Al-Asharah (, also spelled
al-Ashareh or
Esharah) is a town 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-Quriyah to the northeast, Makhan and
Mayadin to the north, Suwaydan Jazirah to the southeast and Dablan to the south. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Asharah had a population of 17,537 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative seat of a
nahiyah ("subdistrict") which consists of seven localities with a total population of 96,001 in 2004. Al-Asharah is the third largest locality in the
nahiyah. Its inhabitants are predominantly
Sunni Muslims.