Al-Mansurah Subdistrict (PCS)

Syria / ar-Raqqah / at-Tawrah /
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Arabic: ناحية المنصورة
Seat: Al-Mansurah
Area: 388.02 km²
Population (2004): 58,727
P-code: SY110301

Al-Mansurah Subdistrict is a subdistrict (nahiyah) located in Al-Thawrah District in Raqqa Governorate. It is situated south-west of Raqqa and the Euphrates river. The subdistrict population at the 2004 census was 58,727.
Al-Mansurah Subdistrict was bounded by the Euphrates river and the small Al-Thawrah subdistrict to the north and Sabka subdistrict also of Raqqa Governorate to the west.

The previous administrative centre Al-Mansurah and much of the north of the subdistrict are currently controlled by SDF and the Tabqa civilian council, following three years of control by ISIS and other rebel groups and is no longer part of the the subdistrict.

The south of the subdistrict is of the previous area of the subdistrict is under the control of the People's council of Syria government in Damascus.

Name variants: Al-Mansura, Al-Mansurah, Mansura, Mansurah

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Thawrah_District#/media/File:A... reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/MA801...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Mansura_Subdistrict
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   35°38'20"N   38°38'28"E

Comments

  • This is the Damascus-PCS governed part of Mansura subdistrict, not Tabqa subdistrict. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Thawrah_District#/media/File:Al-Mansura_nahiyah.svg http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/MA8010_SyriaGovenorateMaps_mapseries_Landscape_Aleppo.pdf.pdf
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