Shayrat الشعيرات Sha'irat | |
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Village | |
  Shayrat Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:34°29′34″N36°56′47″E / 34.49278°N 36.94639°E /34.49278; 36.94639 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Homs |
| District | Homs |
| Subdistrict | Al-Riqama |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 1,443 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Area code | 031 |
Shayrat (Arabic:الشعيرات,romanized: ash-Shuʿayrāt, also spelledSha'irat) is a village in centralSyria, administratively part of theHoms Governorate, located southeast ofHoms on the western fringes of theSyrian Desert. Nearby localities includeDardaghan to the west,al-Manzul andal-Riqama to the northwest,Sadad to the south andal-Hamrat to the southwest. According to theCentral Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Shayrat had a population of 1,443 in the 2004 census.[1] Shayrat had been classified as an abandoned village orkhirba by English scholarEli Smith in 1838.[2]
Shayrat is nearShayrat Air Base.[3]
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