Ta'izz Governorate
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Governorates of Yemen
|Yemen is divided into 21 governorates :The governorates are subdivided into 333 districts , which are subdivided into 2,210 sub-districts, and then into 38,284 villages ....
of Yemen
Yemen
The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
. The governorate's capital is Ta'izz
Ta'izz
Ta'izz , or Taiz, is a city in the Yemeni Highlands, near the famous Mocha port on the Red Sea, lying at an elevation of about 1,400 metres above sea level. It is the capital of Ta'izz Governorate...
, which is the third largest city in Yemen. Other major towns include Al Sawa, Juha and the famous coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
port of Mocha
Mocha, Yemen
Mocha or Mokha is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Until it was eclipsed in the 19th century by Aden and Hodeida, Mocha was the principal port for Yemen's capital Sana'a.-Overview:...
. It has a total population of just over three million and an area of 10,677km².
For such a small area, Ta'izz governorate has an extraordinarily diverse geography. The western half of the governorate is part of the Tihamah
Tihamah
Tihamah or Tihama is a narrow coastal region of Arabia on the Red Sea. It is currently divided between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. In a broad sense, Tihamah refers to the entire coastline from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb Strait but it more often refers only to its southern half, starting...
coastal plain
Coastal plain
A coastal plain is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a seacoast and separated from the interior by other features. One of the world's longest coastal plains is located in eastern South America. The southwestern coastal plain of North America is notable for its species diversity...
and has an exceedingly hot
Heat
In physics and thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one body, region, or thermodynamic system to another due to thermal contact or thermal radiation when the systems are at different temperatures. It is often described as one of the fundamental processes of energy transfer between...
, humid
Humidity
Humidity is a term for the amount of water vapor in the air, and can refer to any one of several measurements of humidity. Formally, humid air is not "moist air" but a mixture of water vapor and other constituents of air, and humidity is defined in terms of the water content of this mixture,...
and arid
Arid
A region is said to be arid when it is characterized by a severe lack of available water, to the extent of hindering or even preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life...
climate
Climate
Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements in a given region over long periods...
. The eastern half, however, is very mountain
Mountain
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ous, with the major peak being 3,070-metre-high Jebel Saber, near Ta'izz city. These mountains trap the moisture created by an upper-level wind reversal between April and October, so that in the eastern half of the governorate annual rainfall increases from 200 millimetres (8 inches) in the foothills to probably more than 1,000 millimetres (40 inches) near Jebel Saber. Temperatures in the highlands remain high during the daytime, but at the highest elevations they can fall dramatically to -5°C (23°F) overnight.
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
reflects this diversity. In the Tihamah region, there is only irrigated
Irrigation
Irrigation may be defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall...
agriculture, with cotton
Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....
, sorghum
Sorghum
Sorghum is a genus of numerous species of grasses, one of which is raised for grain and many of which are used as fodder plants either cultivated or as part of pasture. The plants are cultivated in warmer climates worldwide. Species are native to tropical and subtropical regions of all continents...
and sesame
Sesame
Sesame is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum. Numerous wild relatives occur in Africa and a smaller number in India. It is widely naturalized in tropical regions around the world and is cultivated for its edible seeds, which grow in pods....
the chief crops. Inland, whilst these crops are still significant, a much wider range of crops can be grown on rainfall and through water storage. Mango
Mango
The mango is a fleshy stone fruit belonging to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The mango is native to India from where it spread all over the world. It is also the most cultivated fruit of the tropical world. While...
es, papaya
Papaya
The papaya , papaw, or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, the sole species in the genus Carica of the plant family Caricaceae...
s and banana
Banana
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....
s are the major crops of the western escarpment, and further up coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
and khat
Khat
Khat, qat, gat or Waquish Spoken from true Yemeni, is a flowering plant native to tropical East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula....
are grown. Although wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
is prohibited in Yemen because of its alcohol
Ethanol
Ethanol, also called ethyl alcohol, pure alcohol, grain alcohol, or drinking alcohol, is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid. It is a psychoactive drug and one of the oldest recreational drugs. Best known as the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, it is also used in thermometers, as a...
content, grape
Grape
A grape is a non-climacteric fruit, specifically a berry, that grows on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, molasses and grape seed oil. Grapes are also...
s are still grown to produce raisin
Raisin
Raisins are dried grapes. They are produced in many regions of the world. Raisins may be eaten raw or used in cooking, baking and brewing...
s in some areas.
