Al-Jalaa

Al-Jalaa (Arabic: ٱلْجَلَاء, romanized: al-Jalāʾ) is a small city in eastern Syria, administratively part of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, located along the Euphrates River, south of Deir ez-Zor.

Nearby localities include al-Abbas to the west, al-Ramadi and Abu Kamal to the south and Kharayij and Hajin to the north.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Jalaa had a population of 9,171 in the 2004 census.

It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") of the Abu Kamal District.

The al-Jalaa subdistrict consists of six towns which had a collective population of 29,255 in 2004.

Al-Jalaa is the administrative center of Nahiya al-Jalaa of the Abu Kamal District .