Tell Abyad District
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Tell Abyad District منطقة تل أبيض |
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 Location of Tell Abyad District within Raqqa Governorate |
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| Coordinates (Tell Abyad): 36°41′51″N 38°57′24″E / 36.6975°N 38.9567°E | |
| Country |
 Syria
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| Governorate | Raqqa |
| Seat | Tell Abyad |
| Subdistricts | 3 nawāḥī |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,834.02 km2 (1,866.43 sq mi) |
| Population (2004) | 129,714 |
| Geocode | SY1102 |
Tell Abyad District (Arabic: منطقة تل أبيض, translit. manṭiqat Tall Abyaḍ; Kurdish: Devera Girê Spî) is a district of the Raqqa Governorate in northern Syria. Administrative centre is the city of Tell Abyad.
At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 129,714. The majority of inhabitants are Sunni Arabs, with a considerable Kurdish minority. According to a Turkish writer, Kurds constitute 40-45% of the population; however, a Turkish authority estimated that Arabs and Turkmen constitute 98% of the population in the Tell Abyad area. According to Kurdish, Germany-based human rights group Kurdwatch, Tell Abyad is mainly populated by Arabs, while the environs of Tell Abyad, 15% of the population is Turkmen, 10% Kurdish and the rest being Arabs.
The district of Tell Abyad is divided into three subdistricts or nawāḥī (population as of 2004):
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