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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ahmadac, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 20,300 residents
- Description: Place in Syria
- Also known as: “Borj Sâfîta”, “Burj Şāfītā”, “Khokhu”, and “Safita (Syria)”
Safita
- Categories: city, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Tartus Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.82068° or 34° 49′ 15″ northLongitude
36.11773° or 36° 7′ 4″ eastPopulation
20,300Elevation
374 metres (1,227 feet)Open location code
8G6RR4C9+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 572551105OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
165060Wikidata ID
Q1002557
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Satellite Map
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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 (Syria)”
- German: “Safita”
- Greek: “Σαφίτα”
- Hebrew: “סאפיתא”
- Hebrew: “ספיתה”
- Hebrew: “קסטל בלנק”
- 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Safita”. Photo: Ahmadac, Public domain.