Yarmouk

Yarmouk is a 2.11-square-kilometer district of the city of , populated by Palestinians. It is located 8 kilometers from the center of Damascus and within municipal boundaries; this was not the case when it was established in 1957.
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Photo: Tobbe, Public domain.
  • Type: City with 137,000 residents
  • Description: Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria
  • Also known as: “Al Yarmūk”, “al-Yarmuk”, “Al-Yarmuk”, “al-Yarmūk”, “Mokhayam Al-Yarmouk Camp”, “Mukhayam Yarmouk”, “Mukhayyam al Yarmūk”, “Mukhayyam al-Yarmuk”, “Yarmouk Camp”, and “Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cemetery Bab as-Saghir and Palestine Branch.

Cemetery
Photo: Toushiro, Public domain.
Bab al-Saghir Cemetery is an Islamic in , . It is about 200 meters to the southwest of the gate.

Military installation
Far' Falastine, also known as Branch 235, was a prison operated by Military Intelligence Directorate of Ba'athist Syria under the charge of Brig. Gen. Kamal Hassan between 2017 and 2020, located in , notorious for accounts of torture, coercive interrogation, and deplorable conditions related by its former detainees.

Hospital
Damascus Hospital also known as Al Mujtahid Hospital) in is one of the largest hospitals in . It was founded in 1947 and is run by the Ministry of Health.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Damascus and Babella.

Photo: علي الصمادي, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the capital and largest city of . A city of immense historical importance, was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.

Town
Babbila is a town in southern , administratively part of the , located on the southern outskirts of to the east of the Yarmouk Camp.

Village
Beit Sahem is a village in southern , administratively part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the , located 's southeastern outskirts.

Yarmouk

Latitude
33.4725° or 33° 28′ 21″ north
Longitude
36.3048° or 36° 18′ 17″ east
Population
137,000
Elevation
684 metres (2,244 feet)
Open location code
8G5RF8C3+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 567045696
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
166716
Wiki­data ID
Q2918779
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Yarmouk” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “اليرموك”
  • Arabic: “مخيم اليرموك”
  • Basque: “Yarmouk”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ারমুক শিবির”
  • Catalan: “Yarmouk”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەمپی یەرمووک”
  • Chinese: “雅爾矛克難民營”
  • Croatian: “Jarmuk”
  • Czech: “Jarmúk”
  • Czech: “Uprchlický tábor Jarmúk”
  • Dutch: “Jarmuk”
  • Esperanto: “Jarmuk (rifuĝejo)”
  • Esperanto: “Jarmuk”
  • Estonian: “Al-Yarmūki põgenikelaager”
  • Estonian: “Yarmūk”
  • Finnish: “Jarmukin pakolaisleiri”
  • Finnish: “Yarmoukin pakolaisleiri”
  • French: “camp de réfugiés de Yarmouk”
  • French: “Yarmouk”
  • German: “al-Jarmuk”
  • German: “Jarmuk”
  • Greek: “αλ Γιαρμούκ”
  • Hebrew: “אל-ירמוך”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה הפליטים אל-ירמוכ”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה הפליטים אל-ירמוך”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה הפליטים ירמוכ”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה הפליטים ירמוך”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה פליטים אל-ירמוכ”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה פליטים אל-ירמוך”
  • Italian: “campo palestinese di Yarmouk”
  • Japanese: “アル゠ヤルムーク”
  • Japanese: “ヤルムーク・パレスチナ難民キャンプ”
  • Japanese: “ヤルムーク”
  • Kannada: “ಯರ್ಮೂಕ್”
  • Korean: “야르무크 수용소”
  • Korean: “야르무크”
  • Persian: “اردوگاه یرموک”
  • Persian: “مخیم الیرموک”
  • Polish: “Al-Jarmuk”
  • Russian: “Аль-Ярмук”
  • Russian: “Ярмук”
  • Serbian: “Јармук”
  • Slovenian: “Jarmuk”
  • Spanish: “Campo de refugiados de Yarmouk”
  • Swedish: “Yarmuk”
  • Ukrainian: “Ярмук (табір)”
  • Ukrainian: “Ярмук”
  • Urdu: “یرموک کیمپ”
  • Vietnamese: “trại tị nạn Yarmouk”

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