The Hebron Governorate ( Arabic : محافظة الخليل , romanized : Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḫalīl ) is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank .
6-624: The governorate's land area is 1,060 square kilometres (410 sq mi) and its population according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in mid-year 2019 was 1,004,510. This makes the Hebron Governorate the largest of 16 governorates in both population and land area in the Palestinian territories . The city of Hebron is the district capital or muhfaza (seat) of the governorate. The governor
12-553: Is Hussein al-Araj and its district commander is Abdel Fattah al-Ju’eidi . During the first six months of the First Intifada 42 people in Hebron Governorate were killed by the Israeli army . The Hebron Governorate has a total of seven cities and eighteen towns. The governorate also contains more than 100 Bedouin villages and settlements that are not listed below. The following localities have municipality status from
18-740: The Jerusalem Statistical Yearbook annually. The head office of the agency is in Ein Munjed Quarter, Ramallah . Besides general statistics, such as the Retail Price Index , the PCBS also carries out special projects. It conducted the first Palestinian census in 1997, although Israel prevented the national census team from surveying the population in East Jerusalem. In 2007, the second census
24-529: The State of Palestine . Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures at the national and international levels. It is a state institution that provides service to the governmental, non – governmental and private sectors in addition to research institutions and universities. It is established as an independent statistical bureau. The PCBS publishes the Statistical Yearbook of Palestine and
30-551: The Ministry of Local Government of the Palestinian National Authority . The following have populations over 1,000 persons. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics ( PCBS ; Arabic : الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني , romanized : al-Jihāz al-Markazī lil-Iḥṣāʼ al-Filasṭīnī ) is the official statistical institution of
36-569: Was carried out. In the 2007 census, a limited census was carried out in East Jerusalem. Also, the PCBS provided the 2003 "Survey on the Impact of separation Wall on the Location Where it Passed Through". The PCBS publishes the Statistical Yearbook of Palestine and the Jerusalem Statistical Yearbook annually. The PCBS has its main office in the Balu'a area of Ramallah . In October 2001,
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