Al-Suqaylabiyah District ( ar, السقيلبية ') is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

(

mantiqah Minṭaqah ( ; plural ''manāṭiq'' ) is a first-level administrative division in Saudi Arabia and Chad and for a second-level administrative division in several other Arab countries. It is often translated as ''region'' or ''district'', but the ...

) administratively belonging to

Hama Governorate Hama Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حماة / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥamā'') is one of the 14 Governorates of Syria, governorates of Syria. It is situated in western-central Syria, bordering Idlib Governorate, Idlib and Aleppo Governorates ...

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. At the 2004 official census, the district had a population of 240,091. Its

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is the city of

Al-Suqaylabiyah Al-Suqaylabiyah ( ar, السقيلبيه, As Suqailabiya) is a Greek Orthodox Christian Syrian city administratively belonging to Hama Governorate. Al-Suqaylabiyah is located at a height of 220 meters above sea level. According to the 2004 officia ...

. The district includes most of

Al-Ghab plain The Ghab Plain ( ar, سَهْلُ ٱلْغَابِ, Sahl al-Ġāb, literally: Forest Plain) is a fertile depression lying mainly in the Al-Suqaylabiyah District in northwest Syria. The Orontes River, flowing north, enters the Plain near Muhradah, ...

Sub-districts

The district of Hama is divided into five sub-districts or

nahiyah A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...

s (population according to 2004 official census): *

Al-Suqaylabiyah Subdistrict Al-Suqaylabiyah Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية مركز السقيلبية) is a Syrian ''nahiyah'' (subdistrict) located in Al-Suqaylabiyah District Al-Suqaylabiyah District ( ar, السقيلبية ') is a district ( mantiqah) administratively b ...

(ناحية السقيلبية): population 49,686. * Tell Salhab Subdistrict (ناحية تلسلحب): population 38,783. *

Al-Ziyarah Subdistrict Al-Ziyarah Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية الزيارة) is a Syrian ''nahiyah'' (subdistrict) located in Al-Suqaylabiyah District in Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Ziyarah Subdistrict had a population of 38,8 ...

(ناحية الزيارة): population 38,872. *

Shathah Subdistrict Shathah Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية شطحة) is a Syrian ''nahiyah'' (subdistrict) located in Al-Suqaylabiyah District in Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Shathah Subdistrict had a population of 25,273 in the 2 ...

(ناحية شطحة): population 25,273. *

Qalaat al-Madiq Subdistrict Qalaat al-Madiq Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية قلعة المضيق) is a Syrian ''nahiyah'' (subdistrict) located in al-Suqaylabiyah District in Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Qalaat al-Madiq Subdistrict had a p ...

(ناحية قلعة المضيق): population 85,597.

References

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