My entire contact list on my iPhone 4S has disappeared

I've a lot of problems ever since I upgraded to the 7.0 IOS.  Now my entire contact list has disappeared.  I turned off my phone and turned it back on again but all that came back was the email list from Facebook..no phone numbers and not half of my entire list.
Anybody have any ideas on how to retrieve my contacts?

Can't be done on the phone with deleting them individually.  You can however download the free app My Contacts Backup.  Open this app, tap the preferences (gear) icon on the bottom right, in the screen that opens scroll to the bottom and tap Remove all contacts.

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