North District (Israel)

The Northern District (, mehoz hatzafon) is one of Israel's six administrative districts. The Northern District has a land area of 4,478 km², which increases to 4,638  km² when both land and water are included. Excluding the Golan Heights, which is 1,154 km² in area, the land total comes to 3,324 km² (3,484 km² including water). The district capital and largest city in the North District is Nazareth.
The Golan Heights has been run as a sub-district of the North District of Israel since the 1981 Golan Heights Law was passed, although its de facto annexation is not internationally recognised, and the unenforced United Nations Security Council Resolution 497 declared the annexation invalid.
==Demographics==
According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics data for 2005:Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Statistical Abstract of Israel 2006 - No.57 (Hebrew, English)
* Total population: 1,216,800 (2007)
* Ethnic makeup:
** Arabs: 622,400 (52.5%)
** Jews: 523,400 (44.2%)
** Others: 39,600 (3.3%)
* Religious makeup:
** Jews: 523,400 (44.2%)
** Muslims: 443,800 (37.4%)
** Druze: 93,000 (7.8%)
** Christians: 87,500 (7.4%)
** Not classified: 35,400 (3%)
* Density: 265/km²
As such, the North District is the only district where the majority of inhabitants are Arabs.
==Administrative regions==
===Sub-districts===
The Northern District is divided into the following sub-districts:
*Safed Sub-District
*Kineret Sub-District
*Jezreel Sub-District
*Acre Sub-District
*Golan Sub-District
===Municipalities===
Cities	Local Councils	Regional Councils
* Afula
* Acre
* Bet She'an
* Karmiel
* Kiryat Shmona
* Ma'alot-Tarshiha
* Migdal HaEmek
* Nahariyya
* Nazareth
* Nazareth Illit
* Safed
* Sakhnin
* Shaghur
* Shefa-'Amr 
* Tamra
* Tiberias
* Yokneam	
*Abu Sinan
*Arraba
*Basmat Tab'un
*Beit Jann
*Bir al-Maksur
*Bu'eine Nujeidat
*Buq'ata
*Daburiyya
*Deir Hanna
*Eilabun
*Ein Qiniyye
*Ein Mahil
*Fassuta
*Ghajar
*Hurfeish
*Hazor HaGelilit
*I'billin
*Iksal
*Ilut
*Jadeidi-Makr
*Jish (also: Gush Halav)
*Julis
*Ka'abiyye-Tabbash-Hajajre
*Kabul
*Kafr Kanna
*Kafr Manda
*Kafr Yasif
*Kaukab Abu al-Hija
*Katzrin
*Kfar Vradim
*Kfar Kama
*Kfar Tavor
*Kisra-Sumei
*Maghar
*Majdal Shams
*Mas'ada
*Mashhad
*Mazra'a
*Metula
*Mevo Hama
*Migdal
*Mi'ilya
*Nahf
*Peki'in
*Rameh
*Reineh
*Ramat Yishai
*Rosh Pinna
*Sajur
*Sha'ab
*Shlomi
*Shibli-Umm al-Ghanam
*Tuba-Zangariyye
*Tur'an
*Yafa an-Naseriyye
*Yanuh-Jat
*Yavne'el
*Yesod HaMa'ala
*Yirka
*Zarzir	
*al-Batuf
*Beit She'an Valley
*Bustan al-Marj
*Emek HaYarden
*Golan
*Gilboa
*Jezreel Valley
*Lower Galilee
*Ma'ale Yosef
*Matte Asher
*Megiddo
*Merom HaGalil
*Mevo'ot HaHermon
*Misgav
*Upper Galilee
==See also==
*Districts of Israel
*Galilee
*List of Arab localities in Israel
*List of cities in Israel
==Notes==
 
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