Damascus Governorate
Damascus Governorate is one of the fourteen governorates of Syria. Completely surrounded by the Rif Dimashq Governorate, it consists only of the city of Damascus, the capital of Syria.
- Governorate of Syria with 1,710,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 708 metres (2,323 feet)
- …is also known as “Damascus City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Umayyad Mosque and Mount Qasioun.
Umayyad Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Mount Qasioun
Peak
Photo: Aziz1005, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Damascus and Babella.
Babella
Town
Babbila is a town in southern Syria, administratively… Babella is situated 7 km southeast of Damascus Governorate.
Qudsaiya
Town
Damascus Governorate
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Latitude
33.5167° or 33° 31′ north
Longitude
36.2833° or 36° 17′ east
Open location code
8G5RG78M+M8
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Welsh—“Damascus Governorate” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ዲማስቅ”
- Arabic: “دمشق”
- Arabic: “محافظة دمشق”
- Armenian: “Դամասկոսի մարզ”
- Asturian: “Damascu (Siria)”
- Asturian: “Damascu”
- Asturian: “Gobernación de Damascu”
- Azerbaijani: “Dəməşq mühafəzəsi”
- Basque: “Damasko eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Мухафаза Дамаск”
- Bengali: “দিমাশক”
- Bulgarian: “Дамаск”
- Catalan: “governació de Damasc”
- Catalan: “Governació de Damasc”
- Cebuano: “Damascus Governorate”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای دیمەشق”
- Chinese: “大馬士革省”
- Chinese: “大马士革省”
- Croatian: “Damask (pokrajina)”
- Croatian: “Damask”
- Croatian: “Guvernat Damask”
- Dutch: “Damascus Governorate”
- Esperanto: “Damaska Gubernio”
- Finnish: “Damaskoksen maakunta”
- French: “Damas”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Damas”
- Galician: “gobernación de Damasco”
- Georgian: “დამასკის მუჰაფაზა”
- Georgian: “დამასკოს მუჰაფაზა”
- German: “Gouvernement Damaskus”
- Greek: “Δαμασκός”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο της Δαμασκού”
- Hausa: “Damashq”
- Hebrew: “דמשק (מחוז)”
- Hebrew: “מחוז דמשק”
- Hindi: “दमिश्क़ प्रान्त”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Damaskus”
- Italian: “governatorato di Damasco”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Damasco”
- Japanese: “ダマスカス県”
- Javanese: “Damaskus”
- Kazakh: “Дамаск”
- Kirghiz: “Дамаск”
- Korean: “다마스쿠스주”
- Kurdish: “Parêzgeha Dimeşqê”
- Latvian: “Damaskas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Damasko muchafaza”
- Malay: “Damashq”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Damsyik”
- Maltese: “Governorat ta‘ Damasku”
- Mazanderani: “دمشق”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Damascus Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Damaskus”
- Norwegian: “Damaskus”
- Oromo: “Dimashq”
- Panjabi: “ਦਮਿਸ਼ਕ”
- Persian: “استان دمشق”
- Persian: “دمشق”
- Polish: “Damaszek-Miasto”
- Portuguese: “Damasco (Síria)”
- Portuguese: “Damasco”
- Portuguese: “distrito de Damasco”
- Portuguese: “governorato de Damasco”
- Portuguese: “mohafazah de Damasco”
- Portuguese: “muhafazah de Damasco”
- Portuguese: “província de Damasco”
- Pushto: “دمشق”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Damasc”
- Russian: “Дамаск”
- Scots: “Damascus Govrenorate”
- Serbian: “Дамаск”
- Sindhi: “دمشق گورنريٽ”
- Slovak: “Guvernorát Damask”
- Slovenian: “Guvernat Damask”
- Somali: “Dimashq”
- South Azerbaijani: “دمشق اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Damasco”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Damasco”
- Swahili: “Dimashq”
- Swedish: “Damaskus”
- Swedish: “Muhafazat Dimashq”
- Swedish: “Muhafazat Madinat Dimashq”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Дамашқ”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Димишқ”
- Tamil: “டமாஸ்கஸ் ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “டமாஸ்கஸ் வர்னரேட்”
- Tamil: “திமசுக்கு ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “திமிஷ்கு ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “திமிஷ்கு கவர்னரேட்”
- Tatar: “Дамаск”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการดามัสกัส”
- Turkish: “Şam İli”
- Turkish: “Şam Valiliği”
- Turkish: “Şam”
- Ukrainian: “Дамаск (провінція)”
- Ukrainian: “Дамаск”
- Urdu: “محافظہ دمشق”
- Uzbek: “Damashq”
- Welsh: “Rhaglawiaeth Damascus”
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