Syria
Syria is a country in the Middle East. Rich in history, the capital, Damascus, is the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, and the country has been the site of numerous empires.Tap on the map to travel |
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Damascus
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Damascus is the capital of Syria and its second largest city after Aleppo.
Syrian Desert
The Syrian Desert, or Southeastern Desert, is a vast and sparsely populated region in southeastern Syria.Destinations
Rojava
Rojava is a semi-autonomous region of Syria, inhabited mostly by Kurds, and also known as Syrian Kurdistan, and officially since Sep 2018, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.Northwestern Syria
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Northwestern Syria is the region around Aleppo, Syria.
Golan Heights
The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, and straddles the borders of Syria and Israel.Syria
- Type: Country with 18,900,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in western Asia
- Languages: Arabic, Kurdish, Armenian, Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE), French and English
- Neighbors: Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey
- Categories: sovereign state, colony, Mediterranean country and locality
- Location: Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
35.228° or 35° 13' 41" northLongitude of center
38.408° or 38° 24' 29" eastPopulation
18,900,000Area
185,180 km² (71,498 miles²)Elevation
918 metres (3,012 feet)Capital
DamascusCurrency
Pound (SYP)Phone code
.syInternet domain
963OpenStreetMap ID
node 424311806OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
163843Wikidata ID
Q858Syria Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Surya
- Abkhazian: Шьамтәыла
- Achinese: Suriah
- Achinese: Suriyah
- Adyghe: Сирие
- Afar: Siriya
- Afrikaans: Sirië
- Akan: Siria
- Akan: Syria
- Albanian: Siri
- Albanian: Siria
- Amharic: Syria
- Amharic: ሲሪያ
- Amharic: ሶሪያ
- Amharic: ሶርያ
- Amis: Syria
- Angika: सीरिया
- Arabic: Ash Shām
- Arabic: Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah
- Arabic: Sirya
- Arabic: Sūriyā
- Arabic: al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah
- Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السورية
- Arabic: الجمهوريّة العربيّة السّوريّة
- Arabic: الشام
- Arabic: سوريا
- Arabic: سورية
- Aragonese: Siria
- Armenian: Սիրիա
- Armenian: Սիրիայի Արաբական Հանրապետություն
- Armenian: Սուրիա
- Arpitan: Siria
- Arpitan: Sirie
- Assamese: চিৰিয়া
- Assamese: ছিৰিয়া
- Asturian: Siria
- Atayal: Syria
- Avaric: Сирия
- Avaric: Шам
- Awadhi: सीरिया
- Azerbaijani: Suriya
- Balinese: Suriah
- Bambara: Siri
- Bambara: Suriya
- Bashkir: Сирия
- Bashkir: Сүриә
- Basque: Siria
- Bavarian: Syrien
- Belarusian: Сырыя
- Belarusian: Сірыя
- Bengali: সিরিয়া
- Bhojpuri: सीरिया
- Bishnupriya: সিরিয়া
- Bislama: Siria
- Bosnian: Sirija
- Brahui: Síríá
- Breton: Siria
- Buginese: Suriah
- Buginese: ᨔᨘᨑᨗᨕᨖ
- Bulgarian: Сирийска Арабска Република
- Bulgarian: Сирия
- Burmese: ဆီးရီးယား
- Burmese: ဆီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: República Àrab Siriana
- Catalan: Síria
- Cebuano: Siria
- Central Bikol: Sirya
- Central Kurdish: سوریا
- Central Kurdish: سووریا
- Chavacano: Siria
- Chechen: Шема
- Chinese: Su-lī-a
- Chinese: Xùlìyà
- Chinese: 叙利亚 / 敘利亞
- Chinese: 叙利亚
- Chinese: 敘利亞
- Chinese: 西里亚
- Chinese: 西里亞
- Chinese: 阿拉伯敘利亞共和國
- Church Slavic: Сѷрїꙗ
- Chuvash: Сири
- Cornish: Syri
- Corsican: Siria
- Crimean Tatar: Suriye
- Croatian: Sirija
- Czech: Metropole blízkého východu
- Czech: Syrská arabská republika
- Czech: Sýrie
- Czech: metropole starověku
