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The country of Syria is administratively subdivided into 14 governorates, which are sub-divided into 65 districts, which are further divided into 284 sub-districts. [1] Each of the governorates and districts has its own centre or capital city, except for Rif Dimashq Governorate and Markaz Rif Dimashq district. All the sub-districts have their ...
Aleppo was the most populous city in Syria, with a population of 2,132,100 as indicated in the latest official census in 2004 by the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Its subdistrict ( nahiya ) consisted of 23 localities with a collective population of 2,181,061 in 2004. [ 176 ]
Rank City Country Population Source 1 Amman Jordan 4,642,000 [1]2 Tel Aviv Israel 3,900,000 [2]3 Damascus Syria 2,503,000 [3]4 Beirut Lebanon 2,402,000 [4]5 Aleppo Syria
Syrian rebels against the country’s President Bashar Al-Assad advanced toward one of the largest cities in the country — the first time since 2016 — following a shock offensive launched by ...
The insurgents took the main northern city of Aleppo last week and have since pushed south from their enclave in northwest Syria. Fighting has raged around villages outside Hama for two days.
This page includes localities with populations over 30,000 or the administrative centers of governorates ("muhafazat") and districts ("manatiq") in Syria. Subcategories This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
Lake Assad is a large lake in Syria on the Euphrates River formed by the construction of the Tabqa Dam in 1973. The sites of Tell Abu Hureyra and Mureybet ancient Mesopotamian cities of the Euphrates, are underneath this lake. There are three dams along the Euphrates in Syria: First, the Baath Dam (Arabic: سد البعث, lit.
Suwayda (Arabic: ٱلسُّوَيْدَاء, romanized: al-Suwaydāʾ), also spelled Sweida, is a mainly Druze city located in southwestern Syria, close to the border with Jordan. It is the capital of Suwayda Governorate , one of Syria's 14 governorates , bordering Jordan in the South and Daraa Governorate in the West and Rif Dimashq ...