Qanawat
Qanawat is a village in Syria, located 7 km north-east of Suwayda in the Jabal al-Druze region. It stands at an elevation of about 1,200 m, near a river and surrounded by woods.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,320 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Al Qanawāt”, “El Kanawat”, “El Qanawāt”, “El Qunawāt”, “Kanaouat”, “Qanaouâte”, and “Qanawāt”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include As-Suwayda.
As-Suwayda
Photo: alashkarshadi, CC BY 2.0.
Sweida is a city located in southern Syria, close to the border with Jordan. It is a Druze-majority city, with small Christian and Sunni Muslim Bedouin minorities.
Qanawat
- Categories: archaeological site, village, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: As-Suwayda District, Suwayda Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.75542° or 32° 45′ 20″ northLongitude
36.61687° or 36° 37′ 1″ eastPopulation
8,320Elevation
1,235 metres (4,052 feet)Open location code
8G4RQJ48+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 567054682OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
166141Wikidata ID
Q763167
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Urdu—“Qanawat” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κάναθα”
- Arabic: “القنوات”
- Arabic: “قنوات”
- Arabic: “قَنَوَات”
- Dutch: “Qanawat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قنوات”
- Finnish: “Kanatha”
- French: “Canatha”
- French: “Kanatha”
- French: “Qanaouat”
- French: “Qanaouate”
- French: “Qanawat”
- German: “Canatha”
- German: “Kanatha”
- German: “Kanawat”
- Hebrew: “קנואת”
- Hebrew: “קנטה”
- Indonesian: “Qanawat”
- Italian: “Canatha”
- Japanese: “カナワット”
- Japanese: “カナワト”
- Korean: “카나와트”
- Latin: “Canatha”
- Lithuanian: “Kanavatas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qanawat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qanawat”
- Norwegian: “Qanawat”
- Persian: “قنوات سوریه”
- Polish: “Kanata”
- Polish: “Kanawat”
- Portuguese: “Canatha”
- Romanian: “Qanawat”
- Russian: “Канават”
- Russian: “Эль-Канават”
- Swedish: “Qanawat”
- Ukrainian: “Канават”
- Urdu: “قنوات، سویداء”
- Urdu: “قنوات”
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