Mount Abdulaziz

Mount Abdulaziz or Abd al-Aziz (Arabic: جبل عبدالعزيز, romanized: Jabal ʿAbdulʿazīz) is a mountain ridge located in the southwestern part of the Hasakah Governorate, some 35 km west-south-west from the center of the city of Hasakah, in northeastern Syria.

[4] The surroundings of Mount Abdulaziz have been surveyed in view of establishing an oil industry several times.

As of 2007, there are around twenty villages and thirty smaller farming settlements scattered around the foot of the ridge with a total population of between 13,000 and 15,000 individuals.

It is one of the poorest areas in Syria, largely due to arid conditions and exacerbated by land use restrictions in place around the nature reserve established on the mountain.

Many inhabitants have migrated to Hasakah city and the nearby town of Tall Tamer to seek better conditions.