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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 32,200 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Tafass” and “Tafs”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Muzayrib and Da’el.
Muzayrib
Town
Muzayrib is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located northwest of Daraa on the Jordan–Syria border. Nearby localities include al-Shaykh Saad and Nawa to the north, Da'el, Tafas and al-Shaykh Maskin to the northeast, and al-Yadudah to the southeast. Muzayrib is situated 5 km southwest of Tafas.
Da’el
Village
Da'el is a town in southern Syria located on the old road between Daraa and Damascus, located approximately 14 kilometers north of Daraa. Administratively, it belongs to the Daraa District of the Daraa Governorate and is the center of the Da'el nahiyah which also includes one other town, Abtaa, to the immediate north. 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″ northLongitude
36.06842° or 36° 4′ 6″ eastPopulation
32,200Elevation
489 metres (1,604 feet)Open location code
8G4RP3P9+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 573514525OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
163806Wikidata ID
Q4120104
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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”
- Spanish: “Tuffas”
- Swedish: “Tafas”
- Swedish: “Ţafas”
- Turkish: “Tafas”
- Turkish: “Tefes”
- Vietnamese: “Tafas”
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