{"id":10447,"count":5,"description":"Damascus (Arabic: \u062f\u0650\u0645\u064e\u0634\u0642\u200e Dima\u0161q, Ottoman Turkish: \u0634\u0627\u0645 Sh\u0101m), commonly known in Syria as Al Sham (Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645\u200e Al Sh\u0101m), and as the City of Jasmine (Arabic: \u0645\u062f\u064a\u0646\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0627\u0633\u0645\u064a\u0646\u200e Mad\u012bnatu 'i Y\u0101sm\u012bn), is the capital and the second largest city of Syria after Aleppo, both are part of the country's 14 governorates. In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major cultural and religious center of the Levant. The city has an estimated population of 2,517,750 (July 2010 est.) .\nLocated in southwestern Syria, Damascus is the center of a large metropolitan area of 2.4 million people (2004). Geographically embedded on the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range 80 kilometres (50\u00a0mi) inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau 680 metres (2,230\u00a0ft) above sea-level, Damascus experiences a semi-arid climate due to the rain shadow effect. The Barada River flows through Damascus.\nFirst settled in the 2nd millennium...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/damascus\/","name":"Damascus","slug":"damascus","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/10447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=10447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}