Hadramaut, as the plan placed them. The governorates are the Yemen Districts grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Hadramaut stretches from the Gulf of Aden to the Saudi border, and is mostly desert, with the Wadi Hadramaut cutting across it.
Sana'a City is a governorate of its own, and Sana'a Governorate wraps round it. It is small enough that the game gives it a tap area.
Socotra is an island group closer to Somalia than to Yemen, and the map keeps it where it is rather than moving it next to the mainland.
22 on this map: 21 governorates and the capital Sana'a City, which has the same standing.
Sana'a City is the capital and Sana'a Governorate is the province around it. They are separate governorates, and each answers to its own name.
The districts, which number 333 on this map. They are their own quiz.
The tier below this one is Yemen Districts. For another country at this level, see Kazakhstan Regions.