- Dagbani: Syria
- Danish: Syrien
- Dhivehi: ސޫރިޔާ
- Dimli (individual language): Suriya
- Dotyali: सीरिया
- Dutch: SY
- Dutch: SYR
- Dutch: Syrie
- Dutch: Syrië
- Dzongkha: སི་རི་ཡ
- Eastern Mari: Сирий
- Egyptian Arabic: سوريا
- English: SYR
- English: Syrian Arab Republic
- English: sy
- Esperanto: Araba Respubliko Sirio
- Esperanto: SY
- Esperanto: Sirio
- Estonian: Süüria
- Estonian: Süüria Araabia Vabariik
- Ewe: Siria nutome
- Extremaduran: Siria
- Extremaduran: Síria
- Faroese: Sýria
- Fiji Hindi: Syria
- Finnish: Syyria
- Finnish: Syyrian arabitasavalta
- French (Historic): Surie
- French: République arabe syrienne
- French: SY
- French: Syrie
- Fulah: Sirii
- Fulah: Suriya
- Gagauz: Siriya
- Galician: Siria - سورية
- Galician: Siria
- Galician: سۊريه
- Ganda: Siriya
- Georgian: სირია
- German: Syrien
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Syria
- Gilaki: سوری
- Gilaki: سۊريه
- Goan Konkani: Syria
- Goan Konkani: सीरिया
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌾𐌰/Saurja
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌾𐌰
- Greek: Συρία, Αραβική Δημοκρατία της
- Greek: Συρία
- Guarani: Siria
- Guarani: Síria
- Guianese Creole French: Siri
- Gujarati: સિરિયા
- Gujarati: સીરિયા
- Haitian: Siri
- Hakka Chinese: Si-li-â
- Hausa: Sham, Siriya
- Hausa: Si-li-â
- Hausa: Siriya
- Hausa: Suria
- Hawaiian: Suria
- Hebrew: סוריה
- Hindi: सीरिया
- Hungarian: Szíria
- Hungarian: Szíriai Arab Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Sýrland
- Ido: Siria
- Igbo: Syria
- Iloko: Siria
- Inari Sami: Syyria
- Inari Sami: Syyria arabitäsiväldi
- Indonesian: Siria
- Indonesian: Suriah
- Indonesian: Syria
- Interlingua: Syria
- Interlingue: Siria
- Irish: An tSiria
- Irish: an tSiria
- Italian: Repubblica Araba di Siria
- Italian: Siria
- Jamaican Creole English: Siria
- Japanese: シリア
- Japanese: シリア・アラブ共和国
- Javanese: Suriah
- Kabardian: Шам
- Kabiyè: Siirii
- Kabyle: Surya
- Kalaallisut: Syria
- Kalmyk: Сирмудин Араб Орн
- Kannada: ಸಿರಿಯಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Suriya
- Kashmiri: شام
- Kashubian: Syrëjô
- Kazakh: Сирия
- Kazakh: Сирия Араб Республикасы
- Kazakh: Сурия
- Khmer: ស៊ីរី
- Kikuyu: Siria
- Kikuyu: Syria
- Kinyarwanda: Siriya
- Kirghiz: Сирия
- Komi: Сирия
- Kongo: Syria
- Korean: 수리아
- Korean: 수리아아랍공화국
- Korean: 시리아
- Kurdish: Sûrî
- Ladin: Siria
- Ladino: Surya
- Lao: Siria
- Lao: ຊີເຣຍ
- Latin: Syria
- Latvian: Sīrija
- Lezghian: Сирия
- Ligurian: Sciria
- Limburgan: Syrië
- Lingala: Sirí
- Lingua Franca Nova: Suria
- Literary Chinese: 敘利亞
- Lithuanian: Sirija
- Lithuanian: Sirijos Arabų Respublika
- Liv: Zīria
- Livvi: Sirii
- Lojban: sixygu'e
- Lombard: Siria
- Low German: Syrien
- Low German: Syrië
- Lower Sorbian: Syriska
- Luba-Katanga: Siri
- Luxembourgish: Syrien
- Macedonian: Сирија
- Madurese: Suriah
- Maithili: सीरिया
- Malagasy: Siria
- Malagasy: Syria
- Malay: Republik Arab Syria
- Malay: SY
- Malay: SYR
- Malay: Syria
- Malay: sy
- Malay: سوريا
- Malayalam: സിറിയ
- Maltese: Repubblika Għarbija Sirjana
- Maltese: Sirja
- Maltese: is-Sirja
- Manipuri: ꯁꯤꯔꯤꯌꯥ
- Manx: Yn Teer
- Maori: Hiria
- Marathi: सीरिया
- Mazanderani: سوریه
- Min Dong Chinese: Sê̤ṳ-lé-ā
- Min Dong Chinese: Sṳ̆-lê-ā
- Min Nan Chinese: Su-lī-a
- Min Nan Chinese: Syria
- Minangkabau: Suriah
- Mingrelian: სირია
- Mirandese: Síria
- Moksha: Сирия
- Moksha: Сириянь Арабонь республиксь
- Mongolian: Сири
- Mongolian: ꯁꯤꯔꯤꯌꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: سوريا
- Nauru: Syria
- Navajo: Haʼaʼaahjí Ásáí Dineʼé Bikéyah
- Nepali: सिरिया
- Newari: सिरिया
- Newari: सीरिया
- North Ndebele: Syria
- Northern Frisian: Syrien
- Northern Luri: سوریه
- Northern Sami: Syria
