Al-Rafid
Al-Rafid is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Quneitra Governorate, in the portion of the province under the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Zone.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,260 residents
- Description: village in Syria
- Also known as: “Al-Rafid, Syria”, “Ar Rafid”, “Ar Rafīd”, “Ar-Rafid”, and “Rafid”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tel Fares Nature Reserve.
Tel Fares Nature Reserve
Protected area
Photo: Alhimik, Public domain.
Tel Fares Nature Reserve is a protected area, which is situated 3½ km west of Al-Rafid.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keshet.
Keshet
Village
Photo: yanshoof, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Keshet is an Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights, organized as a moshav shitufi. It was established in 1974 after the Yom Kippur War by young activists near the Syrian city of Quneitra, which had been occupied and subsequently razed to the ground in the Six-Day War. Keshet is situated 9 km west of Al-Rafid.
Al-Rafid
- Categories: populated place in Syria and locality
- Location: Quneitra Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.95595° or 32° 57′ 21″ northLongitude
35.90087° or 35° 54′ 3″ eastPopulation
2,260Elevation
681 metres (2,234 feet)Open location code
8G4QXW42+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 567053898OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
172973Wikidata ID
Q20986368
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Al-Rafid” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الرفيد (قرية)”
- Arabic: “الرفيد المحررة”
- Arabic: “الرفيد”
- Dutch: “Al-Rafid”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الرفيد”
- French: “Ar-Rafîd”
- German: “ar-Rafid”
- Hebrew: “א-רפיד”
- Hebrew: “א־רפיד”
- Japanese: “アッ゠ラフィード”
- Korean: “아라피드”
- Persian: “الرفید”
- Polish: “Ar-Rafid”
- Russian: “Ар-Рафи́д”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Rafid, Syria”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Rafid”
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