Syria
Syria (officially Syrian Arab Republic) is a country in Western Asia, with its capital at Damascus, and is home to roughly 24.7M people.
Arabic is the official language; the currency in circulation is Syrian pound (£); people from here are called Syrian.
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- »Damascus and Aleppo are among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
> BORDERS_
Syria touches five neighbours: Iraq to the southeast, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Lebanon to the southwest and Turkey to the northwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Damascus is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and the street called Straight, mentioned in the Book of Acts, still runs through it.
> SCALE_
185,835 km² (71,751 sq mi), 87th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Cambodia.
Population 24,672,760, 57th of 198 on file. That averages 133 per km² (344 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
Pan-Arab red, white and black with two green stars, the stars originally standing for Syria and Egypt during their union as the United Arab Republic.