Mount Simeon District

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Mount Simeon District

Mount Simeon District (Arabic: منطقة جبل سمعان, romanized: manṭiqat Jabal Sem‘ān) is a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Aleppo.

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Mount Simeon District
منطقة جبل سمعان
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Location of Mount Simeon District within Aleppo Governorate
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Mount Simeon District
Location in Syria
Coordinates (Aleppo): 36.22°N 37.17°E / 36.22; 37.17
Country Syria
GovernorateAleppo
SeatAleppo
Subdistricts7 nawāḥī
Area
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2,757.27 km2 (1,064.59 sq mi)
Population
 (2004)[1]
2,413,878
GeocodeSY0200
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Until December 2008, the sub-district of Atāreb was part of Mount Simeon District before being incorporated as a separate district.[2] At the 2004 census, the remaining sub-districts had a total population of 2,413,878.[1]

Sub-districts

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

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Subdistricts of Mount Simeon District
CodeNameAreaPopulationSeatLocation
SY020000 Mount Simeon Subdistrict 663.95 km² 2,181,061 Aleppo
SY020002 Tell ad-Daman Subdistrict 1,146.95 km² 47,501 Tell al-Daman
SY020003 Haritan Subdistrict 232.76 km² 67,745 Haritan
SY020004 Darat Izza Subdistrict 227.49 km² 39,540 Darat Izza
SY020005 al-Zirbah Subdistrict 354.79 km² 55,391 al-Zirbah
Zammar Subdistrict Zammar
SY020006 Hadher Subdistrict 131.33 km² 20,834 Al-Hadher
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Zammar Subdistrict was separated from al-Zirbah Subdistrict in 2009.[3]

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