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The Republic of Yemen is divided into twenty-one governorates (muhafazah) and one municipality (amanah):
The governorates are subdivided into 333 districts (muderiah), which are subdivided into 1,996 sub-districts, and then into 40,793 villages and 88,817 sub villages (as of 2013).
Baladiyah (Arabic: بلدية) is a type of Arabic administrative division that can be translated as "district", "sub-district" or "municipality". The plural is baladiyat (Arabic: بلديات). Grammatically, it is the feminine of بلدي "rural, country-, folk-".
The Arabic term amanah (أمانة) is also used for "municipality".
The subdivisions of Jordan are as follows: