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Al-Bab
Al-Bab ( / ALA-LC: al-Bāb) is a Syrian city administratively belonging to the Aleppo Governorate. Al-Bab is located northeast of Aleppo and has an area of . Al-Bab has an altitude of . According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), it had a population of 63,069 in 2004. Its inhabitants are mostly Sunni Muslim Arabs and much more ethnically homogeneous than those of its neighbour city Manbij. Until 2013, there was also a shrinking number of Levantine Christians in Al-Bab.