Middle East
Syria
Rif-dimashq Governorate

Al-Hajar al-Aswad

Al-Hajar al-Aswad is a city just 4 km south of the centre of Damascus in the of the . According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Al-Hajar al-Aswad had a population of 84,948 in the 2004 census, making it the 13th largest city per geographical entity in Syria.
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  • Type: City with 84,900 residents
  • Description: city in Syria
  • Also known as: “Al Hajar al Aswad”, “Al Ḩajar al Aswad”, “Hajar al Aswad”, “Ḩajar al Aswad”, and “Hajar Aswad”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Damascus and Shabaa.

Photo: علي الصمادي, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the capital and largest city of . A city of immense historical importance, was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.

Town
is a Syrian located in , in al-Malihah Subdistrict. had a population of 13,446 in the 2004 census. is situated 8 km east of Al-Hajar al-Aswad.

Quarter
is a neighborhood and district of the al-Salihiyah municipality of , . It had a population of 12,798 in the 2004 census. In the 1936 French Mandate census, had a population of 9,600, all Muslims. is situated 9 km north of Al-Hajar al-Aswad.

Al-Hajar al-Aswad

Latitude
33.45653° or 33° 27′ 24″ north
Longitude
36.30481° or 36° 18′ 17″ east
Population
84,900
Elevation
676 metres (2,218 feet)
Open location code
8G5RF843+JW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4035515320
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8419677
Wiki­data ID
Q1822816
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Al-Hajar al-Aswad” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الحجر الأسود”
  • Arabic: “حجر الأسود”
  • Arabic: “حي الحجر الأسود”
  • Asturian: “Al-Hajar al-Aswad”
  • Central Kurdish: “حەجەر ئەسوەد”
  • Chinese: “哈賈拉斯瓦德”
  • Dutch: “Al-Hajar al-Aswad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الحجر الاسود”
  • French: “Al-Hadjar al-Asouad”
  • French: “Al-Hajar al-Aswad”
  • German: “al-Hadschar al-Aswad”
  • German: “Al-Hadschar al-Aswad”
  • German: “Al-Hajar al-Aswad”
  • Hebrew: “אל-חג׳ר אל-אסווד”
  • Irish: “Al-Hajar al-Aswad”
  • Japanese: “アル゠ハジャル・アル゠アスワド”
  • Kazakh: “Эль -Хаджар-Эль-Асвад”
  • Korean: “알하잘알라솨드”
  • Mazanderani: “حجر الاسود”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Hajar al-Aswad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Hajar al-Aswad”
  • Persian: “حجر الاسود”
  • Polish: “Al-Hadżar al-Aswad”
  • Polish: “Al-Hajar al-Aswad”
  • Russian: “Аль-Хаджар-аль-Асвад”
  • Russian: “Эль-Хаджар-эль-Асвад”
  • Scots: “Al-Hajar al-Aswad”
  • Turkish: “Hicr”
  • Ukrainian: “Хаджар-Асвад”
  • Urdu: “الحجر الاسود، سوریہ”
  • Urdu: “الحجر الاسود، شام”
  • Vietnamese: “Al-Hajar al-Aswad”

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