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Tartous

Tartous, an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of , is the second largest port in Syria after and had a population of 115,769 in the 2004 census before the civil war.
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  • Type: City with 116,000 residents
  • Description: city in Syria
  • Also known as: “Antaradus”, “Tartoûs”, and “Tartus”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tartus Port.

Photo: xslim, CC BY 2.0.

Tartous

Latitude
34.8936° or 34° 53′ 37″ north
Longitude
35.8852° or 35° 53′ 7″ east
Population
116,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SY TTS
Open location code
8G6QVVVP+C3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 192296363
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
163345
Wiki­data ID
Q174916
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Tartous” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Tartus”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αντιαράδος”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αντιάραδος”
  • Arabic: “طرطوس”
  • Arabic: “مدينة طرطوس”
  • Armenian: “Տարտուս”
  • Asturian: “Tartus”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tərtus”
  • Bashkir: “Тартус”
  • Basque: “Tartus”
  • Belarusian: “Тартус”
  • Bengali: “টারটাস”
  • Bengali: “তারতুস”
  • Bulgarian: “Тартус”
  • Catalan: “Tartus”
  • Catalan: “Tartús”
  • Cebuano: “Tartouss (kapital sa lalawigan sa Siria)”
  • Cebuano: “Tartouss”
  • Central Kurdish: “تەرتووس”
  • Chinese: “他圖斯”
  • Chinese: “塔尔图斯”
  • Chinese: “塔爾圖斯”
  • Croatian: “Tartus”
  • Czech: “Tartús”
  • Danish: “Tartus”
  • Dutch: “Tartous”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طرطوس”
  • Esperanto: “Tartus”
  • Estonian: “Tartus”
  • Estonian: “Ţarţūs”
  • Finnish: “Tartus”
  • French: “Tartous”
  • French: “Tortose”
  • Georgian: “ტარტუსი”
  • German: “Tartus”
  • Greek: “Ταρτούς”
  • Gujarati: “ટાર્ટસ”
  • Hebrew: “טרטוס”
  • Hindi: “टर्तुस”
  • Hindi: “टार्टुस”
  • Hindi: “तरतूस”
  • Hungarian: “Tartúsz”
  • Icelandic: “Tartus”
  • Indonesian: “Tartus”
  • Irish: “Tartus”
  • Italian: “Tartus”
  • Japanese: “タルトゥース”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾರ್ಟಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Тартус”
  • Korean: “타르투스”
  • Kurdish: “Tartûs”
  • Latin: “Tortosa”
  • Latvian: “Tartusa”
  • Latvian: “Tartūsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tartusas”
  • Malagasy: “Tartus”
  • Malay: “Tartus”
  • Marathi: “टॉर्टुस”
  • Mazanderani: “طرطوس”
  • Mingrelian: “ტარტუსი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tartus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tartus”
  • Norwegian: “Tartus”
  • Ossetian: “Тартус”
  • Persian: “طرطوس”
  • Polish: “Tartus”
  • Portuguese: “Tartus”
  • Romanian: “Tartus”
  • Russian: “Тартус”
  • Scots: “Tartus”
  • Serbian: “Тартус”
  • Silesian: “Tartus”
  • Sinhala: “ටාර්ටස්”
  • Slovenian: “Tartus”
  • Spanish: “Tartus”
  • Spanish: “Tartús”
  • Swedish: “Tartus”
  • Tajik: “Тартус”
  • Tamil: “டார்ட்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “టార్టాస్”
  • Thai: “ฏ็อรฏูส”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “طرطوس”
  • Turkish: “Tartus”
  • Uighur: “تەرتۇس”
  • Ukrainian: “Тартус”
  • Urdu: “طرطوس”
  • Uzbek: “Tartus”
  • Venetian: “Tartus”
  • Vietnamese: “Tartus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tartus”
  • Yue Chinese: “他圖斯”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tartous”. Photo: Ahmadac, Public domain.