As-Safira District

as-Safira District (Arabic: منطقة السفيرة‎, romanized: manṭiqat 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]

Sub-Districts of as-Safira District
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.
as-Safira District

منطقة السفيرة
District
Location of as-Safira District within Aleppo Governorate
as-Safira District
Location in Syria
Coordinates (as-Safira): 36.07°N 37.37°E / 36.07; 37.37
Country Syria
GovernorateAleppo
Seatas-Safira
Subdistricts5 nawāḥī
Area
 • Total2,850.56 km2 (1,100.61 sq mi)
Population
 (2004)[1]
178,293
GeocodeSY0207

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
CodeNameAreaPopulationSeat
SY020700 as-Safira Subdistrict 846.37 km² 132,658 as-Safira
Tell Aran Subdistrict Tell Aran
SY020701 Khanasir Subdistrict 1,603.98 km² 17,618 Khanasir
SY020702 Banan Subdistrict 140.06 km² 17,193 Banan
SY020703 al-Hajib Subdistrict 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 Subdistrict to establish Tell Aran Subdistrict.[2]

References
  1. "General Census of Population and Housing 2004" (PDF) (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015. Also available in English: "2004 Census Data". UN OCHA. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  2. "احداث منطقتي دير حافر والاتارب تعزيزاً لمسيرة التنمية". Al-Jamahir (in Arabic). Aleppo. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2016.


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