Safita District
Safita District is a district of the Tartus Governorate in northwestern Syria. Administrative centre is the city of Safita. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 129,632.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of Syria with 130,000 residents
- Description: district in Tartus, Syria
- Also known as: “Minţaqat Şāfītā” and “Qaḑā’ Şāfītā”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Safita.
Safita
Town
Photo: Ahmadac, Public domain.
Safita is a city in the Tartus Governorate, western Syria, located to the southeast of Tartus and to the northwest of Krak des Chevaliers. It is situated on the tops of three hills and the valleys between them, in the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range.
Safita District
- Location: Tartus Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Safita District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صافيتا”
- Arabic: “منطقة صافيتا”
- Armenian: “Սաֆիթայի գավառ”
- Catalan: “Districte de Safita”
- Cebuano: “Safita District”
- Chinese: “Safita Koān”
- Chinese: “薩菲泰區”
- Estonian: “Şāfītā ringkond”
- Georgian: “საფითის მინტაკა”
- Georgian: “საფიტის მინტაკა”
- Japanese: “サフィータ郡”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Safita Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Safita-distriktet”
- Persian: “منطقة صافیتا”
- Persian: “منطقه صافیتا”
- Polish: “Safita”
- Russian: “Мантык Сафита”
- Russian: “Сафита”
- Scots: “Safita Destrict”
- Swedish: “Safita District”
- Ukrainian: “Сафіта (район)”
- Ukrainian: “Сафіта”
- Urdu: “صافیتا ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Safita (huyện)”
- Vietnamese: “Safita”
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