Kawkab (Arabic: كوكب; also transliterated as Kokab) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Suran Subdistrict of Hama District, located about 20 kilometers (12 mi) east of Hama.

[1] According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kawkab had a population of 1,639 in the 2004 census.

In 1905, during Ottoman rule (1517–1918), Kawkab was sold by a sheikh of the Mawali, a partly Bedouin tribe of central-northern Syria, to the prominent landowning al-Azm family of Hama.

Its inhabitants were Sunni Muslim Arab tenant farmers.

Pistachios and olives were the main agricultural crops, and to a lesser extent wheat, cumin and lentils.