Hajin

Hajin هَجِين
Hajin
Coordinates: 34°41′22″N 40°49′51″E / 34.68944°N 40.83083°E / 34.68944; 40.83083
Country	Syria
Governorate	Deir ez-Zor
District	Abu Kamal
Subdistrict	Hajin
Control	Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Population  (2004 census)[1]
• Total	37,935
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Hajin (Arabic: هَجِين, romanized: Hajīn, also spelled Hajeen) is a small city in eastern Syria, administratively part of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, located along the Euphrates River, south of Deir ez-Zor. Nearby localities include al-Abbas to the west, al-Ramadi to the south and Gharanij to the north. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Hajin had a population of 37,935 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") of the Abu Kamal District. The Hajin subdistrict consists of four towns which had a collective population of 97,970 in 2004.^[1] The al-Shaitat tribe is the largest tribe in the area.^[2] The town was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces on 14 December 2018 in the Battle of Hajin, after a week and a half of heavy clashes and intense airstrikes by the United States-led Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve international coalition,^[3] and has since been part of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.