Mahardah District ( ar, محردة ') 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 143,953. Its

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is the city of

Mahardah Maharda ( ar, محردة, Maḥarda, ), also spelled Mhardeh or Muhardah, is a city in northern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located about 23 kilometers northwest of Hama. It is situated along the Orontes River, near the G ...

Sub-districts

The district of Mahardah is divided into three 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): * Mahardah Subdistrict (ناحية محردة): population 80,165. *

Kafr Zita Subdistrict Kafr Zita Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية كفر زيتا) is a Syrian ''nahiyah'' (subdistrict) located in Mhardeh District in Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kafr Zita Subdistrict had a population of 39,302 in the ...

(ناحية كفر زيتا): population 39,302. *

Karnaz Subdistrict Karnaz Subdistrict ( ar, ناحية كرناز) is a subdistrict (''nahiya'') of the Mhardeh District in Hama Governorate, Hama. The center of this subdistrict is Karnaz. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria), Syria Central Bureau ...

(ناحية كرناز): population 25,039.

References

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