Syria

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Map of Syria (de facto borders)Syria highlighted among its neighbouring countries, with borders drawn as Natural Earth shows them: according to who controls the territory. Hover a neighbour to see its name.Scale at the country's latitude100 km

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Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. It is a republic that consists of 14 governorates as subdivisions. Damascus is Syria's capital and largest city.

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The description on this page is shortened from “Syria” on Wikipedia, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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