Ghuta
Ghouta is a countryside area in southwestern Syria that surrounds the city of Damascus along its eastern and southern rim.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Oasis
- Description: countryside and suburban area in southwestern Syria
- Also known as: “Al Ghutah”, “Damascus Ghouta”, “Ghouta”, “Ghutah Valley”, “Ghūţat Dimashq”, “Oasis of Damascus”, “Plain of Damascus”, “Rhota”, and “Rhouta”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beit Sawa and Irbin.
Beit Sawa
Town
Beit Sawa is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located just east of Damascus.
Irbin
Town
Arbin is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located just east of Jobar neighborhood of Damascus.
Abu Jarash
Quarter
Abu Jarash is a neighborhood and district of the al-Salihiyah municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 12,798 in the 2004 census. In the 1936 French Mandate census, Abu Jarash had a population of 9,600, all Muslims. Abu Jarash is situated 7 km west of Ghuta.
Ghuta
- Categories: oasis and suburb
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Ghuta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الغوطة”
- Arabic: “غوطة دمشق”
- Arabic: “غوطه دمشق”
- Bulgarian: “Гута”
- Catalan: “Ghuta”
- Cebuano: “Al Ghūţah”
- Central Kurdish: “غوتە”
- Chinese: “乌塔大马士革”
- Chinese: “古塔大马士革”
- Czech: “Ghúta”
- Dutch: “Ghouta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “غوطة دمشق”
- Esperanto: “Ghuta”
- Finnish: “Ghouta”
- Finnish: “Ghutah”
- French: “Ghouta”
- German: “Ghouta”
- German: “Ghuta”
- Greek: “Γούτα”
- Hebrew: “ע’וטה”
- Hungarian: “Gúta”
- Indonesian: “Ghouta”
- Italian: “Ghuta”
- Japanese: “グータ”
- Japanese: “東グータ地区”
- Korean: “구타 오아시스”
- Malay: “Ghouta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ghouta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ghouta”
- Norwegian: “Ghouta”
- Persian: “غوطه”
- Polish: “Ghuta”
- Portuguese: “Ghouta”
- Pushto: “غوطه”
- Romanian: “Ghouta”
- Russian: “Аль-Гута”
- Russian: “Гута (оазис)”
- Russian: “Гута”
- Scots: “Ghouta”
- Spanish: “Guta”
- Swedish: “Al Ghūţah”
- Swedish: “Ghouta”
- Tagalog: “Ghouta”
- Turkish: “Guta”
- Ukrainian: “Гута”
- Urdu: “غوتہ (شام)”
- Urdu: “غوطہ”
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