Rankous
Rankous or Rankus is a Syrian town and summer resort in the province's Damascus countryside located in Mount Qalamoun in Syria, 45 km from Damascus, with a total area of 22.277 km ², extends between 1650 and 2150 m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 7,720 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Rankus” and “Rannkoûs”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cherubim Saydnaya Patriarchal Monastery.
Cherubim Saydnaya Patriarchal Monastery
Monastery
Photo: Saleh.photography, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cherubim Saydnaya Patriarchal Monastery is situated 3½ km southwest of Rankous.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saidnaya.
Saidnaya
Town
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saidnaya, also transliterated as Saydnaya, Seidnaya or Sednaya, is a city located in the mountains, 1,500 m above sea level, 27 km north of the city of Damascus in Syria. Saidnaya is situated 7 km south of Rankous.
Rankous
- Categories: village, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.75611° or 33° 45′ 22″ northLongitude
36.39034° or 36° 23′ 25″ eastPopulation
7,720Elevation
1,570 metres (5,151 feet)Open location code
8G5RQ94R+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 567050148OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
165533Wikidata ID
Q3419001
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Rankous” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رنكوس”
- Cebuano: “Rankūs”
- Dutch: “Rankus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رنكوس”
- French: “Rankous”
- French: “Rankouse”
- German: “Rankus”
- Hebrew: “ראנקוס”
- Hebrew: “רנכוס”
- Japanese: “ランクース”
- Korean: “란쿠스”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rankus”
- Persian: “رنکوس”
- Polish: “Rankus”
- Russian: “Ранкус”
- Spanish: “Rankus”
- Vietnamese: “Rankous”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include مشفى رنكوس Rankous hospital and An Nabi Quraysh.
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