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Kafr Halab

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Country
  
Syria

District
  
Atarib

Population (2004)
  
4,136

Governorate
  
Aleppo

Subdistrict
  
Urum al-Kubrah

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Kafr Halab

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.

Map of Kafr Aleppo, Syria

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]."

References

Kafr Halab Wikipedia