Safita
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.
Photo: Ahmadac, Public domain.- Type: Town with 20,300 residents
- Description: Place in Syria
- Also known as: “Borj Sâfîta”, “Burj Şāfītā”, “Khokhu”, “Safita (Syria)”, “ספיתה”, and “קסטל בלנק”
Safita
- Categories: city, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Tartus Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
34.82068° or 34° 49′ 15″ north
Longitude
36.11773° or 36° 7′ 4″ east
Population
20,300
Elevation
374 metres (1,227 feet)
Open location code
8G6RR4C9+73
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Safita” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Şāfītā”
- Arabic: “برج صافيتا”
- Arabic: “صافيتا”
- Armenian: “Սաֆիթա”
- Asturian: “Safita”
- Bulgarian: “Сафита”
- Catalan: “Safita”
- Cebuano: “Satita”
- Central Kurdish: “سافیتا”
- Chinese: “萨菲泰”
- Chinese: “薩菲泰”
- Czech: “Safita”
- Dutch: “Safita”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صافيتا”
- Finnish: “Safita”
- French: “Safita”
- Georgian: “საფიტა”
- German: “Safita”
- Greek: “Σαφίτα”
- Hebrew: “סאפיתא”
- Italian: “Safita”
- Japanese: “サフィータ”
- Korean: “사피타”
- Lithuanian: “Safita”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Safita”
- Persian: “صافیتا”
- Polish: “Safita”
- Russian: “Сафита”
- Scots: “Safita”
- Spanish: “Safita”
- Swedish: “Safita”
- Turkish: “Safita”
- Turkish: “Şafita”
- Ukrainian: “Сафіта”
- Urdu: “سافٹا”
- Urdu: “صافیتا”
- Vietnamese: “Safita”
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