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Kafrun Badra

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Kafrun Badra
كفرون بدرة
Kafrun Badra is located in Syria
Kafrun Badra
Kafrun Badra
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°50′55″N 36°14′48″E / 34.84861°N 36.24667°E / 34.84861; 36.24667
Country Syria
GovernorateTartus
DistrictSafita
SubdistrictMashta al-Helu
Population
 (2004 census)[1]
 • Total
302
Time zoneUTC+3 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (EEST)

Kafrun Badra (كفرون بدرة; also spelled Kafroun Badra) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Safita District of the Tartous Governorate.

The anthropologist Fabrice Balanche noted that Kafrun Badra's population remained largely stagnant between 1960 and 1994, remaining approximately 340.[2] According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kafrun Badra had a population of 302 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Christians.[2]

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  • Balanche, Fabrice (2000). "Les Alaouites, l'espace et le pouvoir dans la région côtière syrienne : une intégration nationale ambiguë" (in French). Tours: Université François Rabelais. Retrieved 20 October 2024.