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سویداء
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Suwayda (), also spelled Sweida, is a city located in southern Syria, close to the border with Jordan. It is a Druze-majority city, with small Christian and Sunni Muslim Bedouin minorities.
Suwayda is a city in southern Syria near the Jordanian border, primarily inhabited by Druze people with smaller populations of Christians and Sunni Muslim Bedouins. It matters as a significant center of Druze culture and population in Syria, a religious and ethnic group with a distinct identity in the region.
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Place details
- Locality
- السويداء
- Region
- محافظة السويداء
- Country
- سوريا
- Population
- 59,052
- Timezone
- Asia/Damascus
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.name
- Suwayda
- Settlement.other_name
- Al-Suwayda, Sweida
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Swaida_city.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Aerial view of Suwayda, October 2011
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Syria#Mediterranean east
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Suwayda within Syria
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Sweida
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Suwayda
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Subdistrict
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Suwayda
- Settlement.leader_title
- Secretary-General
- Settlement.leader_name
- Maher Ghaleb al-Andari(de facto)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- السويداء
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- البخشان
- Population
- 64730
- Elevation
- 1025
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Swaida city.jpg
- Dialing code
- 16
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- Commons category
- As-Suwayda
- native label
- السويداء
- category of associated people
- Category:People from as-Suwayda
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in as-Suwayda
- IATA airport code
- QSW
- P8168
- C.S. Herediano
- P12749
- Rönneburg
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