Al-Hajar al-Aswad
Al-Hajar al-Aswad is a Syrian city just 4 km south of the centre of Damascus in the Darayya District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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 Babella and Beit Sahm.
Babella
Town
Babbila is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located on the southern outskirts of Damascus to the east of the Yarmouk Camp.
Beit Sahm
Village
Beit Sahem is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located Damascus's southeastern outskirts.
Al Midan
Town
Al-Midan is a neighbourhood and municipality in Damascus, Syria, south of the old walled city and near the modern city centre. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 177,456.
Al-Hajar al-Aswad
- Categories: big city, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.45653° or 33° 27′ 24″ northLongitude
36.30481° or 36° 18′ 17″ eastPopulation
84,900Elevation
676 metres (2,218 feet)Open location code
8G5RF843+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 4035515320OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
8419677Wikidata 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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