- Northern Sami: Syria arabadásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Syria arábadásseváldi
- Norwegian: Syria
- Norwegian Bokmål: Den arabiske republikk Syria
- Norwegian Bokmål: Syria
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Syria
- Novial: Siria
- Occitan (post 1500): Siria
- Occitan (post 1500): Súria
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܣܘܪܝܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Syria
- Oriya: ସିରିଆ
- Oromo: Siiriyaa
- Ossetian: Сири
- Pali: सिरिया
- Pampanga: Siria
- Pampanga: Syria
- Panjabi: ਸੀਰੀਆ
- Papiamento: Siria
- Papiamento: Syria
- Persian: آسور، آشور
- Persian: سوریه
- Persian: عاسور، عاشور، عاشورا
- Picard: Sirie
- Piemontese: Siria
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Siriya
- Polish: Syria
- Pontic: Συρία
- Portuguese: República Árabe Síria
- Portuguese: Síria
- Pushto: سوريه
- Pushto: سوریه
- Quechua: Siria
- Quechua: Sirya
- Romanian: Republica Arabă Siriană
- Romanian: Siria
- Romansh: Siria
- Rundi: Siriya
- Russia Buriat: Сири
- Russian: Сирийская Арабская Республика
- Russian: Сирия
- Rusyn: Сирия
- Sakizaya: Syria
- Samoan: Suria
- Samogitian: Sėrėjė
- Sango: Sirïi
- Sanskrit: सिरिया
- Santali: ᱥᱤᱨᱤᱭᱟ
- Sardinian: Siria
- Sardinian: Sìria
- Scots: Sirie
- Scots: Syrie
- Scottish Gaelic: Siria
- Scottish Gaelic: Siridhea
- Serbian: Sirija
- Serbian: Сирија
- Serbo-Croatian: Sirija
- Shan: မိူင်းသီးရီးယႃး
- Shona: Syria
- Sicilian: Siria
- Silesian: Syryjo
- Sindhi: شام
- Sinhala: සිරියාව
- Skolt Sami: Syyria
- Skolt Sami: Syyria araabtääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Sýria
- Slovak: Sýrska arabská republika
- Slovenian: Sirija
- Somali: Suuriya
- South Azerbaijani: سوریه
- Spanish: República Árabe de Siria
- Spanish: Siria
- Sranan Tongo: Syirikondre
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵙⵓⵔⵢⴰ
- Sundanese: Suriah
- Swahili: Siria
- Swahili: Syria
- Swati: ISiriya
- Swedish: Syrien
- Swedish: Syriska arabiska republiken
- Swiss German: Syrie
- Tagalog: Siria
- Tagalog: Syria
- Tajik: Сурия
- Talysh: Surijə
- Talysh: Suriya
- Tamil: சிரியா
- Taroko: Syria
- Tatar: Сүрия
- Telugu: సిరియా
- Tetum: Síria
- Thai: ซีเรีย
- Thai: ประเทศซีเรีย
- Tibetan: སི་རི་ཡ།
- Tigrinya: ሱርያ
- Tigrinya: ሲሪያ
- Tok Pisin: Syria
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Silia
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Sīlia
- Tosk Albanian: Syrien
- Tsonga: Syria
- Tumbuka: Syria
- Tunisian Arabic: سوريا
- Turkish: SAC
- Turkish: Suriye
- Turkish: Suriye Arap Cumhuriyeti
- Turkish: sy
- Turkmen: Siriýa
- Twi: Syria
- Tyap: Suriya
- Udmurt: Сирия
- Uighur: سۇرىيە
- Ukrainian: Сирійська Арабська Республіка
- Ukrainian: Сирія
- Upper Sorbian: Syriska
- Urdu: سوریا
- Urdu: سوریہ
- Urdu: شام
- Urdu: شام ملک
- Urdu: عرب جمہوریہ سوریہ
- Uzbek: Suriya
- Venetian: Sìria
- Veps: Sirii
- Vietnamese: SYR
- Vietnamese: Syria
- Vietnamese: Xi-ri (Syria)
- Vietnamese: Xi-ri
- Vietnamese: sy
- Vlaams: Syrië
- Vlax Romani: Syria
- Volapük: Süriyän
- Võro: Süüria
- Walloon: Sireye
- Waray (Philippines): Sirya
- Welsh: Gweriniaeth Arabaidd Syria
- Welsh: Syria
- Western Armenian: Սուրիա
- Western Balochi: سوریه
- Western Frisian: Syrië
- Western Frisian: Syrje
- Western Panjabi: شام
- Wolof: Siri
- Wu Chinese: 叙利亚
- Yakut: Сирия
- Yiddish: סיריע
- Yoruba: Siria
- Yoruba: Síríà
- Yue Chinese: 敘利亞
- Zeeuws: Syrië
- Zhuang: Siliya
- Zhuang: Syria
- Zulu: i-Syria
- Historic: Al-Sham
- Historic: El Sham
- Al-Suriyah
- Al Iqlīm as Sūrī
- Al Iqlīm ash Shamālī
- Al Jumhūrīyah al ‘Arabīyah as Sūrīyah
- Arām
- El Suriya
- Es Suriya
- Esh Sham
- La Syrie
- Northern Region
- Syrian Region
- Süüriä
- Sūrīyah
- ma Sulija
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