Kafr Ni'ma
Kafr Ni'ma | |
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Other transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | كفر نعمة |
Kafr Ni'ma Location of Kafr Ni'ma within the Palestinian territories | |
Coordinates: 31°55′39″N 35°05′43″E / 31.92750°N 35.09528°ECoordinates: 31°55′39″N 35°05′43″E / 31.92750°N 35.09528°E | |
Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
Government | |
• Type | Municipality |
Population (2007) | |
• Jurisdiction | 3,750 |
Kafr Ni'ma (Arabic: كفر نعمة) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 13 kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Kfar Ni'ma had a population of 681 inhabitants, in 170 houses.[1] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 3,750 inhabitants in 2007.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p.50
- ↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.113.
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 295)
- Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3. (pp. 167–168)
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2. (p. 120)
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 230)
External links
- Welcome To Kafr Ni'ma
- SWP map 14, IAA
- SWP map 14, Wikimedia commons
- Kafr Ni’ma Village (fact sheet), Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
- Kafr Ni’ma Village profile, Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
- Kafr Ni’ma aerial photo, Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
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