Syria

Syria is a country in the . Rich in history, the capital, , is the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, and the country has been the site of numerous empires.
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is the capital and largest city of Syria.
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is one of the largest cities in Syria, with a population of over 2 million.
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The is a vast and sparsely populated region in southeastern Syria.
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The is a region that spans parts of southern Syria and northern .
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is the region around .
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The Coast and Mountains of Syria is a region in the west of the country.
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The is a region in west-central Syria.
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Syria

  • Country with about 23,900,000 residents
  • …has as its capital
  • …uses the Pound (SYP)
  • …has the phone code 963
  • …uses the internet domain .sy
  • …covers 185,180 km² (71,498 miles²)
  • Description: country in West Asia
  • Also known as
    “Al Iqlīm as Sūrī”
    “Al Iqlīm ash Shamālī”
    “Al Jumhūrīyah al ‘Arabīyah as Sūrīyah”
    “Al-Suriyah”
    “Arām”
    “Ash Shām”
    “El Suriya”
    “Es Suriya”
    “Esh Sham”
    “La Syrie”
    “Northern Region”
    “Sūriyā”
    “Sūrīyah”
    “Syrian Arab Republic”
    “Syrian Region”
  • Historically known as
    “Al-Sham”
    “El Sham”
  • Languages
    Arabic
    Kurdish
    Armenian
    Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
    French
    English
  • Neighbors
  • Categories
    sovereign state
    Mediterranean country
    locality
  • Location
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Latitude of center
35.228° or 35° 13′ 41″ north
Longitude of center
38.408° or 38° 24′ 29″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311806
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
163843
Wiki­data ID
Q858

