Al-Hajar al-Aswad is a Syrian city just 4 km south of the centre of Damascus in the Darayya District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. A…Al-Hajar al-Aswad is a Syrian city just 4 km south of the centre of Damascus in the Darayya District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Al-Hajar al-Aswad had a population of 84,948 in the 2004 census, making it the 13th largest city per geographical entity in Syria.