Al-Thawrah District () is a
district
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of the
Raqqa Governorate
Raqqa Governorate (, Kurdish: ''Parêzgeha Reqa'') is one of the fourteen governorates of Syria. It is situated in the north of the country and covers an area of 19,618 km2. The capital is Raqqa. The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant claim ...
in northern
Syria
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. The
administrative centre
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In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgi ...
is the city of
al-Thawrah
Al-Thawrah (), also known as Al-Tabqah (, Kurdish: ''Tebqa''), is a city in Raqqa Governorate, Syria, approximately west of Raqqa. Al-Thawrah was the original name the settlement, which up until the 1960s had been relatively small. The city ha ...
. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 159,840.
Sub-districts
The district of al-Thawrah is divided into three subdistricts or
nawāḥī (population as of 2004
):
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Al-Thawrah Subdistrict (ناحية الثورة): population 69,425.
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Al-Mansurah Subdistrict (ناحية المنصورة): population 58,727
*
Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict
Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict () is a subdistrict of Al-Thawrah District in Raqqa Governorate (Syria), approximately west of Raqqa. The subdistrict population at the 2004 census was 31,786.
Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict is bounded by Lake Assad to the West ...
(ناحية الجرنية): population 31,786.
References
Districts of Raqqa Governorate
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