Middle East
Syria
Rif-dimashq Governorate

Darayya

Darayya is a suburb of in , the centre of Darayya lying 8 km south-west of the centre of Damascus. Administratively it belongs to Rif Dimashq.
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  • Type: City with 78,800 residents
  • Description: Syrian city near Damascus
  • Also known as: “Dâraiya”, “Dārayā”, “Daraye”, “Dārayyah”, “Dāreiya”, and “Deraya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mazzeh Military Airport and Embassy of Ukraine.

Aerodrome
Mezzeh Air Base is an air base located in , , Syria, south-west of the old centre of Damascus. It had one runway of 8,258 feet length, at elevation 2,407 feet.

Government office
, Damascus is the official diplomatic mission of in the Syrian Arab Republic.

Government office
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a government office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al Mazzeh and Al Midan.

Town
Photo: Wesamt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mezzeh is a municipality in , , due west of . It lies to the southwest of central Damascus, along the Mazzeh highway. It started gaining importance when the constructed , which was the main airport in Damascus until opened.

Town
is a neighbourhood and municipality in , , south of the old walled city and near the modern city centre. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 177,456.

Darayya

Latitude
33.4588° or 33° 27′ 32″ north
Longitude
36.2388° or 36° 14′ 20″ east
Population
78,800
Elevation
703 metres (2,306 feet)
Open location code
8G5RF65Q+GG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 567045909
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
170892
Wiki­data ID
Q1033066
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Darayya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “داريا”
  • Arabic: “داريّا”
  • Armenian: “Դարայա”
  • Asturian: “Darayya”
  • Catalan: “Darayya”
  • Cebuano: “Dārayyā”
  • Central Kurdish: “دارەیا”
  • Chinese: “德拉雅”
  • Chinese: “达赖亚”
  • Czech: “Darája”
  • Dutch: “Darayya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داريا”
  • Esperanto: “Daraja”
  • French: “Daraïa”
  • French: “Daraya”
  • French: “Darayya”
  • Georgian: “დარაია”
  • German: “Daraja”
  • German: “Darayya”
  • Greek: “Νταράγια”
  • Hebrew: “דאריא”
  • Hebrew: “דארייא”
  • Italian: “Daraya”
  • Italian: “Darayya”
  • Japanese: “ダーライヤー”
  • Japanese: “ダライヤ”
  • Korean: “다라이야”
  • Lithuanian: “Daraja”
  • Mazanderani: “داریا”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Darayya”
  • Persian: “داریا”
  • Polish: “Daraja”
  • Polish: “Darajja”
  • Polish: “Darayya”
  • Russian: “Дарайе”
  • Russian: “Дарайя”
  • Scots: “Darayya”
  • Serbian: “Дараја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Daraja”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Darayya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “داریا”
  • Spanish: “Daraya”
  • Swedish: “Dārayyā”
  • Tajik: “Дориё”
  • Ukrainian: “Дарая”
  • Urdu: “داریا”
  • Vietnamese: “Darayya”

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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 “Darayya”. Photo: Wisal Ahdab, CC BY-SA 3.0.