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Izra' District ( ar, منطقة ازرع) 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 th ...
) administratively belonging to
Daraa Governorate Daraa Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة درعا / ALA-LC: ') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in the south-west of the country and covers an area of 3,730 km2. It is bordered by Jordan to the south, Qune ...
,
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 Census it had a population of 246,804. Its
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is the city of
Izra' Izraʾ ( ar, إِزْرَع ) is a town in the Daraa Governorate of Syria, to the north of the city of Daraa. It is the administrative centre of the Izra' District, and sits at an altitude of 599 metres. Izra' had a population of 19,158 in 200 ...
.


Sub-districts

The district of Izra' is divided into six sub-districts or Nāḥiyas (population according to 2004 official census): * Izra Subdistrict (ناحية ازرع): population 56,760. * Jasim Subdistrict (ناحية جاسم): population 39,624. * Al-Hirak Subdistrict (ناحية الحراك): population 40,979. * Nawa Subdistrict (ناحية نوى): population 57,404. * Al-Shaykh Subdistrict (ناحية الشيخ مسكين): population 34,370. * Tasil Subdistrict (ناحية تسيل): population 17,778.Tasil nahiyah population
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References

Districts of Daraa Governorate {{DaraaSY-geo-stub