As-Sarkha
Al-Sarkha, Bakh'ah or Bakh'a is a depopulated Syrian village in the Yabroud District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Al-Sarkha had a population of 1,405 in the 2004 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,410 residents
- Description: Syrian village in the Yabroud District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate
- Also known as: “Al-Sarkha” and “Bakh’a”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maaloula and Jib’adin.
Maaloula
Village
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maaloula is a town in southwestern Syria. The town is located in the Rif Dimashq Governorate and is 56 km northeast of Damascus, and is built into the rugged mountainside at an altitude of more than 1,500m. Maaloula is situated 5 km south of As-Sarkha.
Jib’adin
Village
Jubb'adin is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located northeast of Damascus in the Qalamoun Mountains. Jib’adin is situated 8 km southwest of As-Sarkha.
As-Sarkha
- Category: locality
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.88538° or 33° 53′ 7″ northLongitude
36.56332° or 36° 33′ 48″ eastPopulation
1,410Open location code
8G5RVHP7+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 573517391OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q12197622
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“As-Sarkha” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الصرخة”
- Arabic: “بخعة”
- Arabic: “بخعه”
- Dutch: “Al-Sarkha”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بخعه”
- French: “As-Sarkha”
- German: “as-Sarcha”
- German: “As-Sarcha”
- Hebrew: “א-סרח׳ה”
- Japanese: “アッ゠サルハ”
- Korean: “아싸르카”
- Persian: “بخعه”
- Polish: “As-Sarcha”
- Portuguese: “Al-Sarkha”
- Russian: “Ас-Сарха”
- Spanish: “Al-Sarja (Bajah)”
- Spanish: “Al-Sarja”
- Urdu: “بخعہ”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Sarkha (Bakhah)”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Sarkha”
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