ʿAwlaqī (pl. ʿAwāliq) is a South Arabian tribal confederation and its territory, located in the present-day Republic of Yemen, in an area that stretches approximately one hundred kilometres along the Indian Ocean coastline and extends inland to where it abuts the desert territory of Ramlat al-Sabʿatayn. In the late 1960s, under the Socialist government, the former ʿAwlaqī lands, which consisted of the Lower ʿAwlaqī Sultanate (with its "capital" in Aḥwar), the Upper ʿAwlaqī Sultanate (Niṣāb), and the Upper ʿAwlaqī Shaykhdom (al-Ṣaʿīd), were divided between Province III (Abyan)