Yemen - Subnational Administrative Boundaries
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Yemen administrative level 0-2 boundaries (COD-AB) dataset version 01.
This dataset is structured into 2 levels:
- Admin 1: 22 Governorate
- Admin 2: 335 District
Dates associated with this dataset:
- 23 December 2024: dataset reviewed for accuracy and completeness
- 22 November 2019: valid for use by the humanitarian community
- 09 October 2023: last edit to the dataset before publishing
- 09 October 2023: boundaries created by the source
Contributed byOCHA Yemen.
Quality assured, configured, and published byOCHA Field Information Services (FIS) andHDX.
Part of the dataset:Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries

Dataset: Downloaded from data source website
Most Recent Changes:
27 November 2019 ITOS files and geoservices added
25-November-2019- Layers in TOPOJSON format were added
24-November-2019- Layers inGEOPackage format were added
10-November-2019- Admin3 layer was added along with updated admin 0, 1 and 2 layers. The layers were provided by Yemen Central Organization ( CSO ) and approved for use by Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in October 2019.
8 November 2019Geodatabase removed due to loading error. It will be replaced when the administrative level 3 data are ready.
7-October-2017- Added unique reference names in both English and Arabic for admin2 (District) ; added ESRI file geodatabase and Excel formats; standard global field naming; redundant field names were removed.
Admin Level 3 removed.
New governorate has been added (Socotra island).Districts pCodes of Hadramaut, Taiz and Raymah governorates have been updated based on the CSO's pCodes, 2 of Hadramaut's districts moved to Socotra governorate.
The Admin level 3 boundaries shapefile does not contain a full set of admin level 3 boundaries for all governorates.
Languages: AR EN
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