Kafr Halab كفر حلب |
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Village | |
Location of Kafr Halab in Syria | |
Coordinates: 36°03′52″N 36°52′15″E / 36.0644°N 36.8708°E | |
Country | Syria |
Governorate | Aleppo |
District | Atarib |
Subdistrict | Urum al-Kubrah |
Population (2004) | 4,136 |
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
• Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Kafr Halab (Arabic: كفر حلب, also spelled Kafar Halab) is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Atarib District of the Aleppo Governorate, located southwest of Aleppo. Nearby localities include Zardana to the west, Kafr Nuran, al-Jinah and Ibbin Samaan to the northwest, Urum al-Sughra to the north, al-Bawabiya to the south and Maarrat al-Ikhwan and Taftanaz to the southwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kafr Halab had a population of 4,136 in the 2004 census.
Kafr Halab was visited by Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13th-century during Ayyubid rule. He described it as "a village belonging to Aleppo [Halab]."