Jaramana

Jaramana is a city in southern , administratively part of the in the Ghouta plain. Its location, 3 kilometers southeast of the Syrian capital, makes it a bustling town in the greater metropolitan area, with a mostly Christian and Druze population.
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  • Type: City with 114,000 residents
  • Description: city in Rif Dimashq, Syria
  • Also known as: “Djaramānā”, “Jaramānah”, “Jéramâna”, and “Jurmānā”

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City gate
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City gate
Photo: Heretiq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Damascus and Babella.

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Village
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Jaramana

Latitude
33.4864° or 33° 29′ 11″ north
Longitude
36.3483° or 36° 20′ 54″ east
Population
114,000
Elevation
670 metres (2,198 feet)
Open location code
8G5RF8PX+H8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 573517691
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
169174
Wiki­data ID
Q195531
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Jaramana” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جرمانا”
  • Armenian: “Ջարամանա”
  • Asturian: “Jaramana”
  • Bengali: “জারামানা”
  • Catalan: “Jaramana”
  • Cebuano: “Jaramānā”
  • Central Kurdish: “جەرمانا”
  • Chinese: “賈拉馬納”
  • Croatian: “Džaramana”
  • Czech: “Džaramáná”
  • Dutch: “Jaramanah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جرمانا”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝaramana”
  • Finnish: “Jaramana”
  • French: “Djaramana”
  • French: “Jaramana”
  • German: “Dscharamana”
  • German: “Jaramanah”
  • Greek: “Τζερμάνα”
  • Hebrew: “ג’רמאנא”
  • Hebrew: “ג׳רמאנא”
  • Hebrew: “ג’רמאנה”
  • Indonesian: “Jaramana”
  • Irish: “Jaramana”
  • Italian: “Jaramana”
  • Japanese: “ジャラマーナー”
  • Korean: “자라마나”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jaramana”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jaramana”
  • Persian: “جرمانا”
  • Polish: “Dżaramana”
  • Portuguese: “Jaramana”
  • Russian: “Джарамана”
  • Russian: “Джерамана”
  • Scots: “Jaramana”
  • Serbian: “Џарамана”
  • Slovenian: “Džaramana”
  • Spanish: “Jaramana”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “جرمانا”
  • Turkish: “Ceramana”
  • Ukrainian: “Джерамана”
  • Ukrainian: “Джермана”
  • Urdu: “جرمانا”
  • Urdu: “جرمانہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Jaramana”

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