North Gaza Governorate

محافظة شمال غزة North Gaza Governorate
Basic data
Country	State of Palestine
surface	61 km²
Residents	362,772 (2015)
density	5947 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	PS-NGZ
Ruins in Jabaliya

Coordinates: 31 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  N , 34 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E

The North Gaza Governorate ( Arabic محافظة شمال غزة, DMG Muḥāfaẓat Šamāl Ġazza ) is an administrative district of the Palestinian Authority or the State of Palestine . It is in the north of the Gaza Strip . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the governorate had 270,245 inhabitants (7.2 percent of the Palestinian population) in mid-2007, with an average of 40,262 households in 2007. By 2015, this number rose to 362,772.

North Gaza has five seats on the Palestinian Legislative Council . In the 2006 election, these were all won by members of the Hamas party.

Cities

• al-Baddawiyya
• Beit Hanun
• Bait Lahiya
• Izbat Beit Hanun
• Jabaliya

Web links

• Palestinian website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Table 2: Number of Population and Households in the Palestinian Territory by Governorate 2007 ( Memento of December 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 151 kB)
2. ^ Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics: Statistical Yearbook 2015 . P. 26