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Syrian Arab Republic
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Capital: Damascus
Total Area: 71,498 sq mi,185,180.00 sq km,(slightly larger than North Dakota)
Population: 16,728,808 (July 2001 est.), 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
Estimated Population in 2050: 34,437,235
Languages: Arabic (official); Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian widely understood; French, English somewhat understood
Literacy: 70.8% total, 85.7% male, 55.8% female (1997 est.)
Religions: Sunni Muslim 74%, Alawite, Druze, and other Muslim sects 16%, Christian (various sects) 10%, Jewish (tiny communities in Damascus, Al Qamishli, and Aleppo)
Life Expectancy: 67.63 male, 69.98 female (2001 est.)
Government Type: republic under military regime since March 1963
Currency: 1 Syrian pound = 100 piastres
GDP (per capita): $3,100 (2000 est.)
Industry: petroleum, textiles, food processing, beverages, tobacco, phosphate rock mining
Agriculture: wheat, barley, cotton, lentils, chickpeas, olives, sugar beets; beef, mutton, eggs, poultry, milk
Arable Land: 28%
Natural Resources: petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower
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