| Official Name: | Jaramana |
| Native Name: | جرمانا |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Pushpin Map: | Syria |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Syria |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | Rif Dimashq |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Markaz Rif Dimashq |
| Subdivision Type3: | Subdistrict |
| Subdivision Name3: | Jaramana |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 5.95 |
| Area Land Km2: | 5.95 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0 |
| Area Water Percent: | 0 |
| Area Urban Km2: | 5.95 |
| Population As Of: | 2004 census |
| Population Total: | 114,363 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 33.4833°N 57°W |
| Elevation M: | 670 |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
| Blank Info: | BSk |
Jaramana (Arabic: جرمانا) is a city in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in the Ghouta plain. Its location, 3 kilometers southeast of the Syrian capital, makes it a bustling town in the greater Damascus metropolitan area, with a mostly Christian and Druze population.
Jaramana was visited by Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13th-century and noted it was "a district of the Ghautah of Damascus."[2]
In late 2012, the neoconservative Institute for the Study of War said there had been reports of Popular Committees (local self-defense militias formed to defend communities from armed extremists) and pro-government Shabiha working closely with government forces there.[3] On October 29 and November 28, 2012, the town was hit by car bombings killing over 100 civilian residents, including, several Iraqi and Palestinian refugees.
Since 2003 and the beginning of the Iraq War, large numbers of Iraqi have immigrated to Jaramana, swelling the population from around 100,000 to over 250,000.[4] According to the 2004 official census, the population of the city was 114,363.[5]
There is also a Palestinian refugee camp near the town bearing its same name. Jaramana is a favorite destination for Iraqi Assyrian Christian refugees fleeing their unstable country. In October 2006, the Assyrian community in Jaramana finally received a priest from Mosul, Iraq. The priest, Arkan Hana Hakim, claims there are now 2,000 Assyrian Iraqi refugees in the town Jaramana alone.[6]