Al-Malikiyah (syr)

Al-Malikiyah

Al-Malikiyah ranks 19,262nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bro, Stockholm, Miyaki, Saga, and Deutz, Cologne. Memorable people born in Al-Malikiyah include Hevrin Khalaf, Bahoz Erdal, and Asya Abdullah. Al-Malikiyah has been the birth place of many politicians, and military personnels. Al-Malikiyah is located in Syria.

Al-Malikiyah, also known as Derik, is a city in northeastern Syria and the center of an administrative district belonging to Al-Hasakah Governorate. The district constitutes the northeastern corner of the country, and is where the Syrian Democratic Council convenes. The town is about 20 km (12 mi) west of the Tigris river which defines the triple border between Syria, Turkey and Iraq. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Malikiyah had a population about 26,311 residents in the 2004 census. Other sources claim that the city has a population of 39,000 as of 2024. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 108 localities with a combined population of 125,000. The population enjoys demographic and ethnic diversity that is characteristic of most of Al-Hasakah Governorate. The town is inhabited by Kurds, Assyrians, Arabs and Armenians. Read more on Wikipedia