Douma District () is a district of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria.
The second largest district of Syria following Tadmur, it stretches from the northeastern outskirts of Metropolitan Damascus to the Jordanian border, covering large swaths of the sparsely inhabited Syrian Desert. The administrative centre is the city of Douma, located just some to the northeast of Damascus.
At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 433,719.
Subdistricts The district of Douma is divided into seven sub-districts or nawāḥī (population ):
+ Subdistricts of Douma District Code Name Area Population SY030200 Douma Subdistrict km² SY030201 Harasta Subdistrict km² SY030202 Al-Sabe' Biyar Subdistrict km² SY030203 Al-Dumayr Subdistrict km² SY030204 Al-Nashabiyah Subdistrict km² SY030205 Al-Ghizlaniyah Subdistrict km² SY030206 Harran al-Awamid Subdistrict km²
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