Douma District ( ar-at, منطقة دوما,
manṭiqat Dūmā) 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 county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
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 ...
in southern
Syria.
The second largest
district of Syria following
Tadmur
Palmyra (; ar, تَدْمُر, Tadmor; Palmyrene: ''Tadmor'') is a city in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate. It is located in an oasis in the middle of the Syrian Desert northeast of Damascus and southwest of the Eu ...
, it stretches from the northeastern outskirts of Metropolitan
Damascus to the
Jordanian border, covering large swaths of the sparsely inhabited
Syrian Desert. The
administrative centre is the city of
Douma, located just some to the northeast of Damascus.
At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 433,719.
Subdistricts
The district of Douma is divided into seven sub-districts or
nawāḥī (population ):
References
Districts of Rif Dimashq Governorate
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