Sanaa Governorate

Sanaa, also spelled San'a' or Sana, is a governorate of . The capital is , which is also the national capital. However, the city of Sanaa is not part of the governorate but instead forms the separate governorate of Amanat Al-Asemah.
  • State with about 1,040,000 residents
  • Description: governorate of Yemen
  • Also known as
    “Liwa of Sana’a”
    “Muḩāfaz̧at Şan‘ā’”
    “Province of San‘a”
    “Şan‘ā’”
    “Sanaa”
  • Neighbors:

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jihanah and Ghayman.
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Sanaa, also spelled San'a' or Sana, is a governorate of .
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Sanaa, also spelled San'a' or Sana, is a governorate of .
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Sanaa, also spelled San'a' or Sana, is a governorate of .
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Latitude
15.2607° or 15° 15′ 39″ north
Longitude
44.4249° or 44° 25′ 30″ east
Open location code
7H767C6F+7X
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yiddish—“Sanaa Governorate” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሳናእ Governorate”
  • Arabic: “صنعاء”
  • Arabic: “محافظة صنعاء”
  • Azerbaijani: “Səna mühafəzəsi”
  • Belarusian: “Сана”
  • Bulgarian: “Сана”
  • Catalan: “Governació de Sanà”
  • Cebuano: “Sanaa”
  • Chinese: “沙那省”
  • Chinese: “萨那省”
  • Chinese: “薩那省”
  • Croatian: “Sana”
  • Czech: “provincie San’á”
  • Czech: “Saná”
  • Dutch: “Sanaa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة صنعاء”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Sanao”
  • Finnish: “Sanaa”
  • French: “Gouvernorat de Sanaa”
  • French: “Muhafadat Sanaa”
  • French: “Sana’a”
  • Galician: “Gobernación de Sana’a”
  • Galician: “Gobernación de Saná”
  • Galician: “provincia de Saná”
  • Georgian: “სანა”
  • Georgian: “სანის მუჰაფაზა”
  • German: “Gouvernement Sanaa”
  • German: “Sanʿā‘”
  • German: “YE-SN”
  • Hausa: “Sanaa Governorate”
  • Hebrew: “צנעא”
  • Hindi: “सनआ प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “सनआ मुहाफ़ज़ाह”
  • Hungarian: “Szanaa kormányzóság”
  • Hungarian: “Szanaa”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Sana’a”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di San’a”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Sana’a”
  • Japanese: “サナア県”
  • Javanese: “Sanaa Governorate”
  • Kazakh: “Санаа Governorate”
  • Kirghiz: “Санаа Governorate”
  • Korean: “사나주”
  • Malay: “Kegabenoran Sanaa”
  • Malay: “Sanaa Governorate”
  • Maltese: “Governorat ta‘ Sana’a”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sana’a Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanaá”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sana guvernement”
  • Norwegian: “Sanaá”
  • Oromo: “Sanaa Governorate”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਨਾਆ Governorate”
  • Persian: “استان صَنعا”
  • Persian: “استان صَنعاء”
  • Persian: “صنعا”
  • Polish: “Sana”
  • Portuguese: “Saná”
  • Portuguese: “Sanaá”
  • Portuguese: “Sanyyan”
  • Pushto: “صنعاء ګورنوري”
  • Romanian: “Guvernoratul Sana’a”
  • Russian: “Сана”
  • Scots: “Sana’a Govrenorate”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sana”
  • Slovak: “provincia Saná”
  • Slovenian: “Guvernat Sana”
  • Somali: “Sanaa Governorate”
  • South Azerbaijani: “صنعا اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Sana’a”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Saná”
  • Spanish: “Saná”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya San‘a’”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Sana’a”
  • Swedish: “Guvernementet Sana’a”
  • Swedish: “Provinsen Sanaa”
  • Swedish: “Sana’a”
  • Tajik: “Санаа Governorate”
  • Tatar: “Санаа Governorate”
  • Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการซานา”
  • Turkish: “San’a ili”
  • Turkish: “San’a”
  • Ukrainian: “Сана”
  • Urdu: “محافظہ صنعاء”
  • Uzbek: “Sanaа Governorate”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨那省”
  • Yiddish: “סאנא”

Localities in the Area

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Jabal an Naamah and Jabal as Sawda‘.
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Yemen: Highlights

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