Syrien - Daten & Fakten
Länderstatistik
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 midnight on the last Friday in March; ends at midnight on the last Friday in October
etymology: Damascus is a very old city; its earliest name, Temeseq, first appears in an Egyptian geographical list of the 15th century B.C., but the meaning is uncertain
citizenship by descent only: the father must be a citizen of Syria; if the father is unknown or stateless, the mother must be a citizen of Syria
dual citizenship recognized: yes
residency requirement for naturalization: 10 years
land: 185,887 sq km
water: 1,550 sq km
note: includes 1,295 sq km of Israeli-occupied territory
arable land: 25.4% (2018 est.)
permanent crops: 5.8% (2018 est.)
permanent pasture: 44.6% (2018 est.)
forest: 2.7% (2018 est.)
other: 21.5% (2018 est.)
15-64 years: 62.58% (male 7,141,423/female 7,209,386)
65 years and over: 4.15% (2023 est.) (male 445,288/female 506,335)
major-language sample(s):
كتاب حقائق العالم، المصدر الذي لا يمكن الاستغناء عنه للمعلومات الأساسية (Arabic)
ڕاستییەکانی جیهان، باشترین سەرچاوەیە بۆ زانیارییە بنەڕەتییەکان (Kurdish)
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male: 73.1 years
female: 76.1 years
male: 23.3 years
female: 24.5 years
note: the ongoing civil war has altered the population distribution
rate of urbanization: 5.38% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
male: 9 years
female: 9 years (2013)
10.26% (2020 est.)
8.77% (2019 est.)
91.3% of GDP (2016 est.)
47.3% (2016 est.)
$1.705 billion (2016 est.)
$5.496 billion (2016 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 9 (2020 est.)
percent of population: 46.6% (2022 est.)
standard gauge: 1,801 km (2014) 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 251 km (2014) 1.050-m gauge
paved: 63,060 km (2010)
unpaved: 6,813 km (2010)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 13 (2021 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 80 (2021 est.)
Syria-Iraq: none identified
Syria-Israel: Golan Heights is Israeli-controlled with UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) patrolling a buffer zone since 1974; because of ceasefire violations and increased military activity in the Golan Heights, the UN Security Council continues to extend UNDOF’s mandate; since 2000, Lebanon has claimed Shab'a Farms in the Golan Heights
Syria-Jordan: the two countries signed an agreement in 2005 to settle the border dispute based on a 1931 demarcation accord; the two countries began demarcation in 2006
Syria-Lebanon: discussions on demarcating the two countries’ maritime borders were held in April 2021, after Syria signed a contract with a Russian company to conduct oil and gas exploration in a disputed maritime area, but the issue was not resolved
Syria-Turkey: none identified