Tell Rifaat (, also spelled
Tel Rifaat,
Tel Rif'at or
Tal Rifaat), and also known as
Arpad is a small city in northern
Syria, administratively part of the
Aleppo Governorate, located roughly 40 kilometers north of
Aleppo. Nearby localities include
A'zaz to the north,
Mare' to the east,
Kafr Naya to the south,
Deir Jamal and
Aqiba to the southwest and Ibbin to the west. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tell Rifaat had a population of 20,514 in the 2004 census.