Jafna

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Jafna, alternatively romanised Jafneh or Jafné (Arabic: جفنة jafnah), is a baladiya and major satellite of Nasser City (national capital of the Arab Union), which it borders to its southwest along the New Union Canal. Jafna is also the administrative seat of Karmat Sharkas District, Syria. With a 2023 population estimated at 788,300, Jafna is the second most populous constituent community of the Capital Metropole (after Nasser City) and fourth most populous Syrian city (after Damascus, Aleppo and Latakia).