Shayrat
Shayrat is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southeast of Homs on the western fringes of the Syrian Desert.- Type: Village with 1,440 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Ash Sha‘īrāt”, “Ash Sha`irat”, “Ash-She’airat”, “Chaïrâte”, and “Shayrāt”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shayrat Airbase.
Shayrat Airbase
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Shayrat Airbase is home to the Syrian Air Force 50th Air Brigade located in Homs. It has two runways and around 40 hardened aircraft shelters. Shayrat Airbase is situated 3 km west of Shayrat.
Shayrat
- Categories: populated place in Syria and locality
- Location: Homs Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.49315° or 34° 29′ 35″ northLongitude
36.94666° or 36° 56′ 48″ eastPopulation
1,440Elevation
811 metres (2,661 feet)Open location code
8G6RFWVW+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 573522537OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
164306Wikidata ID
Q15277050
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Satellite Map
Discover Shayrat from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Shayrat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الشعيرات”
- Chinese: “沙伊拉特”
- Dutch: “Shayrat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الشعيرات”
- French: “Ach-Cheïrat”
- French: “Al-Chaayrate”
- German: “asch-Scheirat”
- Hebrew: “א-שעיראת”
- Japanese: “アッ゠シアイラート”
- Japanese: “シャイラト”
- Korean: “아쎼아이라트”
- Persian: “شعیرات”
- Polish: “Asz-Sza’irat”
- Portuguese: “Shayrat”
- Russian: “Аш-Шейират”
- Russian: “Шайрат”
- Russian: “Эш-Шайрат”
- Slovenian: “Šajrat”
- Spanish: “Shayrat”
- Turkish: “Şayrat”
- Ukrainian: “Шайрат”
- Vietnamese: “Shayrat”
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