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Syria Country Data

Area: total: 185,180 sq km
land: 184,050 sq km
water: 1,130 sq km
note: includes 1,295 sq km of Israeli-occupied territory

Climate: mostly desert hot, dry, sunny summers [June to August] and mild, rainy winters [December to February] along coast cold weather with snow or sleet periodically in Damascus

Terrain: primarily semiarid and desert plateau narrow coastal plain mountains in west

Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower

Population: 19,747,586
note: in addition, about 40,000 people live in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights - 20,000 Arabs [18,000 Druze and 2,000 Alawites] and about 20,000 Israeli settlers [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 36.2% [male 3,679,473/female 3,467,096]
15-64 years: 60.5% [male 6,119,459/female 5,822,376]
65 years and over: 3.3% [male 310,838/female 348,344] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Syrian[s]
adjective: Syrian

Ethnic groups: Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%

Languages: Arabic [official] Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian widely understood French, English somewhat understood

Capital: name: Damascus
geographic coordinates: 33 30 N, 36 18 E
time difference: UTC+2 [7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time]
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins 1 April ends 30 September

National holiday: Independence Day, 17 April [1946]

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 23.6%
industry: 27.5%
services: 48.9% [2007 est.]

Labor force: 5.462 million [2007 est.]

Budget: revenues: $8.848 billion
expenditures: $11.21 billion [2007 est.]

Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, cotton, lentils, chickpeas, olives, sugar beets beef, mutton, eggs, poultry, milk

Industries: petroleum, textiles, food processing, beverages, tobacco, phosphate rock mining, cement, oil seeds crushing, car assembly

Exports: $10.58 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Exports - commodities: crude oil, minerals, petroleum products, fruits and vegetables, cotton fiber, textiles, clothing, meat and live animals, wheat

Exports - partners: Iraq 27.4%, Germany 12.1%, Lebanon 9.5%, Italy 6.6%, Egypt 5.3%, Saudi Arabia 4.8% [2006]

Imports: $12.38 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, electric power machinery, food and livestock, metal and metal products, chemicals and chemical products, plastics, yarn, paper

Imports - partners: Saudi Arabia 12.3%, China 7.9%, Egypt 6.2%, UAE 6%, Italy 4.8%, Ukraine 4.8%, Germany 4.8%, Iran 4.5% [2006]

Currency (code): Syrian pound [SYP]

Exchange rates: Syrian pounds per US dollar - 50.0085 [2007], 51.689 [2006], 50 [2005], 48.5 [2004], 52.8 [2003]
note: data for 2004-06 are the public sector rate data for 2002-03 are the parallel market rate in 'Amman and Beirut the official rate for repaying loans was 11.25 Syrian pounds per US dollars during 2004-06,

Airports: 90 [2007]

Railways: total: 2,711 km
standard gauge: 2,460 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 251 km 1.050-m gauge [2006]

Merchant marine: total: 96 ships [1000 GRT or over] 353,351 GRT/512,597 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 7, cargo 82, container 1, livestock carrier 4, petroleum tanker 1, roll on/roll off 1
foreign-owned: 10 [Jordan 2, Lebanon 4, Romania 4]
registered in other countries: 164 [Bolivia 1, Cambodia 32, Comoros 8, Cyprus 2, Dominica 2, Georgia 54, Hong Kong 1, North Korea 7, Lebanon 1, Libya 1, Malta 4, Mongolia 1, Panama 24, Sierra Leone 8, Slovakia 2, St Kitts and Nevis 5, St Vincent and The Grenadines 11, unknown 2] [2007]

Ports and terminals: Latakia, Tartus

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