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Location:
Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey
Population:
16,305,659
note: in addition, there are about 38,200 people living in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights - 18,200 Arabs (16,500 Druze and 1,700 Alawites) and about 20,000 Israeli settlers (July 2000 est.)
Ethnic groups:
Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%
Religions:
Sunni Muslim 74%, Alawite, Druze, and other Muslim sects 16%, Christian (various sects) 10%, Jewish (tiny communities in Damascus, Al Qamishli, and Aleppo)
Languages:
Arabic (official); Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian widely understood; French, English somewhat understood
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
Natural resources:
petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower
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- Federation of Syrian Chambers of Commerce - looks after commercial, economic and trade activities, acts for chambers of commerce, and holds conferences and trade fairs
- Assyrian American Association of Modesto
- Sanghi Organization
- British Council in Syria
- Syrian Human Rights Committee - provides the international community with information on the human rights situation.
- Syrian Social Nationalist Party
- Syrian Computer Society
- Scientific Studies and Research Center of the Syrian Arabic Republic
- Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) - profile from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) - profile from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
- Syrian Social Nationalist Party - includes ideology, news, and a library.
- Syrian Social Nationalist Party Australia - includes information about Antoun Saadeh, picture gallery, discussion poll, chat, ideology, quiz, and news.
- Golan - Syrian point of view that explains why the Golan has always been and will remain a part of Syria.
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- Organization of the Economy
- Organization of Society
- Organization of Thought
- Qamishly - about people and culture i.e. songs of different ethnic groups
- Syria photo diary - by Robert Bremec
- Assad - This site is designed as a tribute to the legacy of Late President Hafez Assad
- Syria Art - a website on painting, graphic, photography, sculpture, and artists and their work
- Chronology of Different Civilizations in Syria
- Syrian Kurdistan(Western Kurdistan) Home page
- Syrian Arab Association for SOS Children's Villages
- Caucasus Foundation - The Caucasus Foundation is a non-profit non-governmental organization, carrying out several activities for preserving and fostering socio-cultural relations of the Caucasians living at diasporas or at Caucasus
- Made In Syria Web Site - part of the the ongoing process of creating a content-rich site that will house a large listing of businesses in Syria, as well as Syrian owned business throughout the world
- Souria.com - an interactive web-site, which specializes in offering quality information about Syria
- Syria Information - Facts, Geography, People, Government, Flag, Economy and Syria Map
- Art Museum in Syria
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