🇸🇾 Siria
Ar Raqqah
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. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and bishopric Callinicum was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate between 796 and 809, under the reign of Harun al-Rashid. It was also the capital of the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017. With a population of 531,952 based on the 2021 official census, Raqqa is the sixth largest city in Syria.
- Country
- 🇸🇾 Siria
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Population
- 531,952
- Time zone
- Asia/Damascus
- Coordinates
- 35.95, 39.01
How far Ar Raqqah is from other cities in Siria
- Deir ez-Zor123 km✈ 54 min · 🚗 2 h 3 min
- Al Bāb142 km✈ 55 min · 🚗 2 h 22 min
- Al Ḩasakah168 km✈ 57 min · 🚗 2 h 48 min
- Aleppo168 km✈ 57 min · 🚗 2 h 48 min
- Idlib214 km✈ 1 h 1 min · 🚗 3 h 34 min
- Ḩamāh223 km✈ 1 h 1 min · 🚗 3 h 43 min
- Al Qāmishlī233 km✈ 1 h 2 min · 🚗 3 h 53 min
- Homs248 km✈ 1 h 3 min · 🚗 4 h 8 min
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