Hebron Governorate
Governorate of Palestine
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The Hebron Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الخليل, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat al-Khalīl) is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank.
PalestineHebron Governorate | |
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2018 United Nations map of the area, showing the Israeli occupation arrangements in the governorate | |
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 Interactive map of Hebron Governorate | |
| Coordinates: 31.5°N 35.1°E | |
| Country | Palestine |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,060 km2 (410 sq mi) |
| Population (2017 Census)[1] | |
• Total | 711,223 |
| This figure excludes the Israeli West Bank settlements | |
| ISO 3166 code | PS-HBN |
The governorate's land area is 1,060 square kilometres (410 sq mi) and its population according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in mid-year 2019 was 1,004,510. This makes the Hebron Governorate the largest of 16 governorates in both population and land area in the Palestinian territories.[2] The city of Hebron is the district capital or muhfaza (seat) of the governorate.[3] The current Governor of Hebron is Khaled Dudin.[4]
During the first six months of the First Intifada 42 people in Hebron Governorate were killed by the Israeli army.[5]
Localities
The Hebron Governorate has a total of seven cities and eighteen towns. The governorate also contains more than 100 Bedouin villages and settlements that are not listed below.[2]
Cities
- Dura
- Halhul
- Hebron (capital)
- Yatta
- ad-Dhahiriya
Municipalities
The following localities have municipality status from the Ministry of Local Government of the Palestinian National Authority.
Village councils
The following have populations over 1,000 persons.
- Al Baqa
- Beit 'Amra
- Beit Einun
- Beit Kahil
- Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa
- al-Burj
- Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa
- ad-Duwwara
- Hadab al-Fawwar
- al-Heila
- Hureiz
- Imreish
- Jinba
- Karma
- al-Karmil
- Khalet al-Maiyya
- Khursa
- Ruq'a
- al-Kum
- Al-Muwarraq
- As Simiya
- Khirbet Safa
- Khirbat al-Simia
- Kuseis
- al-Majd
- Qalqas
- Qila
- al-Ramadien
- ar-Rihiya
- ash-Shuyukh
- Shuyukh al-Arrub
- as-Sura
- at-Tabaqa
- al-Uddeisa
- Zif
Refugee camps
Demographics
| Year | Muslims | Christians | Jews | Total | Notes and sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1538 | 749 h | 7 h | 20 h | 776 h | (h = households), Cohen & Lewis[6] |
| 1774 | 300 | Azulai[7] | |||
| 1817 | 500 | Israel Foreign Ministry[8] | |||
| 1820 | 1,000 | William Turner[9] | |||
| 1824 | 60 h | (40 h Sephardim, 20 h Ashkenazim), The Missionary Herald[10] | |||
| 1832 | 400 h | 100 h | 500 h | (h = households), Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Robinson[11] | |
| 1837 | 423 | Montefiore census | |||
| 1838 | c. 6000–7,000 | "few" | 700 | 7–8,000 | William McClure Thomson[12] |
| 1839 | 1295 f | 1 f | 241 | (f = families), David Roberts[13][14] | |
| 1840 | 700–800 | James A. Huie[15] | |||
| 1851 | 11,000 | 450 | Official register[16] | ||
| 1851 | 400 | Clorinda Minor[17] | |||
| 1866 | 497 | Montefiore census | |||
| 1871–2 | 2,800 h | 200 h | 3,000 h | Ottoman records for the Syrian provincial sālnāme for these years[18] | |
| 1875 | 8,000–10,000 | 500 | Albert Socin[16] | ||
| 1875 | 17,000 | 600 | Hebron Kaymakam[16] | ||
| 1881 | 1,000–1,200 | PEF Survey of Palestine[16] | |||
| 1881 | 800 | 5,000 | The Friend[19] | ||
| 1890 | 1,490 | [20] | |||
| 1895 | 1,400 | [21] | |||
| 1906 | 1,100 | 14,000 | (690 Sephardim, 410 Ashkenazim)[22] | ||
| 1922 | 16,074 | 73 | 430 | 16,577 | 1922 census of Palestine[23] |
| 1929 | 700 | Israel Foreign Ministry[8] | |||
| 1930 | 0 | Israel Foreign Ministry[8] | |||
| 1931 | 17,277 | 109 | 134 | 17,532 | 1931 census of Palestine[24] |
| 1938 | 0 | 20,400 | Village Statistics, 1938[25] | ||
| 1945 | 24,400 | 150 | 0 | 24,560 | Village Statistics, 1945[26] |
| 1961 | 37,868 | Jordanian census[27][28] | |||
| 1967 | 38,073 | 136 | 38,348 | Israeli census[29] | |
| 1997 | n/a | n/a | 119,093 | Palestinian census[30] | |
| 2007 | n/a | n/a | 163,146 | Palestinian census[31] |