Asira ash-Shamaliya | |
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Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | عصيرة الشماليّة |
• Latin | Asira al-Shamaliyeh (official) 'Asira ash-Shamaliyah (unofficial) |
Location of Asira ash-Shamaliya within Palestine | |
Coordinates: 32°15′02″N 35°16′01″E / 32.25056°N 35.26694°E | |
Palestine grid | 175/184 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Nablus |
Government | |
• Type | Municipality (from 1997) |
• Head of Municipality | Mohammad Mahmoud Jawabra |
Area | |
• Total | 29,442 dunams (29.4 km2 or 11.4 sq mi) |
Population (2017) | |
• Total | 8,813 |
• Density | 300/km2 (780/sq mi) |
Name meaning | "firewood of the north". Old: Asiret el Hatab, The difficult place of timber[1] |
Website | www.asira.org.ps |
Asira ash-Shamaliya (Arabic: عصيرة الشماليّة) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate, located 3.5 kilometers north of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of approximately 8,813 inhabitants in 2017.[2]