Al-Qusayr District
Al-Qusayr District is a district of the Homs Governorate in central Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Al-Qusayr. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 107,470.- Type: district of Syria
- Description: district of Homs, Syria
- Also known as: “al-Qusayr”, “Al-Qusayr”, “al-Qusayr District”, “al-Qusayr, Homs”, “al-Qusayr, Syria”, and “Minţaqat al Quşayr”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kadesh and Al-Qusayr.
Kadesh
Kadesh, or Qadesh, was an ancient city of the Levant on or near the headwaters or a ford of the Orontes River. It was of some importance during the Late Bronze Age and is mentioned in the Amarna letters.Al-Qusayr
Town
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. Al-Qusayr is situated 4 km southeast of Al-Qusayr District.
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.
Al-Qusayr District
- Location: Homs Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
34.5408° or 34° 32′ 27″ north
Longitude
36.5553° or 36° 33′ 19″ east
Elevation
520 metres (1,706 feet)
Open location code
8G6RGHR4+84
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Al-Qusayr District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القصير”
- Arabic: “منطقة القصير”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Կուսեյրի գավառ”
- Cebuano: “Al-Qusayr District”
- Chinese: “Al-Qusayr Koān”
- Chinese: “古賽爾區”
- Estonian: “Al-Quşayri ringkond”
- French: “district d’Al-Qousseir”
- French: “District d’Al-Qousseir”
- French: “district d’Al-Qusayr”
- Georgian: “ალ-კუსეირის მინტაკა”
- Georgian: “ელ-კუსაირის მინტაკა”
- German: “Al-Kusair Distrikt”
- Japanese: “アル＝クサイル郡”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Al-Qusayr Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Qusayr-distriktet”
- Persian: “منطقة القصیر”
- Persian: “منطقه قصیر”
- Polish: “Al-Kusajr”
- Russian: “Мантык Эль-Кусайр”
- Russian: “Эль-Кусайр (район)”
- Russian: “Эль-Кусайр”
- Scots: “Al Qusayr Destrict”
- Swedish: “Al-Qusayr District”
- Turkish: “El Kuseyir İlçesi”
- Turkish: “El Kuseyr İlçesi”
- Turkish: “El Kuseyr”
- Turkish: “El-Kuseyir İlçesi”
- Turkish: “El-Kuseyr İlçesi”
- Turkish: “El-Kuseyr”
- Ukrainian: “Аль-Кусейр”
- Urdu: “القصیر ضلع”
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Notable Places Nearby
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