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.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Palmyra and Raqqa.
Palmyra
Palmyra was the only oasis in Syria and perhaps the only truly tourist town. Palmyra was known as Tadmor to the Syrians. Both meant the same thing - date palm.
Raqqa
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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.
Deir ez-Zor
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Deir ez-Zor is a city in Syria. Its name may also be spelled Deir Ezzor, Deir az-Zur or any number of other variations.
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Explore places such as Kobani and Al-Hasakah.
Kobani
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Kobanî, also Kobane, Ayn al-Arab, is a Kurdish-majority city in the Ayn al-Arab District in northern Syria, lying immediately south of the Syria–Turkey border.
Al-Hasakah
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Al-Hasakah is the capital of the Al-Hasakah Governorate in Syria. It is the eighth largest city of Syria with a population of 180.000 inhabitants. It is best known for its ethnically diverse population of Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, and smaller numbers of Armenians.
Qamishli
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Qamishli is a city in the Syrian Desert, on the border with Turkey, facing the city of Nusaybin on the Turkish side of the border.
Manbij
Manbij is a city in Syria. Manbij is an ancient city, but unfortunately almost all sights have been destroyed.
Tell Abyad
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Tell Abyad also spelled Tal Abyad, is a town in northern Syria. It is the administrative center of the Tell Abyad District within the Raqqa Governorate.
Tabqa
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Tabqa, formerly Al-Thawrah, is a city in Raqqa Governorate, Syria, approximately 55 kilometres west of Raqqa. Until the 1960s it had been a relatively small settlement. The city had a population of 69,425 as of the 2004 census.
Syrian Desert
- Type: Desert
- 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 desert”, and “Syrian steppe”
- Category: steppe
- Location: Syria, Middle East, Asia
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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”
- Chinese: “敘利亞沙漠”
- 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”
- 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: “Deşertul sirian”
- Romanian: “Deşertul Sirian”
- Romanian: “Deșertul sirian”
- Romanian: “Deșertul Sirian”
- 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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