Middle East
Syria
Rif-dimashq Governorate

Harasta

Harasta, also known as Harasta al-Basal or Hirista, is a town and northeastern suburb of , Rif Dimashq, . Harasta has an altitude of 702 meters.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: City with 68,700 residents
  • Description: City in Syria
  • Also known as: “Arasta Bassal”, “Ḩarastā al Başal”, “Harasta el Bassal”, “Harastah al Başal”, and “Ḩiristā”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Irbin and Mudeira.

Town
Arbin is a town in southern , administratively part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the , located just east of neighborhood of .

Village
Madira is a Syrian located in , . According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Madira had a population of 4,308 in the 2004 census.

Town
is a suburb in southern Syria, administratively part of the , located northeast of , near Harasta in Eastern Ghouta. Formerly, it was known as Dahiyat al-Assad.

Harasta

Latitude
33.55774° or 33° 33′ 28″ north
Longitude
36.36682° or 36° 22′ 1″ east
Population
68,700
Elevation
710 metres (2,329 feet)
Open location code
8G5RH958+3P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 573518113
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
169897
Wiki­data ID
Q2013262
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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: “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”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Harasta national Hospital and دوار البلديه.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Harasta”. Photo: Yvonnefm, CC BY-SA 3.0.