As-Safira District

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as-Safira District (Arabic: منطقة السفيرة, romanizedmanṭiqat as-Safīrah) is a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. Administrative centre is the city of as-Safira. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 178,293.[1]

The administrative center of Nahiya as-Safira shown above is the city of as-Safira.
The administrative center of Nahiya Banan shown above is the city of Banan.
The administrative center of Nahiya Al-Hajib shown above is the city of Al-Hajib.
The administrative center of Nahiya Khanasir shown above is the city of Khanasir.

The main towns are as-Safira and Khanasir. The main economic activity is agriculture. Since ancient times, as-Safira was a fertile area where grains and other crops were harvested.

Sub-districts

The district of as-Safira is divided into five sub-districts or nawāḥī (population as of 2004[1]):

Subdistricts of as-Safira District
Code Name Area Population Seat
SY020700 as-Safira Nahiya 846.37 km² 132,658 as-Safira
Tell Aran Nahiya Tell Aran
SY020701 Khanasir Nahiya 1,603.98 km² 17,618 Khanasir
SY020702 Banan Nahiya 140.06 km² 17,193 Banan
SY020703 al-Hajib Nahiya 260.16 km² 10,408 al-Hajib

In 2009, the northwestern area around the majority Kurdish city of Tell Aran was spun off al-Safira Nahiya to establish Tell Aran Nahiya.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference census2004 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "احداث منطقتي دير حافر والاتارب تعزيزاً لمسيرة التنمية". Al-Jamahir (in Arabic). Aleppo. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2016.