Qurqania

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Qurqania
قُورْقَانِيَا
Town
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Qurqania
Coordinates: 36°8′19″N36°36′45″E / 36.13861°N 36.61250°E / 36.13861; 36.61250
Country Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria
Governorate Idlib
District Harem
Subdistrict Qurqania
Population
 (2004) [1]
  Total
2,050
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Qurqania (Arabic : قُورْقَانِيَا, romanized: Qūrqāniyā, also spelled Qurqanya or Korkania) is a town in Syria, administratively part of the Harem District of the Idlib Governorate. Qurqania is the administrative center of the Qurqania Subdistrict, which contained 13 localities with a collective population of 12,522 in 2004. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Qurqania itself had a population of 2,050 in the 2004 census. [1]

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