Syria: all about this country and its main places!

General Information About Syria

Population

There are 18,564,000 inhabitants, or 0.25% of the population of planet earth. 23.50 years is the median age in this country and the birth growth rate is at 6.39%.

Geography

Damascus serves as this nation's capital and the country shares a border with Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey. 185,180 km² make up the entire country, they don't use a postcode system and the key cities are: دمشق, الباب, القامشلي, دمشق, Nusaybin. Here are the different languages spoken in the country: Arabic.

Education

On average citizens spend 9 years in school (including higher education).

Economy

The currency symbol is £, and the ISO code for that currency is SYP.

Culture

You can find some UNESCO listed places: Ancient City of Damascus, Ancient City of Aleppo, Ancient City of Bosra, Site of Palmyra, Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din. Interesting food you need to try here: Kibbeh.

Good to know

Visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria to learn more about this nation. The country's ISO code is SY, the country's websites have the domain name ".sy", telephone numbers begin with +963

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