Douma District


Douma District is a district of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria.
The second largest district of Syria following Tadmur, it stretches from the northeastern outskirts of Metropolitan Damascus to the Jordanian border, covering large swaths of the sparsely inhabited Syrian Desert. 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.

Sub-districts

The district of Douma is divided into seven sub-districts or nawāḥī :
CodeNameAreaPopulation
SY030200Douma Subdistrict km²
SY030201Harasta Subdistrict km²
SY030202Al-Sabe' Biyar Subdistrict km²
SY030203Al-Dumayr Subdistrict km²
SY030204Al-Nashabiyah Subdistrict km²
SY030205Al-Ghizlaniyah Subdistrict km²
SY030206Harran al-Awamid Subdistrict km²