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Shinshar

Shinshar
شنشار
Shanshar
Village
Shinshar is located in Syria
Shinshar
Shinshar
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°36′0″N 36°44′0″E / 34.60000°N 36.73333°E / 34.60000; 36.73333
Country Syria
GovernorateHoms
DistrictAl-Qusayr
SubdistrictAl-Qusayr
Population
 (2017)
 • Total2 588
Time zoneUTC+3 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (EEST)

Shinshar (Arabic: شنشار, romanized: Shinshār, also spelled Shanshar) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located between Homs to the north, al-Qusayr to the southwest and Shamsin to the south. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Shinshar had a population of 3,118 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.[2]

References

  1. ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Homs Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ^ Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 173

Bibliography

  • Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.


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