Syria
NW Syria
Aleppo Governorate

Aleppo

Aleppo is the largest city in , with a population of 2.1 million in 2021. One of the oldest continuously-inhabited cities in the world, it has a wealth of historical sites, and its old city is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: City with 2,130,000 residents
  • Description: city in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
  • Also known as: “Alep”, “Aleppe”, “Aleppo City”, “Aleppo, Aleppo”, “Aleppo, Mount Simeon”, “Aleppo, Syria”, “Berea”, “Halab”, “Khalepion”, “Madīnat Ḩalab”, and “الشهباء”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Mosque of Aleppo and Aleppo Old City.

Mosque
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The , also known as the Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo, was the largest and one of the oldest in the city of Aleppo, Syria, first built during the Umayyad Caliphate.

Archaeological site
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The Ancient City of Aleppo is the historic city centre of Aleppo, Syria. Prior to the Syrian Civil War, many districts of the ancient city remained essentially unchanged since they were initially constructed between the 11th and 16th centuries.

Photo: Memorino, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a large medieval fortified palace in the centre of the old city of Aleppo, northern . It is considered to be one of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al Jdeida.

Neighborhood
Al-Jdayde is a historic predominantly Christian neighbourhood of Aleppo. Noted for its winding narrow alleys, richly decorated mansions and churches—it is an area of significant cultural and historical interest.

