التوزيع الجغرافي لسكان قضاء الشرقاط

Abstract EN

It's clear from the study of the geographical distribution of the residents of Al-Shirqat and its administrative units in Al-Shirqat district, the Ashur area, the Green Plain area and Tulul al-Baj area that the economic activity became the factor which controls in the population distribution where Al- Shirqat region center as more populated due to the presence of all service departments, whether they were healthy , educational or industrial .

Through the distributional image of the residents of Al-Shirqat, it became clear that there is another population concentration near the Tigris River, especially in the left coast of the river because of the ease of implementing of development plans in setting up agricultural projects, transportation ways, building advanced schools and developed healthy centers.

The exclusion of Al-Shirqat district center and the left coast of the Tigris river, with the majority of the population, makes to empty other areas of the population which is creating numerous problems such as urbanization, depriving those areas of the labor force and their markets, thus disrupting the income resources.

Ordinary agriculture, sheep and goat farming are the only profession practiced by inhabitants of those areas.

This was affected by the distribution of population in the districts by several natural and human factors.

The reason for the variation in population size between the regions of Al-Shirqat district, and it can be said that natural factors in general and water resources in particular were the reason fordrawing a map of the population distribution in Al-Shirqat.