Nearby localities include Jobar and Qaboun to west and northwest, Harasta and Arbin to north and northeast, Hamouriyah and Saqba to east, Kafr Batna to southeast, Ein Tarma to the south and Al-Maamouniye to southwest.

The Aleppo-Damascus Highway is the districts boundary in the west, separating Zamalka from the Jobar municipality of Damascus.

[1] According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Zamalka had a population of 44,661 in the 2004 census.

[2] Zamalka was visited by Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13th-century, during Ayyubid rule.

Rebels surrendered to government forces on 23 March 2018, during the Rif Dimashq offensive (February–April 2018).