Al-Shaykh Badr District
district in Tartus, Syria
Al-Shaykh Badr District (Arabic: منطقة الشيخ بدر, romanized: manṭiqat Al-Shaykh Badr) is a district of the Tartus Governorate in northwestern Syria. Administrative centre is the town of al-Shaykh Badr. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 52,981.
Sub-districts
The district of al-Shaykh Badr is divided into three sub-districts or nawāḥī (population as of 2004):
Al-Shaykh Badr Subdistrict (ناحية الشيخ بدر): population 25,324.
Brummanet al-Mashayekh Subdistrict (ناحية برمانة المشايخ): population 13,562
Al-Qamsiyah Subdistrict (ناحية القمصية): population 14,095.
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