Ta'izz city is the major centre of Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic learning in Yemen and was the nation's capital between 1948 and 1962. However, it is not as old as nearby Ibb
Ibb
Ibb is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, situated on a mountain ridge, surrounded by fertile land and is known as "The Green City". It is located about 73 miles north-east of Mocha. Ibb was governed by a semi-autonomous emir until 1944, when the emirate was abolished...
and Jibla
Jibla
Jibla is a town in southwestern Yemen, close to Ibb. It is located at around , at the elevation of around 2,200 meters. The town and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List due to its purported universal cultural value....
. Today it is the most important commercial centre in Yemen owing to its proximity to the richest farmland in the nation and to the important Red Sea
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...
port of Mokha. It also has an international airport
International airport
An international airport is any airport that can accommodate flights from other countries and are typically equipped with customs and immigration facilities to handle these flights to and from other countries...
, Ta'izz International Airport
Ta'izz International Airport
Ta'izz International Airport is a public airport located in Ta'izz, the capital of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen.-Airlines and destinations:-Accidents and incidents:...
, with numerous services within Yemen and to neighbouring countries.
Districts
- Al Mukha District
- Al Ma'afer DistrictAl Ma'afer DistrictAl Ma'afer District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 110,924 inhabitants....
- Al Mawasit DistrictAl Mawasit DistrictAl Mawasit District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 115,857 inhabitants....
- Al Misrakh DistrictAl Misrakh DistrictAl Misrakh District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 112,653 inhabitants....
- Al Mudhaffar DistrictAl Mudhaffar DistrictAl Mudhaffar District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 146,259 inhabitants....
- Al Qahirah DistrictAl Qahirah DistrictAl Qahirah District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 149,394 inhabitants....
- Al Wazi'iyah DistrictAl Wazi'iyah DistrictAl Wazi'iyah District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 75,288 inhabitants....
- As Silw DistrictAs Silw DistrictAs Silw District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 152,486 inhabitants....
- Ash Shamayatayn DistrictAsh Shamayatayn DistrictAsh Shamayatayn District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 26,790 inhabitants....
- At Ta'iziyah DistrictAt Ta'iziyah DistrictAt Ta'iziyah District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 109,814 inhabitants....
- Dhubab DistrictDhubab DistrictDhubab District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 35,054 inhabitants. The principal town is Dhubab....
- Dimnat Khadir DistrictDimnat Khadir DistrictDimnat Khadir District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 49,832 inhabitants....
- Hayfan DistrictHayfan DistrictHayfan District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 171,315 inhabitants....
- Jabal Habashy DistrictJabal Habashy DistrictJabal Habashy District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 24,544 inhabitants....
- Maqbanah DistrictMaqbanah DistrictMaqbanah District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 62,471 inhabitants....
- Mashra'a Wa Hadnan DistrictMashra'a Wa Hadnan DistrictMashra'a Wa Hadnan District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 109,533 inhabitants....
- Mawiyah DistrictMawiyah DistrictMawiyah District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 129,765 inhabitants....
- Mawza DistrictMawza DistrictMawza District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 119,818 inhabitants....
- Sabir Al Mawadim DistrictSabir Al Mawadim DistrictSabir Al Mawadim District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 100,254 inhabitants....
- Salh DistrictSalh DistrictSalh District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 198,169 people....
- Sama DistrictSama District (Yemen)Sama District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 41,464 inhabitants....
- Shara'b Ar Rawnah DistrictShara'b Ar Rawnah DistrictShara'b Ar Rawnah District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 186,955 inhabitants....
- Shara'b As Salam DistrictShara'b As Salam DistrictShara'b As Salam District is a district of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 146,650 inhabitants....