Raqqa
Raqqa is a city in Syria on the north bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 kilometres east of Aleppo. It is located 40 kilometres east of the Euphrates Dam, Syria's largest dam.
- Type: City with 220,000 residents
- Description: city in Syria
- Also known as: “Ar Raqqah”, “ar-Rakka”, “ar-Raqa”, “ar-Raqqa”, “Ar-Raqqa”, “ar-Raqqah”, “Leontopolis”, “Rakka”, “Raqa”, “Raqqah”, and “العكيرشي”
Raqqa
- Categories: big city, populated place in Syria, and locality
- Location: Raqqa Governorate, Syrian Desert, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.9497° or 35° 56′ 59″ north
Longitude
39.0089° or 39° 0′ 32″ east
Population
220,000
Elevation
259 metres (850 feet)
Open location code
8G7XW2X5+VH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Raqqa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Afrikaans: “Raqqah”
- Albanian: “Rakka”
- Amharic: “አር ራቃህ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Καλλίνικον”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Καλλίνικος”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λεοντόπολις”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Νικηφόριον”
- Arabic: “الرقة”
- Arabic: “رقة”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Ռակկա”
- Asturian: “Al-Raqqa”
- Azerbaijani: “Ər-Rəqqə”
- Azerbaijani: “Raqqa”
- Azerbaijani: “Rəqqə”
- Basque: “Ar-Raqqa”
- Basque: “Raqqa”
- Belarusian: “Рака”
- Bengali: “আর রাক্কাহ”
- Bengali: “রাকা”
- Bengali: “রাক্কা”
- Breton: “Raqqa”
- Bulgarian: “Ал Ракка”
- Bulgarian: “Ар-Ракка”
- Catalan: “Al-Rafika”
- Catalan: “Al-Rakka”
- Catalan: “Al-Raqqa”
- Catalan: “Ar Raqqah”
- Catalan: “Ar-Rakka”
- Catalan: “Ar-Raqqa”
- Catalan: “Ar-Raqqà”
- Catalan: “Cal·linícon”
- Catalan: “Cal·linícum”
- Catalan: “Rakka”
- Catalan: “Raqqa”
- Cebuano: “Ar Raqqah”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕەققە”
- Chinese: “Al-Raqqah”
- Chinese: “拉卡”
- Chuvash: “Ар-Раккă”
- Croatian: “Al-Raka”
- Croatian: “Ar-Raqqa”
- Croatian: “Raka”
- Czech: “Ar-Raqqa”
- Czech: “Rakka”
- Danish: “Raqqa”
- Dutch: “Ar-Raqqa”
- Dutch: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Dutch: “Rakka”
- Dutch: “Raqqa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الرقه”
- Esperanto: “Ar-Raka”
- Esperanto: “Rakka”
- Estonian: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Estonian: “Raqqa”
- Finnish: “Rakka”
- Finnish: “Raqqa”
- French: “Ar Raqqa”
- French: “Ar-Raqqa”
- French: “Callinicum”
- French: “Racca”
- French: “Raqqa”
- Georgian: “რაკა”
- German: “Al-Raqqa”
- German: “Al-Raqqah”
- German: “Ar-Raqqa”
- German: “Ar-Raqqah”
- German: “Callinicum”
- German: “Kallinikon”
- German: “Rakka”
- German: “Raqqa”
- German: “Raqqah”
- German: “Reqa”
- Greek: “Ράκα”
- Greek: “Ράκκα”
- Gujarati: “આર-રક્કાહ”
- Hausa: “Ar Raqqah”
- Hebrew: “א-רקה”
- Hindi: “अर राक़्क़ाह”
- Hindi: “अल-रक़्क़ा”
- Hindi: “रक़्क़ा”
- Hungarian: “Ar-Rakka”
- Hungarian: “Callinicum”
- Hungarian: “Kallinikosz”
- Hungarian: “Rakka”
- Icelandic: “Al-Raqqah”
- Indonesian: “Ar Raqqah”
