Syrian Desert
The Syrian Desert is a vast and sparsely populated region in southeastern Syria. It is the basin of the river Euphrates. It consists of the governorates of Raqqa, Al-Hasakah, Deir ez-Zor and parts of the governorates of Homs, Hama and Rif Dimashq.
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Syrian Desert
- Desert
- …lies at an elevation of 780 metres (2,559 feet)
- Description: region of desert, semi-desert and steppe of the Middle East; in parts of Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia
- Also known as“Badia”“Badiet-es Cham”“Bādiyat ash Shām”“Jordanian steppe”“Syrian steppe”
- Category: steppe
- Location
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Syrian Desert” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Siriese woestyn”
- Arabic: “بادية الشام”
- Armenian: “Սիրիական անապատ”
- Azerbaijani: “Suriya səhrası”
- Basque: “Siriako basamortua”
- Basque: “Siriar basamortua”
- Belarusian: “Сірыйская пустыня”
- Bengali: “সিরিয়া মরুভূমি”
- Bengali: “সিরীয় মরুভূমি”
- Bulgarian: “Сирийска пустиня”
- Catalan: “desert de Síria”
- Catalan: “Desert de Síria”
- Central Kurdish: “بیابانی سووریا”
- Chinese: “叙利亚沙漠”
- Croatian: “Sirijska pustinja”
- Czech: “Syrská poušť”
- Dutch: “Syrische Woestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بادية الشام”
- Esperanto: “Siria Dezerto”
- Estonian: “Süüria kõrb”
- Finnish: “Syyrian aavikko”
- French: “Chamiyé”
- French: “désert de Syrie”
- French: “Désert de Syrie”
- Galician: “Deserto sirio”
- Georgian: “სირიის უდაბნო”
- German: “Badia-Wüste”
- German: “Syrische Wüste”
- Greek: “Συριακή Έρημος”
- Hebrew: “המדבר הסורי”
- Hindi: “सीरियन”
- Hindi: “सीरियाई मरुस्थल”
- Hungarian: “Szír-sivatag”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Suriah”
- Italian: “deserto siriaco”
- Italian: “Deserto siriaco”
- Italian: “deserto siriano”
- Italian: “Deserto siriano”
- Japanese: “シリア・ステップ”
- Japanese: “シリア砂漠”
- Kannada: “ಸಿರಿಯಾ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
- Kirghiz: “Сирия чөлү”
- Korean: “시리아 사막”
- Kurdish: “Çola Sûriyê”
- Latvian: “Sīrijas tuksnesis”
- Lithuanian: “Sirijos dykuma”
- Macedonian: “Сириска Пустина”
- Malayalam: “സിറിയൻ മരുഭൂമി”
- Mazanderani: “باديه الشام”
- Minangkabau: “Gurun Suriah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den syriske ørken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den syriske ørkenen”
- Norwegian: “Den syriske ørken”
- Panjabi: “ਸੀਰੀਆਈ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
- Persian: “بیابان شام”
- Persian: “صحرای سوریه”
- Polish: “Pustynia Syryjska”
- Portuguese: “Deserto Sírio”
- Romanian: “deșertul sirian”
- Romanian: “Deșertul Sirian”
- Romanian: “stepa iordaniană”
- Russian: “Сирийская пустыня”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Shirianach”
- Serbian: “Сиријска пустиња”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sirijska pustinja”
- Slovak: “Sýrska púšť”
- Slovenian: “Sirijska puščava”
- Slovenian: “Sirska puščava”
- Spanish: “Desierto sirio”
- Spanish: “Desierto Sirio”
- Swedish: “Syriska öknen”
- Tajik: “Биёбони Сурия”
- Tamil: “சிரிய பாலைவனம்”
- Thai: “ทะเลทรายซีเรีย”
- Turkish: “Suriye Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Сирійська пустеля”
- Urdu: “صحرائے شام”
- Uzbek: “Suriya choʻli”
- Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Syria”
- Waray (Philippines): “Disyerto Siryano”
- Welsh: “Diffeithwch Syria”
- Western Armenian: “Սուրիական անապատ”
- Wu Chinese: “叙利亚沙漠”
- Yue Chinese: “敘利亞沙漠”
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