Qara
Qara or Kara is a city in the An-Nabek District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. It is located between the Qalamoun Mountains and the Eastern Lebanon mountains range, 95 kilometres north of the capital Damascus on the road to the city of Homs.- Town with about 12,500 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,280 metres (4,200 feet)
- Description: place in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria
- Also known as“Qara, Syria”“Qarah”“Qarra”
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Deir Atiyah
Deir Atiyah or Dayr Atiyah is a town in Syria, located…
7 km south of Qara
Qara
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Latitude
34.15511° or 34° 9′ 18″ north
Longitude
36.74579° or 36° 44′ 45″ east
Open location code
8G6R5P4W+28
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Qara” goes by many names.
قارّةArabic
قارهArabic
مدينة قارةArabic
ԿարաArmenian
QarahAsturian
QarahCatalan
QārahCebuano
QarahDutch
カーラJapanese
카라Korean
Qarah i SyriaNorwegian Nynorsk
قارةPersian
قارهPersian
KaraPolish
КакрраRussian
КараRussian
QarahScots
Qarah, SirieScots
QaraSwedish
Qara, Rif DimashqSwedish
QaraVietnamese
Qara, SyriaVietnamese
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