Map of Syria

Syria is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 35.0° N, 38.0° E. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Syria is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Syria shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Syria covers about 185,180 km² (71,498 sq mi). That makes it the 87th-largest country in the world by area and the 24th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 25 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 25,620,000, the 57th-largest in the world and the 22nd-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Syria has an average population density of about 138 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 22nd by population and 24th by area.

The seat of government is Damascus, and the official currency is the Syrian pound (SYP, £), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Syria carries the ISO country codes SY and SYR, dials on the international calling code +963 and uses the .sy, سوريا. internet domain.

Syria shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Turkey (capital Ankara, about 85,664,944 people), Iraq (capital Baghdad, about 46,118,793 people), Jordan (capital Amman, about 11,734,000 people), Israel (capital Jerusalem, about 10,134,800 people) and Lebanon (capital Beirut, about 5,490,000 people).

By area, Syria is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 35.0° N, 38.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Syria within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Damascus. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Syria lies about 3,885 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Syria keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Syrian pound (SYP, £).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +963 and websites commonly use the .sy, سوريا. internet domain.

In short, Syria is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Damascus. Syria has a population of about 25,620,000 and covers around 185,180 km² (71,498 sq mi), ranking it 57th in the world by population and 87th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Syria.

The flag of Syria is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and black. At the center of the white band are two small five-pointed green stars arranged in a horizontal line.

The flag of Syria is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.