Jayrud
Jairoud is a city in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located northeast of Damascus in the Qalamoun Mountains. Nearby localities include ar-Ruhaybah, al-Qutayfah and Muadamiyat al-Qalamoun to the southwest, Yabroud, an-Nabek and Deir Atiyah to the north and al-Qaryatayn to the northeast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 24,200 residents
- Description: place in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria
- Also known as: “Djéroud”, “Djerud”, “Jaïroud”, “Jairud”, “Jerūd”, and “Jirud”
Jayrud
- Categories: city, archaeological site, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.8068° or 33° 48′ 25″ northLongitude
36.73928° or 36° 44′ 21″ eastPopulation
24,200Elevation
815 metres (2,674 feet)Open location code
8G5RRP4Q+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 567110269OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
169113Wikidata ID
Q6167965
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Jayrud” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيرود”
- Armenian: “Ջայրուդ”
- Asturian: “Jayrud”
- Catalan: “Jayrud”
- Cebuano: “Jayrūd”
- Central Kurdish: “جەیرود”
- Dutch: “Jayrud”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيرود”
- French: “Djiroud”
- French: “Jayrud”
- German: “Dschirud”
- Hebrew: “ג׳ירוד”
- Japanese: “ジルード”
- Korean: “지루드”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jayrud”
- Persian: “جیرود، سوریه”
- Persian: “جیرود”
- Polish: “Dżajrud”
- Russian: “Джайруд”
- Russian: “Джеруд”
- Russian: “Джируд”
- Spanish: “Jayrud”
- Swedish: “Jayrūd”
- Vietnamese: “Jayrud”
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