City
Damascus
Capital of Syria
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- Umayyad Mosque’s
- Palette
- Green should be prominent in vegetation and the overall visual impression.
- Guarded against
- Not a fictional or generic city
Population1,569,394Wikidata: 1,754,000
Coordinates33.51°N, 36.29°E
Elevation680 m
Area105 km²
Time zoneAsia/DamascusUTC+3
Solar noon12:35clock runs 0.6 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Damascus and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Mataura, French Polynesia — 1,262 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| Beirut | LB | 84 km |
| Amman | JO | 175 km |
| Ramallah | PS | 206 km |
| East Jerusalem | PS | 216 km |
| Jerusalem | IL | 218 km |
| Aleppo | SY | 309 km |
| Nicosia | CY | 327 km |
| Adana | TR | 397 km |
Twinned cities
- Amman JO
- Ankara TR
- Athens GR
- Baghdad IQ
- Beirut LB
- Bucharest RO
- Budapest HU
- Buenos Aires AR
- Cairo EG
- Dubai AE
- Istanbul TR
- Madrid ES
- Rabat MA
- São Paulo BR
- Tokyo JP
- Toronto CA
- Yerevan AM
17 of 24 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →