Al-Qusayr
Al-Qusayr is a city in western Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate. It is located about 35 kilometers south of Homs and is situated in a mountainous area overlooking Syria's border with Lebanon which lies 15 kilometres to the southwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 29,800 residents
- Description: city in western Syria
- Also known as: “Al-Kuseir”, “Al-Qusair”, “Al-Qusayr, Syria”, “El Qoussair”, “El Quseir”, “Kouseir”, “Koussaie”, “Kousseir”, “Kuseir”, “Qosair”, “Qoussaïr”, “Qusair”, “Quşayr”, and “Qusir”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ad-Daba’a and Zira’a.
Ad-Daba’a
Village
Al-Dabaah is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs. Nearby localities include Arjoun to the west, Kafr Mousa and al-Ghassaniyah to the northwest, Daminah al-Gharbiyah to the north, al-Buwaydah al-Sharqiyah and Daminah al-Sharqiyah to the northeast, Shamsin to the east and Jandar to the southeast. Ad-Daba’a is situated 6 km northeast of Al-Qusayr.
Zira’a
Village
Zira'a is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs. Situated on a hill just east of the Orontes River, nearby localities include Rableh to the immediate southwest, al-Qusayr to the north, Jandar to the northeast and Hisyah to the southeast. Zira’a is situated 6 km south of Al-Qusayr.
Arjoun
Village
Arjoun, is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs. Nearby localities include Aqrabiyah to the southwest, al-Qusayr to the southeast, al-Dabaah to the east, Kafr Mousa and al-Ghassaniya to the north and al-Houz to the northwest. Arjoun is situated 6 km northwest of Al-Qusayr.
Al-Qusayr
- Categories: city, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Homs Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
34.51072° or 34° 30′ 39″ northLongitude
36.57689° or 36° 34′ 37″ eastPopulation
29,800Elevation
541 metres (1,775 feet)Open location code
8G6RGH6G+7QOpenStreetMap ID
node 573532935OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
173322Wikidata ID
Q195410
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Al-Qusayr” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القصير”
- Asturian: “Al-Qusayr”
- Catalan: “Al-Qusayr”
- Catalan: “al-Qussayr”
- Cebuano: “Al Quşayr”
- Central Kurdish: “قوسەیر”
- Chinese: “古賽爾”
- Chinese: “古赛尔”
- Czech: “Kusajr”
- Dutch: “Al-Qusayr”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القصير”
- Finnish: “Qusayr (Syyria)”
- Finnish: “Qusayr”
- French: “Al-Qusaïr”
- French: “Qousseir”
- Georgian: “ელ-კუსაირი”
- German: “al-Kuseir”
- German: “Kusseir”
- Hebrew: “קוסייר”
- Italian: “Al-Qusayr”
- Japanese: “アル゠クサイール”
- Japanese: “アル＝クサイル”
- Japanese: “クサイル”
- Korean: “알쿠사이르”
- Korean: “쿠사이르”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Qusayr i Syria”
- Persian: “قصیر”
- Polish: “Al-Kusajr”
- Russian: “Аль-Кусайр”
- Russian: “Аль-Кусайра”
- Russian: “Эль-Кусайр”
- Scots: “Al Qusayr, Sirie”
- Scots: “Al Qusayr”
- Spanish: “Al Quseir”
- Swedish: “Al Qusayr”
- Swedish: “Al Quşayr”
- Swedish: “al-Qusayr”
- Swedish: “Al-Qusayr”
- Tunisian Arabic: “القصير”
- Turkish: “Al Qusayr”
- Turkish: “Al-Qusayr”
- Turkish: “El Kuseyir”
- Turkish: “El Kuseyr”
- Turkish: “El-Kuseyir”
- Turkish: “El-Kuseyr”
- Ukrainian: “Аль-Кусейр”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Кусейр”
- Urdu: “القصیر، شام”
- Urdu: “القیصیر، شام”
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