Northern District

The Golan Heights covers a land area of 1,154 km 2 and the remainder of the Northern District covers 3,324 km 2 (3,484 km 2 including water).

• Name — Northern District • Translit Lang1 Type1 — Hebrew • Translit Lang1 Info1 — Mekhoz HaTzafon • Translit Lang1 Type — Arabic • Translit Lang1 Info — منطقة الشمالMinṭaqat ash-Shamāl • Type — Israel District of Israel • Image Map — Northern District in Israel (+disputed hatched).svg • Mapsize — 150px • Subdivision Type — Cities • Subdivision Name — 18 • Subdivision Type1 — Local Councils • Subdivision Name1 — 60 • Subdivision Type2 — Regional Councils • Subdivision Name2 — 15 • Leader Title — District Commissioner • Leader Name — Uri Ilan (acting) • Seat Type — Capital • Seat — Nof HaGalil • Seat1 Type — Largest • Seat1 — Nazareth • Area Total Km2 — 4,473 • Population Total — 1,527,800 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Population As Of — 2023 • Iso Code — IL-Z • Mapframe — yes • Mapframe Zoom — 7 • Mapframe Point — none • Mapframe Wikidata — yes The Northern District is one of Israel's six administrative districts. The Northern District has a land area of 4,473 km 2, making it the second largest district in Israel. 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 the claim is only recognized by the United States and Colombia, while the United Nations Security Council condemned the annexation in its Resolution 497 without enforcing it. The Golan Heights covers a land area of 1,154 km 2 and the remainder of the Northern District covers 3,324 km 2 (3,484 km 2 including water).

The Northern District has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa), with hot, dry summers and cool, rainy occasionally snowy winters. It is home to the wettest locations in Israel, including Harashim.

According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics data for 2022: • Total population: 1,527,800 (2022) • Ethnic: • Arabs: 816,800 (53.5%) • Jews: 647,500 (42.4%) • Others: 63,500 (4.2%) In the Israeli census, no distinction is made between Arab citizens of Israel and Syrian inhabitants of the Golan Heights, many of whom are not citizens of Israel, but of Syria. • Religions: • Jews: 647,500 (42.4%) • Muslims: 597,300 (39.1%) • Druze: 120,300 (7.9%) • Christians: 97,800 (6.4%) • Not classified: 55,600 (3.6%) • Density: 335/km 2 The Northern District is the only district of Israel where the majority of inhabitants are Arabs.

• Illustration — Geographical distribution of the main ethno-cultural communities Haifa and Northern districts • Illustration — Safed, one of the 4 holy cities in Judaism. View of the artists' quarter of Safed • Illustration — Nazareth, the largest city in the North District and hometown of Jesus. • Subdistricts • * Acre * Golan * Jezreel * Kinneret (Tiberias) * Safed • Cities — Local Councils — Regional Councils • * Acre * Afula * Arraba * Bet She'an * Karmiel * Kiryat Shmona * Ma'alot-Tarshiha * Maghar * Migdal HaEmek * Nahariyya * Nazareth * Nof HaGalil * Safed * Sakhnin * Shefa-'Amr * Tamra * Tiberias * Yokneam — * Abu Sinan * Basmat Tab'un * Beit Jann * Bi'ina * Bir al-Maksur * Bu'eine Nujeidat * Buq'ata * Daburiyya * Deir al-Asad * Deir Hanna * Eilabun * Ein Qiniyye * Ein Mahil * Fassuta * Ghajar * Hazor HaGelilit * Hurfeish * 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 Kama * Kfar Tavor * Kfar Vradim * Kisra-Sumei * Majd al-Krum * Majdal Shams * Mas'ada * Mashhad * Mazra'a * Metula * Migdal * Mi'ilya * Nahf * Peki'in * Ramat Yishai * Rameh * Reineh * Rosh Pinna * Sajur * Sha'ab * Shibli-Umm al-Ghanam * Shlomi * Tuba-Zangariyye * Tur'an * Yafa an-Naseriyye * Yanuh-Jat * Yavne'el * Yesod HaMa'ala * Yirka * Zarzir — * al-Batuf * Bustan al-Marj * Emek HaYarden * Gilboa * Golan * Jezreel Valley * Lower Galilee * Ma'ale Yosef * Matte Asher * Megiddo * Merom HaGalil * Mevo'ot HaHermon * Misgav * Upper Galilee * Emek HaMaayanot (formerly Beit She'an Valley)