Furqlus
Furqlus is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, east of the city of Homs. Situated at the eastern approaches of the Syrian Desert, the town is located between al-Qaryatayn to the south, Sadad to the southwest, Shinshar to the west, Fatim al-Amuq and al-Sayyid to the northwest, al-Mukharram to the north and Palmyra to the east.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 670 metres (2,190 feet)
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as“Al Furqlus”“Farqalūs”“Forkloss”“Forqloss”“Fourgloss”“Fourqloss”
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Latitude
34.60638° or 34° 36′ 23″ north
Longitude
37.08745° or 37° 5′ 15″ east
Open location code
8G6VJ34P+HX
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Furqlus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الفرقلس”
- Arabic: “فرقلس”
- Arabic: “موقع الفرقلس”
- Catalan: “Furqlus”
- Dutch: “Furqlus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفرقلس”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Furqlus”
- Persian: “الفرقلس”
- Polish: “Al-Furklus”
- Russian: “Фурклус”
- Vietnamese: “Furqlus”
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