Tadmur District ( ar-at, منطقة تدمر,
manṭiqat Tadmur) 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 county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
of the
Homs Governorate
Homs Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حمص / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥimṣ'') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in central Syria. Its area differs in various sources, from to . It is thus geographic ...
in central
Syria.
Administrative centre is the city of
Tadmur
Palmyra (; ar, تَدْمُر, Tadmor; Palmyrene: ''Tadmor'') is a city in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate. It is located in an oasis in the middle of the Syrian Desert northeast of Damascus and southwest of the Eu ...
, near ancient
Palmyra
Palmyra (; Palmyrene: () ''Tadmor''; ar, تَدْمُر ''Tadmur'') is an ancient city in present-day Homs Governorate, Syria. Archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early secon ...
/Tadmor. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 76,942.
Sub-districts
The district of Tadmur is divided into two sub-districts or
nawāḥī (population as of 2004
):
*
Tadmur Subdistrict (ناحية تدمر): population 55,062.
*
Al-Sukhnah Subdistrct (ناحية السخنة): population 21,880.
References
Districts of Homs Governorate
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