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.
- »Damascus and Aleppo are among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
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.
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.
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).
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.