Kafr Malik

Kafr Malik
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	كفر مالك
• Also spelled	Kofr Malik (official)
Kafr Malik Location of Kafr Malik within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 31°59′23″N 35°18′32″E / 31.98972°N 35.30889°ECoordinates: 31°59′23″N 35°18′32″E / 31.98972°N 35.30889°E
Governorate	Ramallah & al-Bireh
Government
• Type	Municipality
• Head of Municipality	Majid Fahmi Abdel Majid M'adi[1]
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	2,787

Kafr Malik (Arabic: كفر مالك‎‎) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 17 kilometers Northeast of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Kfar Malik had a population of 972 inhabitants, in 217 houses.^[2] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,787 inhabitants in 2007.^[3]

Footnotes

1. West Bank Local Elections ( Round two)- Successful candidates by local authority, gender and No. of votes obtained, Kofr Malik p 21
2. Mills, 1932, p.50
3. 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.113.

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. 292)
• 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. (II p. 593)
• Guérin, Victor (1874). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (pp. 208-209)
• 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. 114)
• 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)
• QSPEF July1874, p. 162

External links

• Welcome To Kafr Malik
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Kafr Malik Village (fact sheet), Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
• Kafr Malik Village profile, Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
• Kafr Malik, aerial photo, Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
• Locality Development Priorities and Needs in Kafr Malik Village, Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)