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.

Mount Simeon District منطقة جبل سمعان
District
Location of Mount Simeon District within Aleppo Governorate
Mount Simeon District Location in Syria
Coordinates (Aleppo): 36.22°N 37.17°E / 36.22; 37.17
Country	Syria
Governorate	Aleppo
Seat	Aleppo
Subdistricts	7 nawāḥī
Area
• Total	2,757.27 km2 (1,064.59 sq mi)
Population  (2004)[1]	2,413,878
Geocode	SY0200

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]):

Subdistricts of Mount Simeon District

Code	Name	Area	Population	Seat	Location
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

Zammar Subdistrict was separated from al-Zirbah Subdistrict in 2009.^[3]

See also

• Mount Simeon

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. "إحداث منطقتي دير حافر والأتارب سيساهم في النهضة التنموية بالمحافظة". Al-Jamahir (in Arabic). Aleppo. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
3. "احداث منطقتي دير حافر والاتارب تعزيزاً لمسيرة التنمية". Al-Jamahir (in Arabic). Aleppo. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2016.