Arwad

Arwad, the classical Aradus, is a town in on an eponymous island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is the administrative center of the Arwad Subdistrict, of which it is the only locality.
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  • Type: Village with 4,400 residents
  • Description: island in Syria
  • Also known as: “Aradus”, “Mint of Aradus”, “Rawāḑ”, and “Rouâd”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tartous.

Photo: Ahmadac, Public domain.
Tartus, an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of , is the second largest port in Syria after and had a population of 115,769 in the 2004 census before the civil war.

Arwad

Latitude
34.85613° or 34° 51′ 22″ north
Longitude
35.85855° or 35° 51′ 31″ east
Population
4,400
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SY ARW
Open location code
8G6QVV45+FC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12061053834
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
172880
Wiki­data ID
Q377802
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Arwad” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አርዋድ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἄραδος”
  • Arabic: “أرواد”
  • Arabic: “ارواد”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة أرواد”
  • Armenian: “Արվադ”
  • Basque: “Arwad”
  • Belarusian: “Арвад”
  • Bulgarian: “Аруад”
  • Catalan: “Arwad”
  • Chinese: “艾尔瓦德”
  • Chinese: “艾尔瓦德岛”
  • Czech: “Arados”
  • Dutch: “Arwad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “أرواد”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة ارواد”
  • Esperanto: “Aruad”
  • Estonian: “Arwād”
  • Finnish: “Arwad”
  • French: “Aradus”
  • French: “Arouad”
  • Galician: “Arwad”
  • Georgian: “არვადი”
  • German: “Aruad”
  • German: “Arwad”
  • Greek: “Αντιόχεια”
  • Greek: “Αρουάντ”
  • Hebrew: “ארדוס”
  • Hebrew: “ארוד”
  • Hebrew: “ארווד”
  • Hungarian: “Arvád”
  • Indonesian: “Arwad”
  • Italian: “Arados”
  • Italian: “Arwad”
  • Japanese: “アルワード”
  • Japanese: “アルワード島”
  • Korean: “아롸드”
  • Korean: “아르와드”
  • Latin: “Aradus”
  • Lithuanian: “Arvadas”
  • Lombard: “Ruad”
  • Malagasy: “Arwad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arwad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arwad”
  • Norwegian: “Arwad”
  • Persian: “ارواد”
  • Polish: “Arwad”
  • Portuguese: “Arruade”
  • Portuguese: “Arwad”
  • Romanian: “Arwad”
  • Russian: “Арвад”
  • Serbian: “Арадос”
  • Slovenian: “Arvad”
  • Spanish: “Arwad”
  • Swedish: “Arado, Arados, Arvad, Arpad, Arphad samt Antiochia i Pieria”
  • Swedish: “Arwad”
  • Thai: “อัรวาด”
  • Turkish: “Arvad”
  • Ukrainian: “Арвад”
  • Urdu: “ارواد”
  • Vietnamese: “Arwad”

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