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Socotra
Socotra
سُقُطْرَىٰ
Special Administrative Region of Yemen
	The City Hall building in Hadibu, Socotra
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Country	Saudi Arabia
Capital	Hadibu
Administrator	Zakir Hussein Al-Amri
Status	Leased to Caliphate Holdings
Area	3,796 sq km
Population	139,226 (2033 census)
Demographics	29% Soqotri; 22% Yemeni; 19% European; 11% South Asian; 10% Other African; 6% Other Arab; 3% East Asian
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Socotra (/səˈkoʊtrə, soʊ-, ˈsɒkətrə/; Arabic: سُقُطْرَىٰ Suquṭrā) or Saqatri (Soqotri: ساقطْري Saqaṭri) is a privately-administered island in the Indian Ocean part of Yemen, off the Horn of Africa. Situated between the Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Sea and near major shipping routes, Socotra is the largest of the six islands in the Socotra archipelago. The island is located 380 kilometers south of mainland Yemen, 270 kilometers east of Somalia and 1,176 kilometers east of Djibouti.

On 19 September 2025, the island of Socotra was designated as a Special Administrative Region of Yemen by Emir Ayyub Fahad Al-Ansari, with broad powers to legislate its own laws and regulations. On 6 January 2026, it was announced that the Socotra would be leased to Dominion Holdings Limited, a private company registered in Nevis, for a period of 100 years. Dominion appointed Yemeni businessman Zakir Hussein Al-Amri as Administrator of Socotra.

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-The '''Eastern Province''' (Arabic: المنطقة الشرقية ''al-Mintaqah ash-Sharqīyah''), also known as the '''Eastern Region''', is the easternmost of the 13 provinces of [[Saudi Arabia]]. It is the nation's largest province by area and the third-most populous after the Riyadh and Mecca provinces. In 2032, the population was 5,910,323. Of these, 3,540,359 were Saudi citizens and 2,369,964 were foreign nationals. The province accounts for 14.31% of the entire population of Saudi Arabia. The Eastern Province is bordered to the west, from north to south, by the provinces of the Northern Borders, Ha'il, Qassim, Riyadh and Najran. More than a third of the population is concentrated in the Dammam metropolitan area.
+'''Socotra''' (/səˈkoʊtrə, soʊ-, ˈsɒkətrə/; Arabic: سُقُطْرَىٰ ''Suquṭrā'') or '''Saqatri''' (Soqotri: ساقطْري ''Saqaṭri'') is a privately-administered island in the Indian Ocean part of [[Yemen]], off the Horn of Africa. Situated between the Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Sea and near major shipping routes, Socotra is the largest of the six islands in the Socotra archipelago. The island is located 380 kilometers south of mainland Yemen, 270 kilometers east of Somalia and 1,176 kilometers east of Djibouti.
+On 19 September 2025, the island of Socotra was designated as a Special Administrative Region of Yemen by Emir Ayyub Fahad Al-Ansari, with broad powers to legislate its own laws and regulations. On 6 January 2026, it was announced that the Socotra would be leased to Dominion Holdings Limited, a private company registered in Nevis, for a period of 100 years. Dominion appointed Yemeni businessman Zakir Hussein Al-Amri as Administrator of Socotra.