Qudsaya District ( ar-at, منطقة قدسيا, manṭiqat Qudsaya) is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

of the

Rif Dimashq Governorate Rif Dimashq Governorate ( ar, محافظة ريف دمشق, ', literally, the "Governorate of the Countryside of Damascus", Damascus Suburb) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in the southwestern part of the c ...

in southern

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. Qudsaya District is located to the northwest of the

Damascus Governorate Damascus Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة دمشق ') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. Completely surrounded by the Rif Dimashq Governorate, it consists only of the city of Damascus, the capital of Syria, and the suburb o ...

and

Mount Qasioun Mount Qasioun ( ar, جَبَل قَاسِيُون, transliterated as Jabal Qāsiyūn) is a mountain overlooking the city of Damascus, Syria. It has a range of restaurants, from which the whole city can be viewed. As the city has expanded over the ...

, covering the northwestern outskirts of metropolitan

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. The administrative centre is the town of

Qudsaya Qudsaya ( ar, قدسيا, Qudsayā) is a Syrian city in Rif Dimashq Governorate and the administrative centre of Qudsaya District. The city is located on the western slope of Mount Qasioun, 7 km west of Damascus. According to the Syria Centr ...

. Until 2009, Qudsaya was a sub-district within

Markaz Rif Dimashq Markaz Rif Dimashq District ( ar-at, منطقة مركز ريف دمشق, manṭiqat Markaz Rif Dimašq) or Damascus Central Countryside District is a district of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria. Geography Markaz Rif Dimashq is loc ...

District. In February 2009, the district of Qudsaya was formed, combining the former sub-district of Qudsaya with two sub-districts from the Zabadani District.New presidential decree to form Qudsaya district
/ref> At the 2004 census, these subdistricts had a total population of 105,974 people.

Sub-districts

The district of Qudsaya is divided into three sub-districts or nawāḥī. Population figures in the table are as of 2004.

Localities

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the villages, towns and cities in the following table make up the district of Qudsaya.

References

Districts of Rif Dimashq Governorate 2009 establishments in Syria {{RifDimashqSY-geo-stub