Mayadin District ( ar, منطقة الميادين) is a
district
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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
Deir ez-Zor Governorate,
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 247,171. Its
administrative centre
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
is the city of
Mayadin.
Subdistricts
The district of Mayadin is divided into three subdistricts or
Nāḥiyas (population according to 2004 official census):
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Mayadin Subdistrict (ناحية الميادين): population 86,091.
*
Diban Subdistrict (ناحية ذيبان): population 65,079.
*
Al-Asharah Subdistrict (ناحية عشارة): population 96,001.
References
Districts of Deir ez-Zor Governorate
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