Sidon District

Sidon District
قضاء صيدا
District
Sidon coast
Location in Lebanon
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
CapitalSidon
Area
 • Total
106 sq mi (275 km2)
Population
 • Estimate 
(31 December 2017)
287,987
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The Sidon District (Arabic: قضاء صيدا) is a district within the South Governorate of Lebanon.

Municipalities

The following 53 municipalities are all located in the Sidon District:

Oil and petroleum

Sidon serves as the Mediterranean terminus of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, a 1,720 km (1,068.76 mi) long oil pipeline that pumps oil from the fields near Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia. The pipeline played an important role in the global trade of petroleum—helping with the economic development of Lebanon—as well as American and Middle Eastern political relations. At the time it was built in 1947, the project was considered ground-breaking and innovative with a maximum capacity of about 500,000 barrels per day (79,000 m3/d). After the 1967 Six-Day War and due to constant bickering between Saudi Arabia and Syria and Lebanon over transit fees, the emergence of oil supertankers and pipeline breakdowns, the section of the line beyond Jordan ceased operation in 1976.

The city of Sidon is the site of a large-scale oil facility constituting oil-storage tanks, an oil refinery, a thermal power plant and a fuel port. During the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli invasions, the site was bombarded several times either by Israeli war-planes or by Palestinian militia groups which lead eventually to the closure of the site. The oil tank and the refinery are in severe conditions but are now undergoing a massive rehabilitation plan put down by the Ministry of Power and Water Resources, as well as those in Tripoli in the north, to store Lebanon's future oil and natural gas supplies recently discovered offshore. For now, the facilities that still work on the site are the thermal power plant and the fuel port, which the state began to use to import oil after the pipeline ceased work in the 1970s.

Demographics

According to registered voters in 2014:

Year Christians Muslims Druze
Total Greek Catholics Maronites Other Christians Total Shias Sunnis Alawites Druze
2014[1][2]
17.42%
8.15%
7.72%
1.55%
82.16%
50.09%
32.07%
0.01%
0.05%
2022[3]
18.7%
8.73%
8.24%
1.73%
81.28%
50.21%
31.07%
0.00%
0.02%

Number of registered voters (21+ years old) over the years.

Years Women Men Total Growth (%)
2009 75,569 71,335 146,904 N/a
2010 77,073 73,120 150,193 +2.19
2011 77,963 74,573 152,536 +1.54%
2012 79,285 76,119 155,404 +1.85%
2013 81,475 77,981 159,456 2.54%
2014 82,968 79,611 162,579 +1.92%
2015 84,645 81,350 165,995 +2.06%
2016 86,062 83,543 169,605 +2.13%
2017 87,624 85,062 172,686 +1.78%
2018 89,724 86,514 176,238 +2.02%
2019 91,551 87,987 179,538 +1.84%
2020 93,494 89,467 182,961 +1.87%
2021 95,368 91,140 186,508 +1.90%
2022 97,353 92,693 190,046 +1.86%
2023 98,487 93,644 192,131 +1.09%
2024 99,955 95,037 194,992 +1.47%
2025 101,404 96,173 197,577 +1.31%
2026 N/a N/a 200,467 +1.44%
Source: DGCS [1]

References

  1. ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صيدا-قرى/المذاهب/
  2. ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صيدا-مدينة/المذاهب/
  3. ^ "Mapping Lebanon: Data and statistics". today.lorientlejour.com (in English). 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

33°33′41″N 35°22′30″E / 33.5614°N 35.375°E / 33.5614; 35.375

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.