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.
  • City with 84,900 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 676 metres (2,218 feet)
  • Description: city in Syria
  • Also known as
    “Ḩajar al Aswad”
    “Hajar Aswad”

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Al-Hajar al-Aswad

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Latitude
33.45653° or 33° 27′ 24″ north
Longitude
36.30481° or 36° 18′ 17″ east
Open location code
8G5RF843+JW
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Open­Street­Map feature
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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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