Masyaf District ( ar, مصياف ') is a

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(

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 Census it had a population of 169,341. Its

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is the city of

Masyaf Masyaf ( ar, مصياف ') is a city in northwestern Syria. It is the center of the Masyaf District in the Hama Governorate. As of 2004, Masyaf had a religiously diverse population of approximately 22,000 Ismailis, Alawites and Christians. The c ...

Sub-districts

The district of Masyaf 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): * Masyaf Subdistrict (ناحية مصياف): population 68,184. * Jubb Ramlah Subdistrict (ناحية جب رملة): population 39,814. *

Awj Subdistrict Awj Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية عوج) is a Syrian ''nahiyah'' (subdistrict) located in Masyaf District in Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Awj Subdistrict had a population of 33344 in the 2004 census. Refere ...

(ناحية عوج): population 33,344. * Ayn Halaqim Subdistrict (ناحية عين حلاقيم): population 16,502. * Wadi al-Uyun Subdistrict (ناحية وادي العيون): population 12,951.

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