Coordinates: 35°N 38°E / 35°N 38°E / 35; 38

Syrian Arab Republic ٱلْجُمْهُورِيَّةُ ٱلْعَرَبِيَّةُ ٱلسُّورِيَّةُ (Arabic) <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah
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Capital and largest city	Damascus 33°30′N 36°18′E / 33.500°N 36.300°E / 33.500; 36.300
Official languages	Arabic
Ethnic groups (2014)	90% Arab 10% Other
Religion	87% Islam 10% Christianity 3% Druze
Demonym(s)	Syrian
Government	Unitary dominant-party semi-presidential Ba’athist republic under an authoritarian hereditary dictatorship
• President	Bashar al-Assad
• Prime Minister	Hussein Arnous
• Vice Presidents	Farouk al-Sharaa Najah al-Attar
• Speaker of the People's Council	Hammouda Sabbagh
Legislature	People's Council
Establishment
• Arab Kingdom of Syria	8 March 1920
• State of Syria under French mandate	1 December 1924
• Syrian Republic	14 May 1930
• De jure Independence	24 October 1945
• De facto Independence	17 April 1946
• Left the United Arab Republic	28 September 1961
• Ba'ath party takes power	8 March 1963
• Current constitution	27 February 2012
Area
• Total	Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (87th)
• Water (%)	1.1
Population
• 2020 estimate	17,500,657 (66th)
• 2010 census	21,018,834
• Density	Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (70th)
GDP (PPP)	2015 estimate
• Total	$50.28 billion
• Per capita	$2,900
GDP (nominal)	2014 estimate
• Total	$24.6 billion (167)
• Per capita	$831
Gini (2014)	55.8 high
HDI (2019)	0.567 medium · 151st
Currency	Syrian pound (SYP)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Driving side	right
Calling code	+963
ISO 3166 code	SY
Internet TLD	.sy سوريا.

Syria is a country in the Middle East, the west part of Asia. It borders (from south to north) on Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey. Its western part faces the Mediterranean Sea. Its eastern and northern parts are mountainous.