Tafas
Tafas is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located north of Daraa. Nearby localities include al-Shaykh Saad and Nawa to the north, Da'el, Abtaa and al-Shaykh Maskin to the northeast, Saham al-Jawlan and Adwan to the northwest and Muzayrib to the southwest.- Type: Town with 32,200 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Tafass”, “Tafs”, and “Tuffas”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Muzayrib and Da’el.
Muzayrib
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Da’el
Village
Da'el is a town in southern Syria located on the old… Da’el is situated 6 km east of Tafas.
Tafas
- Categories: village, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Daraa Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.73724° or 32° 44′ 14″ north
Longitude
36.06842° or 36° 4′ 6″ east
Population
32,200
Elevation
489 metres (1,604 feet)
Open location code
8G4RP3P9+V9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tafas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “طفس”
- Catalan: “Tafas”
- Cebuano: “Ţafas”
- Dutch: “Tafas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “طفس”
- Finnish: “Tafas”
- French: “Tafas”
- French: “Tafs”
- German: “Tafs”
- Hebrew: “טפס”
- Japanese: “タフス”
- Korean: “타프스”
- Persian: “طفس”
- Polish: “Tafas”
- Russian: “Тафас”
- Russian: “Тафс”
- Spanish: “Tafas”
- Swedish: “Tafas”
- Swedish: “Ţafas”
- Turkish: “Tafas”
- Turkish: “Tefes”
- Vietnamese: “Tafas”
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