Kafr Shams
Kafr Shams is a town in southern Syria administratively belonging to the as-Sanamayn District of the Daraa Governorate. It is 16 kilometers northwest of as-Sanamayn, just east of the Golan Heights and situated between Damascus and Daraa.- Type: Town with 12,400 residents
- Description: city in Al-Sanamayn District, Syria
- Also known as: “Kafer Chams” and “Kafr Chams”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zimrin and As-Sanamayn.
Zimrin
Village
Zimrin is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the as-Sanamayn District in the Daraa Governorate. Nearby localities include Qayta and as-Sanamayn to the east, Samlin and Inkhil to the southeast, Jasim to the south, Nimer to the southwest, al-Harra to the west, Aqraba to the northwest and Kafr Shams to the northeast. Zimrin is situated 7 km southwest of Kafr Shams.
As-Sanamayn
Town
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As-Sanamayn is a city in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate and the center of as-Sanamayn District. It is located 55 kilometres north of Daraa and 50 kilometres south of Damascus. As-Sanamayn is situated 9 km southeast of Kafr Shams.
Kafr Shams
- Categories: village, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Daraa Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.11848° or 33° 7′ 7″ northLongitude
36.1065° or 36° 6′ 23″ eastPopulation
12,400Elevation
716 metres (2,349 feet)Open location code
8G5R4494+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 567053271OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
168634Wikidata ID
Q4243751
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kafr Shams” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كفر شمس”
- Dutch: “Kafr Shams”
- French: “Kafr Chamse”
- German: “Kafr Schams”
- Hebrew: “כפר שמס”
- Japanese: “カフル・シャムス”
- Korean: “카프르샴스”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kafr Shams”
- Persian: “كفر شمس”
- Persian: “کفر شمس”
- Polish: “Kafr Szams”
- Russian: “Кафар-Шамс”
- Russian: “Кафр-Шамс”
- Ukrainian: “Кафр-Шамс”
- Vietnamese: “Kafr Shams”
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