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

• Govrenorates o Palestine

References

• http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/gaza_strip_1999.jpg
• http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop16.aspx Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine