Aden Province

Aden, essentially the port of Aden, was governed and organized as a Province of the British India between 1839 and 1937, while physically located on the southern Arabian Peninsula. Aden had been governed since September 1839 as the Aden Settlement, a 'Non-Regulation Province' subordinated to the Bombay Presidency, and then as a 'Regulation Province' governed by a chief commissioner appointed by the Governor-General of India.