The Khan Yunis Governorate ( ar, محافظة خان يونس ') is one of 16

Governorates of Palestine The Governorates of Palestine are the administrative divisions of the State of Palestine. After the signing of the Oslo Accords, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were divided into three areas ( Area A, Area B, and Area C) and 16 gov ...

, located in the southern

Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza.. ...

.Khan Yunis Governorate Small Area Populations
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Its district capital is

Khan Yunis Khan Yunis ( ar, خان يونس, also spelled Khan Younis or Khan Yunus; translation: ''Caravansary fJonah'') is a city in the southern Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Khan Yunis had a population of 142,6 ...

. The governorate has a total population of approximately 280,000. Its land area is 69.61% urban, 12.8% rural and 17.57% comprising the Khan Yunis refugee camp.

Localities

Cities

Abasan al-Kabera Abasan al-Kabira in ( ar, عبسان الكبيرة) is a Palestinian people, Palestinian city located in the Khan Yunis Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip. It is connected with Khan Yunis city by a local street that crosses other villages li ...

Bani Suheila Bani Suheila ( ar, بني سهيلا) is a Palestinian town in the southern Gaza Strip part of the Khan Yunis Governorate. History The history of these towns goes back to Canaanite, Philistine, and Roman times. Before 1948, these towns boasted n ...

Municipalities

* Abasan al-Saghira * Khuza'a * al-Qarara

Village councils

* al-Fukhari * Qa' al-Kharaba * Qa' al-Qurein *

Qizan an-Najjar Qizan an-Najjar ( ar, قيزان النَجّار, also spelled Qizan al-Najar) is a Palestinian village in the southern Gaza Strip, part of the Khan Yunis Governorate. It is located along the Salah al-Din Road between Khan Yunis and Rafah. In the ...

* Umm Kameil * Umm al-Kilab

References

External links

* Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority in the Gaza Strip {{palestine-geo-stub