Tulkarm Governorate | |
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 2018United Nations map of the area, showing theIsraeli occupation arrangements in the governorate | |
| Coordinates:32°19′11.5″N35°5′38.5″E / 32.319861°N 35.094028°E /32.319861; 35.094028 | |
| Country |  Palestine |
| Area | |
• Total | 239 km2 (92 sq mi) |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
• Total | 158,213 |
| This figure excludes theIsraeli West Bank Settlements | |
| ISO 3166 code | PS-TKM |
| Governorates of theWest Bank (Palestine) |
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TheTulkarm Governorate (Arabic:محافظة طولكرم,romanized: Muḥāfaẓat Ṭūlkarm) is anadministrative district and one of the 16Governorates of Palestine, located in the north-westernWest Bank. The governorate's land area is 268 square kilometres.[2] According to thePalestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the governorate had a population of 172,800 inhabitants.[3] Themuhafaza or district capital is the city ofTulkarm.
During theOttoman period, the region later forming the Tulkarm Governorate belonged toJabal Nablus. Like other regions of Nablus' peripheral hinterland, it followed the provincial center, led by a closely knit web of economic, social and political relations between Nablus’ urban notables and the city’s surroundings. With the help ofrural trading partners, these urban notables established tradingmonopolies that transformed Jabal Nablus’autarkic economy into an export-driven market, shipping vast quantities ofcash crops andfinished goods to off-shoremarkets. Increasing demand for thesecommodities in the Ottoman Empire’s urban centers and in Europe spurred demographic growth and settlement expansion in the lowlands surrounding Jabal Nablus.[4][5]
In the 1860s, as part of the Ottoman Tanzimat, the area of Wadi al-Sha‘ir (Nahal Shechem) was incorporated into the Bani Ṣa‘b nahiya. Then, in the 1870s and 1880s, Bani Ṣa‘b was elevated into the level of a subdistrict with its qa’imaqam and municipal council administrated from Tulkarm.[4]
The Tulkarm Governorate has 51localities and tworefugee camps (Tulkarm Camp andNur Shams Camp). The towns and cities mentioned below have populations of over 1,000.
| Town |
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| Far'un - فرعون |
| Iktaba - إكتابا |
| 'Illar- عِلار |
| Izbat Shufa - عزبة شوفة |
| Al-Jarushiya - الجاروشية |
| Kafr Abbush - كفر عبوش |
| Kafr Jammal - كفر جمّال |
| Kafr al-Labad - كفراللبد |
| Kafr Rumman - كفر رمّان |
| Kafr Sur - كفر صور |
| Kafr Zibad - كفر زيباد |
| Khureish - خربة خريش |
| Kur - كور |
| an-Nazla al-Gharbiya - النزله الغربيه |
| an-Nazla ash-Sharqiya - النزله الشرقيه |
| an-Nazla al-Wusta - النزله الوسطه |
| Nazlat Abu Nar - نزلات ابو نار |
| Nazlat 'Isa - نزلة عيسى |
| Raml Zeita - رمل زيتة/قزازة |
| Ramin |
| Al-Ras - الرأس |
| Saffarin - سفارين |
| Seida - صيدا |
| Shufta - شوفه |
| Zeita - زيتا |
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