The Hebron Governorate () is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank.

The governorate's land area is 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.Hebron Governorate Statistical Yearbook No. 2; . pp. 59, 60. PCBS, November 2010. The city of Hebron is the district capital or muhfaza (seat) of the governorate.Hébron The current Governor of Hebron is Khaled Dudin.

During the first six months of the First Intifada 42 people in Hebron Governorate were killed by the Israeli army.B'Tselem information sheet (July 1989). p. 4. Localities 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.

Cities Dura Halhul Hebron (capital) Yatta ad-Dhahiriya

Municipalities The following localities have municipality status from the Ministry of Local Government of the Palestinian National Authority.

Bani Na'im Beit 'Awwa Beit Ula Beit Ummar Deir Sammit Idhna Kharas Nuba Sa'ir as-Samu Surif Tarqumiya Taffuh

Village councils The following have populations over 1,000 persons.

Al Baqa Beit 'Amra Beit Einun Beit Kahil Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa al-Burj Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa ad-Duwwara Hadab al-Fawwar al-Heila Hureiz Imreish Jinba Karma al-Karmil Khalet al-Maiyya Khursa Ruq'a al-Kum Al-Muwarraq As Simiya Khirbet Safa Khirbat al-Simia Kuseis al-Majd Qalqas Qila al-Ramadien ar-Rihiya ash-Shuyukh Shuyukh al-Arrub as-Sura at-Tabaqa al-Uddeisa Zif

Refugee camps al-Arroub al-Fawwar

Demographics YearMuslimsChristiansJewsTotalNotes and sources1538749 h7 h20 h776 h(h = households), Cohen & Lewis1774300Azulaiרבי חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי, Meir Benayhu, Mosad Harav Kook, 1959.1817500Israel Foreign Ministry18201,000William Turner182460 h(40 h Sephardim, 20 h Ashkenazim), The Missionary Herald1832400 h100 h500 h(h = households), Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Robinson Reprint: .1837423Montefiore census1838c. 6000–7,000"few"7007–8,000William McClure ThomsonWilliam McClure Thomson, The Land and the Book, Southern Palestine and Jerusalem, p. 27518391295 f1 f241(f = families), David RobertsRobinson, p. 88David Roberts, The Holy Land – 123 Coloured Facsimile Lithographs and The Journal from his visit to the Holy Land. Terra Sancta Arts. 1982. . Plate III – 13. Journal entry March 17, 1839.1840700–800James A. Huie185111,000450Official registerPEF Survey of Western Palestine, Volume III, p. 3091851400Clorinda Minor Reprint: .1866497Montefiore census1871–22,800 h200 h3,000 hOttoman records for the Syrian provincial sālnāme for these yearsAlexander Scholch (Schölch), "The Demographic Development of Palestine, 1850-1882". International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 17, No. 4. (November 1985). p. 486.18758,000–10,000500Albert Socin187517,000600Hebron Kaymakam18811,000–1,200PEF Survey of Palestine18818005,000The Friend18901,490The Jewish Encyclopedia18951,40019061,10014,000(690 Sephardim, 410 Ashkenazim)The Jewish Encyclopedia192216,0747343016,5771922 census of PalestineBarron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. 101929700Israel Foreign Ministry19300Israel Foreign Ministry193117,27710913417,5321931 census of Palestine1938020,400Village Statistics, 1938194524,400150024,560Village Statistics, 1945Government of Palestine (1945), A Survey of Palestine, Vol. 1, p. 151196137,868Jordanian censusFirst Census, Government of Jordan. 1964, p. 06West Bank, Volume 1 Table I – West Bank population according to 1967 census and Jordanian 1961 census, Levy Economics Institute196738,07313638,348Israeli censusWest Bank, Volume 1 Table 4 – Population by religion, sex, age, and type of settlement, Levy Economics Institute1997n/an/a119,093Palestinian census2007n/an/a163,146Palestinian censusThe last official census in 2007 gave 165,000.2007 Locality Population Statistics Hebron Governorate Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007 . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

See also Governorates of Palestine

References

External links Hebron Governorate Statistical Yearbook No. 3 (2011)