Harasta
Harasta, also known as Harasta al-Basal or Hirista, is a town and northeastern suburb of Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Syria. Harasta has an altitude of 702 meters.- City with about 46,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 700 metres (2,300 feet)
- Description: City in Syria
- Also known as“Arasta Bassal”“Ḩarastā al Başal”“Harasta el Bassal”“Harastah al Başal”“Ḩiristā”
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Harasta
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Latitude
33.55774° or 33° 33′ 28″ north
Longitude
36.36682° or 36° 22′ 1″ east
Open location code
8G5RH958+3P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Harasta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حرستا”
- Armenian: “Հառասթա”
- Asturian: “Harasta”
- Catalan: “Harasta”
- Cebuano: “Ḩarastā”
- Central Kurdish: “حەرەستا”
- Chinese: “哈拉斯塔”
- Czech: “Harastá”
- Dutch: “Harasta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حرستا”
- Esperanto: “Harasta”
- French: “Harasta”
- German: “Ḥarastā”
- German: “حرستا”
- Hebrew: “חרסתא”
- Japanese: “ハラスター”
- Korean: “하라스타”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harasta”
- Persian: “حرستا”
- Polish: “Harasta”
- Portuguese: “Harasta”
- Russian: “Хараста-эль-Басаль”
- Russian: “Хараста”
- Scots: “Harasta”
- Spanish: “Harasta”
- Swedish: “Ḩarastā”
- Turkish: “Harasta”
- Ukrainian: “Хараста”
- Urdu: “حرستا”
- Vietnamese: “Harasta”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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