[2] The ancient capital, the port city of Crater, was located here.

The city of Aden became the capital of South Yemen between 1967 and 1990.

[citation needed] On 6 December 2015, the governor of Aden, General Jaafar Mohammed Saad, was killed a car bomb attack that also killed six members of his entourage.

[3] On July 29, 2020, Ahmed Hamed , the STC secretary general was by the Yemeni president as new governor of Aden as a result of the modified version of the Riyadh agreement signed between the Yemeni government and the southern transitional council representatives.

At 1,114 square kilometers, Aden is the second-smallest governorate in Yemen by area.