Kafr Rai
| Kafr Rai | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | كفر راعي |
  Kafr Rai Location of Kafr Rai within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°22′33.59″N 35°09′18.35″E / 32.3759972°N 35.1550972°ECoordinates: 32°22′33.59″N 35°09′18.35″E / 32.3759972°N 35.1550972°E | |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 7,819 |
Kafr Rai (Arabic: كفر راعي, Hebrew: כפר ראעי) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 18 km (11 miles) southwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 7,819 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[1]
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine. (p. 30)
- 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. 154)
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 216)
- 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. 137)
- 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.
External links
- Palestine remembered
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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