Deraa

Daraa is a city in southwestern 13 kilometres north of the Jordan–Syria border. It is the capital of in the region. Located 90 kilometres south of on the Damascus–Amman highway, it serves as a waystation for travelers.
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  • Type: City with 98,000 residents
  • Description: city in southwestern Syria
  • Also known as: “Adhriat”, “Adraa”, “Dar’a”, “Dara’a”, “Daraa”, “Der‘ā”, “Deraâ”, “Edrei”, “Edréi”, “Дараа”, “آناستاسیوپولیس”, “اناستاسیوپولیس”, and “দা্রা”

Deraa

Latitude
32.6228° or 32° 37′ 22″ north
Longitude
36.1068° or 36° 6′ 24″ east
Population
98,000
Elevation
489 metres (1,604 feet)
UN/LOCODE
SY QDR
Open location code
8G4RJ4F4+4P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 573516235
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
170905
Wiki­data ID
Q238217
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Deraa” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Deraa”
  • Amharic: “ዳራ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀδράα”
  • Ancient Hebrew: “אֶדְרֶעִי”
  • Arabic: “أذرِعات” (historical)
  • Arabic: “جديدة”
  • Arabic: “درعا”
  • Armenian: “Դառաա”
  • Asturian: “Daraa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dəra”
  • Basque: “Daraa”
  • Belarusian: “Дэр’а”
  • Bengali: “দারা”
  • Bengali: “দাঁরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Дераа”
  • Catalan: “Daraa”
  • Catalan: “Dera”
  • Cebuano: “Dar‘ā”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەرعا”
  • Chechen: “ДарӀа”
  • Chinese: “德拉”
  • Croatian: “Dara”
  • Czech: “Dar’á”
  • Danish: “Daraa”
  • Dutch: “Daraa”
  • Dutch: “Dera”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “درعا”
  • Esperanto: “Daraa”
  • Estonian: “Dar‘ā”
  • Estonian: “Darʿā”
  • Finnish: “Daraa”
  • French: “Deraa”
  • Georgian: “დარა”
  • German: “Daraa”
  • German: “Darʿa”
  • German: “Darʿā”
  • Greek: “Νταράα”
  • Gujarati: “દારા”
  • Hausa: “Dar’a”
  • Hebrew: “דרעא”
  • Hindi: “डारा”
  • Hindi: “दर्आ”
  • Hindi: “दारा”
  • Hungarian: “Dara”
  • Icelandic: “Daraa”
  • Indonesian: “Dar’a”
  • Indonesian: “Daraa”
  • Irish: “Daraa”
  • Italian: “Dar’a”
  • Japanese: “ダラア”
  • Japanese: “ダルアー”
  • Javanese: “Dar’a”
  • Kannada: “ದಾರಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Дара”
  • Kirghiz: “Дара”
  • Korean: “다라”
  • Korean: “다라아”
  • Kurdish: “Der’a”
  • Latin: “Adratum”
  • Latvian: “Dara”
  • Latvian: “Darā”
  • Lithuanian: “Dara”
  • Malay: “Dar’a”
  • Malay: “Daraa”
  • Marathi: “डरा”
  • Mazanderani: “درعا”
  • Mingrelian: “დარაა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Darʿā”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Daraa”
  • Norwegian: “Darʿā”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܪܥܐ”
  • Oromo: “Dar’a”
  • Ossetian: “Даръа”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਾਰਾ”
  • Persian: “درعا”
  • Polish: “Dara”
  • Portuguese: “Dara”
  • Portuguese: “Dará”
  • Portuguese: “Daraa”
  • Pushto: “درعا”
  • Romanian: “Daraa”
  • Russian: “Даръа”
  • Russian: “Деръа” (historical)
  • Scots: “Daraa”
  • Serbian: “Дара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Daraa”
  • Sinhala: “ඩරා”
  • Slovenian: “Dara”
  • Somali: “Dar’a”
  • South Azerbaijani: “درعا”
  • Spanish: “Dara”
  • Spanish: “Daraa”
  • Swahili: “Dar’a”
  • Swedish: “Dara, Syrien”
  • Swedish: “Dara”
  • Tajik: “Дара”
  • Tajik: “Даръо”
  • Tamil: “தாரா”
  • Tatar: “Дара”
  • Telugu: “డారా”
  • Thai: “ดัรอา”
  • Turkish: “Dera”
  • Uighur: “دەرئا”
  • Ukrainian: “Дар’а”
  • Ukrainian: “Дара”
  • Urdu: “درعا”
  • Uzbek: “Dara”
  • Uzbek: “Darʼo”
  • Venetian: “Dar’a”
  • Vietnamese: “Daraa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Daraa”
  • Yue Chinese: “德拉”

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