Damascus is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, settled for over 11,000 years.
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Syria
Syrian Arab Republic ยท ุณูุฑูุง
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
185.18Kkmยฒ of land
$5.79KGDP / person
DamascusCapital
- ISO codes
- SY ยท SYR
- Density
- 92 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Syrian pound (SYP)
- Dial code
- +963
- Internet domain
- .sy
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 35.0070ยฐ N, 38.2780ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Syrian
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $98.83B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Syria stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
68th
of 242 ยท 0.22% of world population
Land area
90th
of 242 ยท 0.12% of world land
GDP per person
138th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
110th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Syria
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 17,070,135 people, the 68th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.22 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 185,180 kmยฒ, making it the 90th largest country here - about 6.1 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 92 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Damascus, at 33.50ยฐ N, 36.30ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 2,466,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Damascus.
The currency is the Syrian pound (SYP, symbol ยฃ).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Damascus
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Aleppo
Aleppo (Halab)
36.2319ยฐ N, 37.1681ยฐ E
2.74M
2
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Damascus
Damascus
33.5020ยฐ N, 36.2981ยฐ E
2.47M
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Syria.