Ar Raqqah, Suriye Güncel Saati — GMT+3.

Raqqa, is a city in Syria on the North bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 kilometres east of Aleppo. It is located 40 kilometres east of the Euphrates Dam, Syria's largest dam. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and bishopric Callinicum was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate between 796 and 809, under the reign of Harun al-Rashid. It was also the capital of the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017. With a population of 531,952 based on the 2021 official census, Raqqa is the sixth largest city in Syria.

Distance-wise, Ar Raqqah is closest to Dubai (~1,958 km), London (~3,531 km), Singapore (~7,673 km); Sydney is the far end at roughly 13,959 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.

Ar Raqqah sits inside Suriye — the Western Asia subregion, capital Damascus, languages Arabic, currency SYP (£).

Around Ar Raqqah, the nearest mapped reference cities are Al-Tabqa (43 km), Akçakale (84 km), Manbij (114 km), Dayr Ḩāfir (119 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for GMT+3 planning.

Closest curated airport references from Ar Raqqah: ALP Aleppo (162 km), DAM Damascus (363 km).

In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.