Al Ḩasakah
Hasakah is a city in northeastern Syria and the capital of the Hasakah Governorate.
Hasakah is a city in northeastern Syria and the capital of the Hasakah Governorate. With a 2023 estimated population of 422,445, Hasakah is populated by Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and a smaller number of Armenians and Chechens. Hasakah is 80 kilometres south of the city of Qamishli. The Khabur River, a tributary of the Euphrates River, flows west–east through the city. The Jaghjagh River flows into the Khabur from the north at Hasakah. After Ayn Issa came under the control of the Syrian transitional government, Hasakah became the new capital of the DAANES.
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Worth seeing in and around Al Ḩasakah
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Tall Sulaymānī
Tall Sulaymānī is a hill in Syria. It is located in al-Hasakah province, in the northeastern part of the country, 500 kilometers northeast of the capital Damascus.
6.7 km · mountain in Syria · Wikipedia - 02Mount Kaukab
Sharat Kovakab is a volcanic field in Syria.
9.8 km · A mountain in the Al-Hasakah Governorate of northeastern Syria · Wikipedia - 03Hasakah Municipal Stadium
Al-Hasakah Municipal Stadium ) is a multi-purpose stadium in Al-Hasakah. It is used mostly for football matches.
900 m · sports stadium in Hasakah, Syria · Wikipedia - 04Tell Rad Shaqra
Tell Rad Shaqrah was a fortified rural settlement in Syria, in ancient Upper Mesopotamia. It is located on the northern bank of the Khabur River, about 15 kilometers from Hassake.
9.4 km · archaeological site in Syria · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Great Mosque of Musheiref
- 02Saint George's Cathedral
Syriac Orthodox Church.
- 03Cathedral of Our Lady
- 04Chaldean Catholic Church
From Wikivoyage: Al Ḩasakah, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
Struggle Restaurant,. Jihad Restaurant.
From Wikivoyage: Al Ḩasakah, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Al Ḩasakah
- Airports
- Şanlıurfa GAP (GNY), 194 km · Erbil (EBL), 289 km · Gaziantep Oğuzeli (GZT), 295 km
- Aleppo → Al Ḩasakah323 km · quickest by road, 5h 42m · $30–41
- Damascus → Al Ḩasakah525 km · quickest by road, 9h 58m · $49–65
- Şanlıurfa → Al Ḩasakah189 km · quickest by road, 4h · ₺425–570
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No local-transport research exists yet for Al Ḩasakah
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Al Ḩasakah. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAs of 2023, travelling by car or minibus is the only practical way of reaching Al-Hasakah.
From Wikivoyage: Al-Hasakah, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-02.
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Next door to Al Ḩasakah
- Hasakah Districtdistrict (mantiqa) administratively belonging to Hasakah Governorate, Syria1.5 km
- Al-Tweinahtown in al-Hasakah, Syria9.8 km