Shufa, Tulkarm

Shufa
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	شوفه
Shufa Location of Shufa within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°16′28.50″N 35°04′58.73″E / 32.2745833°N 35.0829806°E / 32.2745833; 35.0829806Coordinates: 32°16′28.50″N 35°04′58.73″E / 32.2745833°N 35.0829806°E / 32.2745833; 35.0829806
Governorate	Tulkarm
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	1,253

Shufa (Arabic: شوفه‎‎) is a Palestinian village in the Tulkarm Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located 6 kilometers South-east of Tulkarm. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Shufa had a population of approximately 1,253 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.^[1] 5.4% of the population of Shufa were refugees in 1997.^[2] The healthcare facilities for Shufa are at Kafr al-Labad or Saffarin where the facilities are designated as MOH level 2.^[3]

Footnotes

Bibliography

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. 161)
Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 766)
Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 212)
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. 126)
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. 192)

External links

Welcome To Shufa
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons

Tulkarm Governorate

Cities	Tulkarm (Dhinnaba • Irtah • Shweikhah)

Municipalities	Anabta (Kafr Rumman) Attil Bal'a Baqa ash-Sharqiyya (Nazlat Abu Nar • an-Nazla al-Gharbiya • an-Nazla ash-Sharqiya • an-Nazla al-Wusta) Beit Lid Deir al-Ghusun 'Illar Kafr al-Labad Qaffin Zeita

Villages	Far'un Iktaba Izbat Shufa Al Jarushiya Kafr Abbush Kafr Jammal Kafr Sur Kafr Zibad Khureish Kur Nazlat 'Isa Raml Zeita Ramin al-Ras Saffarin Seida Sir Shufa

Refugee camps	Nur Shams Tulkarm camp

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