Al-Aqrabiyah

Aqrabiyah (Arabic: العقربية, also spelled Akrabieh or Aqrabieh; also known as al-Buwaydah al-Gharbiyah) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs and immediately east and north of the border with Lebanon.

Nearby localities include Zita al-Gharbiyah to the southeast, the district center of al-Qusayr to the east, Arjoun and al-Houz to the northeast and al-Naim to the north.

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Aqrabiyah had a population of 4,326 in the 2004 census.

[1] The population is predominantly Shia Muslim and is immediately surrounded by several smaller Shia Muslim villages.

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