Kafr Ni'ma

Kafr Ni'ma
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	كفر نعمة
Kafr Ni'ma Location of Kafr Ni'ma within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 31°55′39″N 35°05′43″E / 31.92750°N 35.09528°E / 31.92750; 35.09528Coordinates: 31°55′39″N 35°05′43″E / 31.92750°N 35.09528°E / 31.92750; 35.09528
Governorate	Ramallah & al-Bireh
Government
• Type	Municipality
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	3,750

Kafr Ni'ma (Arabic: كفر نعمة‎‎) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 13 kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Kfar Ni'ma had a population of 681 inhabitants, in 170 houses.^[1] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 3,750 inhabitants in 2007.^[2]

Footnotes

Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
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. 295)
Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3. (pp. 167–168)
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. 120)
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. (p. 230)

Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate

Cities	Beitunia al-Bireh Ramallah Rawabi (under construction)

Municipalities	Bani Zeid Beit Rima Deir Ghassana Bani Zeid al-Sharqiya 'Arura Mazari al-Nubani Beit Liqya Bir Zeit Deir Dibwan al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya Ni'lin Silwad Sinjil Turmus Ayya al-Zaitounah Abu Shukhaidem al-Mazra'a al-Qibliya al-Ittihad Beitillu Deir 'Ammar Jammala Taybeh

Village councils	Aboud Abu Qash Abwein Ajjul 'Atara Badiw al-Muarrajat Beitin Beit Ur al-Fauqa Beit Ur al-Tahta Bil'in Beit Sira Budrus Burham Burqa Deir Ibzi Deir Jarir Deir Abu Mash'al Deir Nidham Deir Qaddis Deir as-Sudan Dura al-Qar' Ein 'Arik Ein Qiniya Ein Siniya Ein Yabrud al-Janiya Jibiya Jifna Jilijliya Kafr Ein Kafr Malik Kafr Ni'ma Kharbatha al-Misbah Kharbatha Bani Harith Khirbet Abu Falah Kobar al-Lubban al-Gharbi al-Midya al-Mughayyir Nabi Salih Qarawat Bani Zeid Qibya Rammun Rantis Ras Karkar Saffa Shabtin Shuqba Surda Umm Safa Yabrud

Refugee camps	Am'ari Deir 'Ammar Jalazone Qaddura Silwad

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