Hasakah District

Hasakah District منطقة الحسكة Navçeya Hesekê
District
Location of Hasakah District within Hasakah Governorate
Hasakah District Location in Syria
Coordinates (Hasakah): 36.5°N 40.75°E / 36.5; 40.75
Country	Syria
Governorate	Hasakah
Seat	Hasakah
Subdistricts	4 nawāḥī
Area
• Total	5,808.42 km2 (2,242.64 sq mi)
Population  (2004)
• Total	356,189
• Density	61.3229/km2 (158.826/sq mi)
Geocode	SY0800

Hasakah District (Arabic: منطقة الحسكة, romanized: manṭiqat al-Ḥasaka; Kurdish: Navçeya Hesekê) is a district of Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria. The administrative centre for the district is the city of Hasakah. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 356,189.

Demographics

In 1939, French mandate authorities reported the following population numbers for the different ethnic and religious groups in al-Hasakah area.

District	Arab	Kurd	Christian	Armenian	Assyrian
City centre	7133	360	5700	500
Tel Tamer					8767
Ras al-Ayn	2283	1025	2263
Shaddadi	2610		6
Tel Brak	4509	905		200

Subdistricts

The district of al-Hasakah is divided into four subdistricts or nawāḥī (population as of 2004):

Subdistricts of al-Hasakah District

PCode	Name	Area	Population	Villages	Seat
SY080000	Hasakah Subdistrict	2,509.56 km2	251,570	108	al-Hasakah
SY080001	Tell Tamer Subdistrict	1,111.89 km2	50,982	13	Tell Tamer
SY080004	Bir al-Helou al-Wardiya Subdistrict	915.05 km2	38,833	72	Bir al-Helou
SY080006	al-Hawl Subdistrict	1,271.92 km2	14,804	22	al-Hawl