Aleppo

Latitude
36.1992° or 36° 11′ 57″ north
Longitude
37.1637° or 37° 9′ 49″ east
Population
2,130,000
Elevation
401 metres (1,316 feet)
IATA airport code
ALP
United Nations Location Code
SY ALP
Open location code
8G8V55X7+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32520143
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
170063
Wiki­data ID
Q41183
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Aleppo” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Halab”
  • Afrikaans: “Aleppo”
  • Albanian: “Aleppo”
  • Albanian: “Halepi”
  • Amharic: “ሐለብ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βέροια”
  • Arabic: “حلب”
  • Arabic: “محافظة حلب”
  • Arabic: “مدينة حلب”
  • Armenian: “Հալեպ”
  • Asturian: “Alepu”
  • Avaric: “ХӀалаб”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hələb şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hələb”
  • Bashkir: “Алеппо”
  • Bashkir: “Хәләб”
  • Basque: “Alepo”
  • Basque: “Aleppo”
  • Basque: “Halab”
  • Belarusian: “Алепа”
  • Belarusian: “Халеб”
  • Bengali: “আলেপ্পো”
  • Bosnian: “Halep”
  • Breton: “Aleppo”
  • Bulgarian: “Алепо”
  • Bulgarian: “Бероеа”
  • Bulgarian: “Халеб”
  • Bulgarian: “Халеп”
  • Burmese: “အယ်လက်ပိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Alep”
  • Catalan: “Aleppo”
  • Catalan: “Berea de Síria”
  • Catalan: “Halab”
  • Catalan: “Khalab”
  • Catalan: “Khalap”
  • Catalan: “Khalman”
  • Cebuano: “Aleppo”
  • Central Bikol: “Aleppo”
  • Central Kurdish: “حەلەب”
  • Chechen: “Халеб”
  • Chechen: “Хьалаб”
  • Chinese: “Aleppo”
  • Chinese: “阿勒坡”
  • Chinese: “阿勒頗”
  • Chinese: “阿勒颇”
  • Chuvash: “Алеппо”
  • Classical Syriac: “ܚܠܒ”
  • Corsican: “Aleppu”
  • Croatian: “Alep”
  • Croatian: “Alepo”
  • Czech: “Aleppo”
  • Czech: “Halab”
  • Czech: “Haláb”
  • Danish: “Aleppo”
  • Danish: “Halab”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Heleb”
  • Dutch: “Aleppo”
  • Eastern Mari: “Халеб”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حلب”
  • Esperanto: “Alepo”
  • Esperanto: “Aleppo”
  • Esperanto: “Halepo”
  • Estonian: “Aleppo”
  • Estonian: “Halab”
  • Estonian: “Ḩalab”
  • Estonian: “Haleb”
  • Finnish: “Aleppo”
  • Finnish: “Halab”
  • French: “Alep”
  • French: “Aleppo”
  • Galician: “Alepo”
  • Galician: “Khalap”
  • Galician: “Reino de Khalap”
  • Georgian: “ალეპო”
  • Georgian: “ჰალაბი”
  • German: “Aleppo”
  • German: “Beroia”
  • German: “Halab”
  • Greek: “Αλέπο”
  • Greek: “Αλέππο”
  • Greek: “Χαλέπι”
  • Guarani: “Alepo”
  • Gujarati: “અલેપ્પો”
  • Hausa: “Aleppo”
  • Hebrew: “אלפו”
  • Hebrew: “ח’לב”
  • Hebrew: “חאלב”
  • Hebrew: “חלב (עיר)”
  • Hebrew: “חלב”
  • Hindi: “अलेपो”
  • Hindi: “अलेप्पो”
  • Hindi: “हलब”
  • Hindi: “हैलाब”
  • Hungarian: “Aleppo”
  • Hungarian: “Aleppó”
  • Hungarian: “Halab”
  • Hungarian: “Halap”
  • Hungarian: “Haleb”
  • Icelandic: “Aleppó”
  • Ido: “Aleppo”
  • Indonesian: “Aleppo”
  • Interlingua: “Aleppo”
  • Interlingue: “Aleppo”
  • Irish: “Aleppo”
  • Italian: “Aleppo”
  • Italian: “Beroea”
  • Japanese: “アレッポ”
  • Japanese: “ハラブ”
  • Javanese: “Aleppo”
  • Kabyle: “Ḥaleb”
  • Kalaallisut: “Aleppo”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲೆಪ್ಪೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಹಲಬ”
  • Kazakh: “Алеппо”
  • Kazakh: “Халеб”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Alepo”
  • Kirghiz: “Халеб”
  • Korean: “알레포”
  • Korean: “알렙”
  • Korean: “할렙”
  • Kurdish: “Haleb”
  • Kurdish: “Heleb”
  • Latin: “Beroea”
  • Latin: “Halapia”
  • Latvian: “Alepo”
  • Latvian: “Aleppo”
  • Latvian: “Halaba”
  • Latvian: “Haleba”
  • Latvian: “Halepa”
  • Limburgan: “Aleppo”
  • Lithuanian: “Alepas”
  • Lithuanian: “Beroja”
  • Lithuanian: “Chalebas”
  • Lithuanian: “Halab”
  • Malagasy: “Aleppo”
  • Malay: “Aleppo”
  • Malayalam: “Aleppo”
  • Malayalam: “അലിപ്പൊ”
  • Malayalam: “അലെപ്പോ”
  • Malayalam: “ആലപ്പോ”
  • Malayalam: “ആലെപ്പോ”
  • Maltese: “Aleppo”
  • Marathi: “अलेप्पो”
  • Mazanderani: “حلب”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aleppo”
  • Mingrelian: “ალეპო”
  • Moksha: “Алэппо”
  • Mongolian: “Алеппо”
  • Mongolian: “Халеб хот”
  • Navajo: “Hókʼą́ą́ʼ Bineʼadziihii”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aleppo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Halab”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Haleb”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aleppo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Halab”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Halep”
  • Norwegian: “Aleppo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Alèp”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܠܒ”
  • Ossetian: “Алеппо”
  • Ossetian: “Халеб”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਲਬ”
  • Persian: “آلپو”
  • Persian: “الپو”
  • Persian: “حلب”
  • Polish: “Aleppo”
  • Polish: “Ḥalab”
  • Polish: “Halep”
  • Portuguese: “Alepo”
  • Portuguese: “Aleppo”
  • Portuguese: “Beroea”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade antiga de alepo”
  • Portuguese: “Halab”
  • Pushto: “حلب”
  • Quechua: “Aleppo”
  • Quechua: “Halap”
  • Romanian: “Alep”
  • Romanian: “Aleppo”
  • Russia Buriat: “Халеб”
  • Russian: “Алеппо” (historical)
  • Russian: “Халеб”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱞᱮᱯᱯᱳ”
  • Scots: “Aleppo”
  • Serbian: “Aleppo”
  • Serbian: “Алеп”
  • Serbian: “Алепо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alep”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alepo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aleppo”
  • Sicilian: “Aleppu”
  • Silesian: “Aleppo”
  • Sindhi: “حلب شهر”
  • Sinhala: “අලෙප්පෝ”
  • Sinhala: “ඇලෙප්පෝ”
  • Slovak: “Aleppo”
  • Slovak: “Halab”
  • Slovenian: “Alep”
  • Slovenian: “Alepo”
  • Slovenian: “Aleppo”
  • Slovenian: “Halab”
  • Slovenian: “Haleb”
  • Somali: “Xalab”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حلب”
  • Spanish: “Alepo”
  • Spanish: “Aleppo”
  • Spanish: “Allepo”
  • Spanish: “Halab”
  • Spanish: “Halep”
  • Spanish: “حلب”
  • Swahili: “Aleppo”
  • Swedish: “Aleppo (provinshuvudstad)”
  • Swedish: “Aleppo”
  • Swedish: “Alippo”
  • Swedish: “Halab”
  • Swedish: “Haleb”
  • Swedish: “Halep”
  • Swedish: “Halepo”
  • Swedish: “Haleppo”
  • Tagalog: “Aleppo”
  • Tajik: “Алеппо”
  • Tajik: “Ҳалаб”
  • Talysh: “Hələb”
  • Tamil: “அலெப்போ”
  • Tatar: “Алеппо”
  • Tatar: “Хәлеб”
  • Telugu: “అలెప్పో”
  • Thai: “อะเลปโป”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “حلب”
  • Turkish: “Aleppo”
  • Turkish: “Halep”
  • Turkmen: “Halap”
  • Uighur: “ھەلەب”
  • Ukrainian: “Алеппо”
  • Ukrainian: “Халеб”
  • Urdu: “الیپو”
  • Urdu: “حلب”
  • Uzbek: “Halab”
  • Venetian: “Aleppo”
  • Vietnamese: “Alep”
  • Vietnamese: “Aleppo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aleppo”
  • Welsh: “Aleppo”
  • Western Armenian: “Հալէպ”
  • Western Frisian: “Aleppo”
  • Western Panjabi: “حلب”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿勒颇”
  • Yiddish: “ארם צובא”
  • Yiddish: “חאלאב”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿勒坡”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Aleppo”. Photo: Wurzelgnohm, CC0.