- Indonesian: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Indonesian: “Raqqa”
- Irish: “Raqqa”
- Italian: “Al-Raqqa”
- Italian: “Callinicum”
- Italian: “Nicephorium”
- Italian: “Raqqa”
- Japanese: “ラッカ”
- Javanese: “Ar Raqqah”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್ ರಕ್ಕ”
- Kannada: “ಆರ್-ರಖಖಾ”
- Kazakh: “Раққа”
- Kirghiz: “Раққа”
- Korean: “라카”
- Korean: “락까”
- Kurdish: “Raqa”
- Kurdish: “Raqe”
- Kurdish: “Raqqa”
- Kurdish: “Reqa”
- Kurdish: “Reqe”
- Latin: “Callinicum”
- Latin: “Nicephorim”
- Latvian: “Raka”
- Lithuanian: “Kalinikosas”
- Lithuanian: “Raka”
- Lithuanian: “Rakka”
- Lithuanian: “Raqqa”
- Macedonian: “Рака”
- Malay: “Ar Raqqah”
- Malay: “Raqqa”
- Malayalam: “റഖ”
- Marathi: “आर-रक्का”
- Mazanderani: “رقه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Al-Raqqah”
- Mingrelian: “რაკა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ar Raqqah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Raqqa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Norwegian: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Raqqa”
- Oromo: “Ar Raqqah”
- Ossetian: “Эр-Раккæ”
- Panjabi: “ਅਰ ਰਾਕਾਹ”
- Persian: “رقه”
- Polish: “Ar-Rakka”
- Polish: “Rakka”
- Portuguese: “Raqqa”
- Pushto: “الرقة”
- Romanian: “Rakka”
- Russian: “Ар-Ракка”
- Russian: “Каллиник”
- Russian: “Леонтополь”
- Russian: “Никефорий”
- Russian: “Никефорион”
- Russian: “Ракка”
- Russian: “Эр-Ракка”
- Scots: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Scots: “Raqqa”
- Serbian: “Рака”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ar-Raka”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ar-Rakka”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ar-Raqqa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Callinicum”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Raka”
- Sicilian: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Sinhala: “අර් -රක්ඛා”
- Sinhala: “අර් රක්ඛා”
- Slovak: “Rakka”
- Slovenian: “Ar Raka”
- Slovenian: “Raka”
- Somali: “Ar Raqqah”
- South Azerbaijani: “رقه”
- Spanish: “Al Raqa”
- Spanish: “Ar Raqqah”
- Spanish: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Spanish: “Aracte”
- Spanish: “Rakka”
- Spanish: “Raqqa”
- Spanish: “Raqqah”
- Swahili: “Ar Raqqah”
- Swedish: “al-Raqqa”
- Swedish: “ar-Raqqa”
- Swedish: “Ar-Raqqa”
- Swedish: “Raqqa”
- Swiss German: “Ar-Raqqa”
- Tajik: “Ракка”
- Tajik: “Раққа”
- Tamil: “அல்-றக்கா”
- Tamil: “ஆர் -ரக்க்ச்”
- Tatar: “Är-Raqqa”
- Tatar: “Раққа”
- Telugu: “అర్-రఖాహ్”
- Thai: “อัรร็อกเกาะฮ์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ar-Raqqa”
- Turkish: “Er-Rakka”
- Turkish: “Rakka”
- Uighur: “رەققە”
- Ukrainian: “Ар-Ракка”
- Ukrainian: “Ракка”
- Urdu: “الرقہ”
- Uzbek: “Raqqa”
- Venetian: “Al-Raqqa”
- Vietnamese: “Ar-Raqqah”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ar Raqqah”
- Waray (Philippines): “Raqqa”
- Western Armenian: “Ռաքքա”
- Western Panjabi: “رقہ”
- Wu Chinese: “拉卡”
- Yue Chinese: “拉卡”
- Zeeuws: “Ar-Raqqah”
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