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Syria information
Summary
| Location: | Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey |
| Population: | 19,747,586
note: in addition, about 40,000 people live in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights - 20,000 Arabs (18,000 Druze and 2,000 Alawites) and about 20,000 Israeli settlers (July 2008 est.) |
| Capital: | name: Damascus
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 1 April; ends 30 September |
| GDP per capita: | $4,900 (2008 est.) |
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