Al-Dhubi, Al-Dubi (Arabic: الضُبي Dhubī), or the Dhubi Sheikhdom (Arabic: مشيخة الضُبي Mashyakhat ad-Dhubī), was a small state in the British Aden Protectorate. Dhubi was located between Mawsata in the southwest, Hadrami in the northeast, Lower Yafa in the south and Upper Yafa in the north.

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Dhubi Sheikdom مشيخة الضُبي
State of the Protectorate of South Arabia
18th century–1967
Map of the Federation of South Arabia
• Type	Sheikhdom
Historical era	20th century
• Established	18th century
• Disestablished	1967
Preceded by Succeeded by Federation of Arab Emirates of the South South Yemen

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Its last sheikh was deposed in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen and the area is now part of the Republic of Yemen.^[1]

Al-Dhubi was one of the five sheikhdoms of Upper Yafa.

It entered into a protectorate treaty with Britain on 11 May 1903.^[2]

It was part nominally of the Western Aden Protectorate.

Al-Dhubi never joined the Federation of South Arabia, but became part of the Protectorate of South Arabia between 1963 and 1967.^[3]

• Aden Protectorate
• Upper Yafa