Rafah Govrenorate

The Rafah Governorate (Arabic: محافظة رفح‎) is an admeenistrative destrict o the Palestinian Naitional Authority in the soothrenmaist portion o the Gaza Strip. Its destrict caipital or muhfaza is the ceety o Rafah locatit on the border wi Egyp. Accordin tae the Palestinian Central Bureau o Statistics the govrenorate haed a population o 171,363 in mid-year 2006. It contains the closed doun Yasser Arafat Internaitional Airport.

Localities

  • al-Bayuk
  • al-Mawasi
  • al-Qarya as-Suwaydiya
  • Rafah (capital)
  • Shokat as-Sufi

Refugee camps

  • Tall as-Sultan
  • Rafah camp

See an aa

References

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