Kafr Halab
كفر حلب
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Village
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  Kafr Halab Location of Kafr Halab in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 36°03′52″N 36°52′15″E / 36.0644°N 36.8708°E / 36.0644; 36.8708 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Aleppo |
| District | Atarib |
| Subdistrict | Urum al-Kubrah |
| Population
(2004)[1]
| 4,136 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Kafr Halab (Arabic: كفر حلب, also spelled Kafar Halab) or Kafr Aleppo 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.[1]
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]."[2]
