Damascus
Capital and largest city of Syria
Also known as Sham city · Jasmine city · Mint of Damascus
- Country
- Syria(since 1944)
- , Aram-Damascus(-1200–-0734)
- , Nabataeans(0037–0105)
- +13 more
- Located in
- Damascus Governorate(since 2000)
- , Roman Syria(until 0194)
- , Syria Phoenice(0194–0630)
- +2 more
- Population
- 2,685,360(2024)
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Sources- 1.“Damascus Population 2024”worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/damascus-populationRetrieved 2024-12-25
- , 2,584,771(2023)
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Sources- 1.“Damascus Population 2023”worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/damascus-populationRetrieved 2023-12-03
- , 2,502,761(2022)
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Sources- 1.“Damascus Population 2023”worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/damascus-populationRetrieved 2023-12-03
- +8 more
- 2,685,360(2024)
- Area
- 10,500 ha
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Sources- 1.“Strategy and Frameworks for the Damascus City Urbanization to Guide the City Master Plan”dma-upd.org/PublicFiles/File/Discussion%20Papers/02_Strategy%20and%20Frameworks%20for%20the%20Damascus%20City%20Urbanization%20to%20Guide%20the%20City%20Master%20Plan%20Revision_R1.pdf?lang=en
- , 7,700 ha
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Sources- 1.“Strategy and Frameworks for the Damascus City Urbanization to Guide the City Master Plan”dma-upd.org/PublicFiles/File/Discussion%20Papers/02_Strategy%20and%20Frameworks%20for%20the%20Damascus%20City%20Urbanization%20to%20Guide%20the%20City%20Master%20Plan%20Revision_R1.pdf?lang=en
- 10,500 ha
- Elevation
- 680 m
- Head of government
- Maher Marwan(since 2024)
- Founded
- 2nd millennium BCE
- Postal code
- 0100
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
210 statements · 12% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Twinned administrative body
- Ankara
- Denizli
- Istanbul
- Buenos Aires
- Emirate of Dubai
- Yerevan
- Málaga
- São Paulo(since 1999)
- Capital of
- Syria(since 1945)
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Damascus eyalet(1517–1865)
- Syria Vilayet(1865–1918)
- Damascus Governorate
- Bilad al-Sham(0636–0940)
- State of Damascus
- Syrian Federation(1923–1925)
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- Native label
- دمشق
- Official name
- دمشق
- Time of earliest written record
- 15th century BCE subject named as: T-ms-q.w · time period: Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
- Demonym
- Damascene
- دِمَشْقِيّ applies to part: masculine singular · transliteration or transcription: dimašqiyy
- دِمَشْقِيّة applies to part: feminine singular · transliteration or transcription: dimašqiyya
- damasceno
- damaskolainen
- Damaskano
- damascenus
- damaschino
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- Damasquin applies to part: masculine singular
- Damasquine applies to part: feminine singular
- Damascène applies to part: masculine singular, feminine singular
- damasceni applies to part: masculine plural
- Şamlı
On other databases
82 identifiers linking Damascus across the web's reference databases
- ArchINFORM location ID1742
- Armeniapedia ID4834
- Australian War Memorial IDPL505262
- BBC News topic IDcewrlk9x74rt
- BBC Things IDd586b611-2c3d-4ca2-a598-c7de39364bfe
- Biblissima authority IDQ27710
- CANTIC ID981058620288906706
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID04611a
- Dewey Decimal Classification2--569144
- Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID1380
- Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID21087
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Damascus
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDdamas
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)qbMKo
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)322035
- Facebook location ID107750989259872
- FactGrid item IDQ83969
- FAST ID1207112
- Freebase ID/m/02gjp
- GeoNames ID170654
- GitHub topicdamascus
- GND ID4010956-2
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDDamaskus
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)2628583
- Grove Art Online IDT021243
- Gynopedia IDDamascus
- Harper's tagdamascus
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2086499
- INaturalist place ID105941
- Interlingual Index IDi84131
- Izvestia topic IDdamask
- J9U entity ID987007557363105171
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID4861
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)11361
- JewishGen Locality ID2541260
- Joconde location IDT84-373
- Klexikon article IDDamaskus
- KSW place ID90351
- Kulturenvanteri monument ID212816
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID1740
- Lex IDDamaskus
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79143055
- Libris-URIjgvxwbg23s1j8vg
- Museum-digital place ID604
- MusicBrainz area ID725210c4-3f89-4f49-a508-794e92f700ef
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDgeo/E97DFDB0-2280-48EE-83DE-C53F8655F40F
- National Library of Brazil ID000093533
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls001141062
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX452306
- NL CR AUT IDge553249
- Nomisma IDdamascus
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning417677
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3890465
- OpenStreetMap node ID1091272140
- OpenWeatherMap city ID170654
- Orthodox Encyclopedia ID168694
- Oxford Classical Dictionary ID2007
- Pinakes city ID154
- Pleiades ID678106
- Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites IDdamascus
- Quora topic IDDamascus
- RKD thesaurus ID33803
- SNARC IDQ1468
- TDV Encyclopedia of Islam IDsam--suriye
- Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae IDD3IDW5CAPVBKTIYSD52VNEWNPY
- ToposText place ID335363UDam
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia IDdamasco
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10044404
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID9556
- UN/LOCODESYDAM
- Vatican Library VcBA ID497/2397
- VIAF cluster ID146573830
- Vici.org ID2506
- Vikidia article IDen:Damascus
- Wellcome Collection concept IDvgyp4j8a
- Who's on First ID421202165
- WikiKids IDDamascus
- WOEID1947122
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID09056411-n
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJdmdPM6p74VF9cqrcBkjC
- Yale LUX IDplace/8a2ed33a-a993-4eed-99eb-58566ff4d15d
- YSO ID173967