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Syria” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Шьамтәыла”
  • Achinese: “Suriah”
  • Achinese: “Suriyah”
  • Adyghe: “Сирие”
  • Afrikaans: “Sirië”
  • Akan: “Siria”
  • Albanian: “Siri”
  • Albanian: “Siria”
  • Amharic: “ሲሪያ”
  • Amharic: “ሶሪያ”
  • Amharic: “ሶርያ”
  • Amis: “Syria”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Συρία”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Συρίη”
  • Angika: “सीरिया”
  • Arabic: “الجمهوريّة العربيّة السّوريّة”
  • Arabic: “الشام”
  • Arabic: “سوريا”
  • Arabic: “سورية”
  • Aragonese: “Siria”
  • Armenian: “Սիրիա”
  • Armenian: “Սիրիայի Արաբական Հանրապետություն”
  • Arpitan: “Siria”
  • Arpitan: “Sirie”
  • Assamese: “চিৰিয়া”
  • Assamese: “ছিৰিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Siria”
  • Atayal: “Syria”
  • Avaric: “Сирия”
  • Avaric: “Шам”
  • Awadhi: “सीरिया”
  • Azerbaijani: “Suriya Ərəb Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Suriya”
  • Balinese: “Suriah”
  • Bambara: “Siri”
  • Bambara: “Suriya”
  • Bashkir: “Сирия”
  • Bashkir: “Сүриә”
  • Basque: “Siria”
  • Bavarian: “Syrien”
  • Belarusian: “Сірыя”
  • Belarusian: “Сырыя”
  • Bengali: “সিরিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Suriah”
  • Bhojpuri: “सीरिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “সিরিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Siria”
  • Bosnian: “Sirija”
  • Brahui: “Síríá”
  • Breton: “Siria”
  • Buginese: “Suriah”
  • Buginese: “ᨔᨘᨑᨗᨐ”
  • 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: “Сири”
  • Chechen: “Сирин Ӏаьрбийн Республика”
  • Chechen: “Шема”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏂᏏᎵᎠ ᎡᎳᏈ ᏍᎦᏚᎩ”
  • 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: “Republica Àraba di Siria”
  • Corsican: “Siria”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Súriye”
  • Croatian: “Sirija”
  • Czech: “Sýrie”
  • Czech: “Syrská arabská republika”
  • Dagbani: “Syria”
  • Danish: “Syrien”
  • Dhivehi: “ސޫރިޔާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Suriya”
  • Dotyali: “सीरिया”
  • Dutch: “Arabische Republiek Syrië”
  • Dutch: “Syrië”
  • Dzongkha: “སི་རི་ཡ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сирий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سوريا”
  • Esperanto: “Araba Respubliko Sirio”
  • Esperanto: “Sirio”
  • Estonian: “Süüria Araabia Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Süüria”
  • Ewe: “Siria nutome”
  • Ewe: “Siria”
  • Extremaduran: “Síria”
  • Faroese: “Sýria”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Syria”
  • Finnish: “Syyria”
  • Finnish: “Syyrian arabitasavalta”
  • French: “République arabe syrienne”
  • French: “Syrie”
  • French: “Surie” (historical)
  • Friulian: “Sirie”
  • Fulah: “Sirii”
  • Fulah: “Suriya”
  • Gagauz: “Siriya”
  • Galician: “Siria”
  • Ganda: “Siriya”
  • Georgian: “სირია”
  • German: “Syrien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Syria”
  • Gilaki: “سۊريه”
  • Goan Konkani: “Syria”
  • Goan Konkani: “सीरिया”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌾𐌰/Saurja”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Συρία, Αραβική Δημοκρατία της”
  • Greek: “Συρία”
  • Guarani: “Síria”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Siri”
  • Gujarati: “સીરિયા”
  • Haitian: “Siri”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Si-li-â”
  • Hausa: “Sham, Siriya”
  • Hausa: “Siriya”
  • Hawaiian: “Suria”
  • Hebrew: “סוריה”
  • Hindi: “सीरिया”
  • Hungarian: “Szíria”
  • Hungarian: “Szíriai Arab Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Siria”
  • Icelandic: “Sýrland”
  • Ido: “Siria”
  • Igbo: “Syria”
  • Iloko: “Siria”
  • Inari Sami: “Syyria arabitäsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Syyria”
  • Indonesian: “Siria”
  • Indonesian: “Suriah”
  • Indonesian: “Syria”
  • Interlingua: “Syria”
  • Interlingue: “Siria”
  • Irish: “An tSiria”
  • Italian: “Repubblica Araba di Siria”
  • Italian: “Siria”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Siria”
  • Japanese: “シリア・アラブ共和国”
  • Japanese: “シリア”
  • Javanese: “Suriah”
  • Kabardian: “Шам”
  • Kabiyè: “Siirii”
  • Kabyle: “Surya”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Syria”
  • Kalaallisut: “Syria”
  • Kalmyk: “Сирмудин Араб Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿರಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Siriya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сурия”
  • Kashmiri: “شام”
  • Kashubian: “Syrëjô”
  • Kashubian: “Syriô”
  • Kazakh: “Сирия Араб Республикасы”
  • Kazakh: “Сирия”
  • Kazakh: “Сурия”
  • Khmer: “ស៊ីរី”
  • Kikuyu: “Siria”
  • Kikuyu: “Syria”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Siriya”
  • Kirghiz: “Сирия”
  • Komering: “Suriah”
  • Komering: “Suriyah”
  • Komi: “Сирия”
  • Kongo: “Syria”
  • Korean: “수리아”
  • Korean: “수리아아랍공화국”
  • Korean: “시리아”
  • Kurdish: “Sûrî”
  • Ladin: “Siria”
  • Ladino: “Surya”
  • Lao: “ຊີເຣຍ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຊີເຣຍ”
  • 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: “Syrië”
  • Low German: “Syrien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Syriska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Siri”
  • Luxembourgish: “Syrien”
  • Macedonian: “Сирија”
  • Madurese: “Suriah”
  • Magahi: “सीरिया”
  • Magahi: “सीरीय अरब गणराज्य”
  • Maithili: “सीरिया”
  • Malagasy: “Siria”
  • Malagasy: “Syria”
  • Malay: “Republik Arab Syria”
  • Malay: “Syria”
  • Malay: “سوريا”
  • Malayalam: “സിറിയ”
  • Maltese: “is-Sirja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Għarbija Sirjana”
  • Maltese: “Sirja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯤꯔꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght Arabagh y Teer”
  • Manx: “Seer”
  • Manx: “Syria”
  • Manx: “y Teer”
  • Manx: “Yn Teer”
  • Maori: “Hiria”
  • Marathi: “सीरिया”
  • Mazanderani: “سوریه”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “سوريا”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “سورية”
  • 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”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سوريا”
  • Nauru: “Syria”
  • Navajo: “Haʼaʼaahjí Ásáí Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “सिरिया”
  • Newari: “सीरिया”
  • North Levantine Arabic: “سوريا”
  • North Ndebele: “Syria”
  • Northern Frisian: “Syrien”
  • Northern Luri: “سوریه”
  • Northern Sami: “Syria arábadásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Syria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den arabiske republikk Syria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Syria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den arabiske republikken Syria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Syria”
  • Norwegian: “Syria”
  • Novial: “Siria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Siria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Súria”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “suriya”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܽܘܪܺܝܰܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Syria”
  • Oriya: “ସିରିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Siiriyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Сам”
  • Ossetian: “Сири”
  • Pali: “सिरिया”
  • Pampanga: “Siria”
  • Pampanga: “Syria”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੀਰੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Siria”
  • Papiamento: “Syria”
  • Persian: “جمهوری عربی سوریه”
  • Persian: “سوریه”
  • 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: “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 araabtääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Syyria”
  • Slovak: “Sýria”
  • Slovak: “Sýrska arabská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Sirija”
  • Somali: “Suuriya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوریه”
  • Southern Altai: “Сирия”
  • Spanish: “República Árabe 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”
  • Swiss German: “Syrien”
  • Sylheti: “ꠍꠤꠞꠤꠀ”
  • Tagalog: “Siria”
  • Tagalog: “Syria”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥔᥤᥰ ᥘᥤᥰ ᥕᥣᥰ”
  • 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): “Sīlia”
  • Tsonga: “Syria”
  • Tulu: “ಸಿರಿಯಾ”
  • Tumbuka: “Syria”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “سوريا”
  • Turkish: “Suriye Arap Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Suriye”
  • 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: “عرب جمہوریہ سوریہ”
  • Uzbek: “Suriya”
  • Venetian: “Sìria”
  • Veps: “Sirii”
  • Vietnamese: “Syria”
  • Vietnamese: “Xi-ri (Syria)”
  • Vietnamese: “Xi-ri”
  • Vlaams: “Syrië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Syria”
  • Volapük: “Süriyän”
  • Võro: “Süüriä”
  • 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: “سوریہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “شام”
  • Wolof: “Siri”
  • Wu Chinese: “叙利亚”
  • Yakut: “Сирия”
  • Yiddish: “סיריע”
  • Yoruba: “Síríà”
  • Yue Chinese: “敘利亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Syrië”
  • Zhuang: “Siliya”
  • Zulu: “i-Syria”
  • “ma Sulija”
  • “SY”
  • “SYR”

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