Majdal Shams
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- Type: Village with 11,200 residents
- Description: Druze village in the Golan Heights
- Also known as: “Druze fella”, “Majd el Chams”, “Majdal-esh-Shems”, and “Majdel Chams”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shouting hill and XO.
Shouting hill
Peak
Photo: Chaver83, Public domain.
Shouting Hill is a hill in the Golan Heights. The hill is located near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, in the area of the Golan that is occupied by Israel.
Lake Ram
Pond
Photo: אסף.צ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Ram is a crater lake in the northeastern Golan Heights near the village of Mas'ade and Mount Hermon. Lake Ram is situated 4 km south of Majdal Shams.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neve Ativ and Nimrod.
Neve Ativ
Village
Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Neve Ativ, is an Israeli settlement organized as a small Alpine-styled moshav in the Golan Heights. Located on the slopes of Mount Hermon, 2 kilometers west of Majdal Shams. it falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council. Neve Ativ is situated 3 km west of Majdal Shams.
Nimrod
Village
Nimrod is a small Israeli settlement organized as a moshav, in the Golan Heights on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, and is the highest such civilian settlement in Israeli-controlled territory at 1,110 meters above sea level. Nimrod is situated 3 km southwest of Majdal Shams.
Mas’ade
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mas'ade is a Druze village in the northern Golan Heights, Syria. It covers an area of 11,985 dunams, and in 2023 had a population of 4,161. It was given the status of a local council in 1982. Mas’ade is situated 4½ km south of Majdal Shams.
Majdal Shams
- Category: locality
- Location: Quneitra Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.26843° or 33° 16′ 6″ northLongitude
35.76937° or 35° 46′ 10″ eastPopulation
11,200Elevation
1,168 metres (3,832 feet)Open location code
8G5Q7Q99+9POpenStreetMap ID
node 2866107524OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
167444Wikidata ID
Q670612
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Majdal Shams” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مجدل الشمس”
- Arabic: “مجدل شمس.”
- Arabic: “مجدل شمس”
- Catalan: “Majdal Shams”
- Chinese: “迈季代勒舍姆斯”
- Czech: “Madždal Šams”
- Dutch: “Majdal Shams”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مجدل شمس”
- Esperanto: “Maĵdal Ŝams”
- Finnish: “Majdal Šams”
- Finnish: “Majdal Shams”
- French: “Majdal Shams”
- German: “Madschdal Schams”
- German: “Majdal Shams”
- Greek: “Ματζντάλ Σαμς”
- Hebrew: “מג’דל שמס”
- Hebrew: “מַגְ‘דַל שַׁמְס”
- Hebrew: “מגדל שמס”
- Indonesian: “Majdal Shams”
- Japanese: “マジダル・シャムス”
- Japanese: “マジュダル・シャムス”
- Korean: “마즈달 샴스”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Majdal Shams”
- Persian: “مجدل شمس”
- Polish: “Madżdal Szams”
- Russian: “Мадждаль-Шамс”
- Slovenian: “Maždal Šams”
- Spanish: “Druze fella”
- Spanish: “Majdal Shams”
- Turkish: “Majdal Şams”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Majdal Shams”. Photo: Wilson44691, Public domain.