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Sirie, offeecially the Sirie Arab Republic الجمهورية العربية السورية, is a kintra in Wastren Asie, borderin Lebanon an the Mediterranean Sea tae the wast, Turkey tae the north, Iraq tae the east, Jordan tae the sooth, an Israel tae the soothwast.
Sirie Arab Republic | |
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Caipital and largest city | Damascus 33°30′N 36°18′E / 33.500°N 36.300°E |
Offeecial leids | Arabic |
Ethnic groups |
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Releegion | 87% Islam 10% Christianity 3% DruzismTemplate:Update inline |
Govrenment | Unitary dominant-party semi-presidential republic |
• Preses | Bashar al-Assad |
• Prime Meenister | Imad Khamis |
• Speaker o the Fowk's Cooncil | Hammouda Sabbagh |
Legislatur | Fowk's Cooncil |
Establishment | |
• Proclamation o Arab Kinrick o Sirie | 8 Mairch 1920 |
• State o Sirie established unner French Mandate | 1 December 1924 |
• Sirie Republic established bi merger o States o Jabal Druze, Alawites an Sirie | 1930 |
• Unthirldom (Jynt UN / French Mandate endit) | 24 October 1945 |
• Last French truips leave | 17 Apryle 1946 |
• Secession frae the Unitit Arab Republic | 28 September 1961 |
• Ba'ath pairty taks pouer | 8 Mairch 1963 |
• Current constitution | 27 Februar 2012 |
Aurie | |
• Total | 185,180 km2 (71,500 sq mi) (87th) |
• Water (%) | 1.1 |
Population | |
• July 2014 estimate | 17,064,854 (54t) |
• Density | 118.3/km2 (306.4/sq mi) (101st) |
GDP (PPP) | 2010 estimate |
• Total | $107.831 billion |
• Per capita | $5,040 |
GDP (nominal) | 2010 estimate |
• Tot | $59.957 billion |
• Per capita | $2,802 |
Gini (2014) | 55.8 heich |
HDI (2016) | 0.536 law · 149t |
Currency | Sirie pound (SYP) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Drivin side | right |
Cawin code | +963 |
ISO 3166 code | SY |
Internet TLD | .sy سوريا. |
Sirie is dividit intae fowerteen govrenorates, or muhafazat (singular: muhafazah). The govrenorates are dividit intae a total o saxty destricts, or manatiq (sing. mintaqah), which are further dividit intae sub-destricts, or nawahi (sing. nahiya).
A govrenor, whose appointment is proposed bi the meenister o the interior, approved bi the cabinet, an annoonced bi executive decree, heids each govrenorate. The govrenor is assistit bi an electit provincial cooncil.
The caipital Damascus is the seicont lairgest ceety in Sirie, an the metropolitan aurie is a govrenorate on its awn. Aleppo (population 1,671,673) in northren Sirie, the lairgest ceety, is an' a' a major industrial, urban an cultural center. Aleppo's auld toun haes been designatit bi the UNESCO as a Warld Heritage Steid. Latakia (population 554,000) alang wi Tartus are Sirie's main ports on the Mediterranean sea. Ither major ceeties include Hama (population 696,863) in central o Sirie, Homs (population 1,033,000) in the sooth o Hama an Deir ez-Zor (population 230,000) on the Euphrates river in eastren Sirie.
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