Manbij District () is a

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Aleppo Governorate Aleppo Governorate ( / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥalab'' ) is one of the fourteen Governorates of Syria, governorates of Syria. It is the most populous governorate in Syria with a population of more than 4,867,000 (2011 Est.), almost 23% of the t ...

in northern

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. The administrative centre is the city of

Manbij Manbij (; ; ) is a city in the northeast of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria, west of the Euphrates. The 2004 census gives its population as nearly 100,000.

. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 408,143. A 2019 report has estimated the population of Manbij district at 450,000 with 80% of the population being

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, 15%

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and 5%

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and Circassian.

Sub-districts

The district of Manbij is divided into five subdistricts or nawāḥī (population as of 2004): The

Abu Kahf Subdistrict Abu Kahf Subdistrict () is a subdistrict of Manbij District in Aleppo Governorate of northern Syria. Administrative centre is the village Abu Kahf. The subdistrict was formed in 2009, when the southern part of Manbij Subdistrict was split apart ...

was separated from the Manbij Subdistrict in 2009.

References

Districts of Aleppo Governorate {{AleppoSY-geo-stub