Map of Syria

Open Syria on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.

Facts

As the source states them, in the source’s own words.

CapitalDamascus
Area185,180 km²
CurrencySYP (Syrian pound)
LanguagesArabic

Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.

Historical maps

IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that Syria existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.

Map of the Middle East Map of Africa Map of Europe

Dated events in this outline

Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of Syria. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.

  1. 1915

    The Armenian genocide — the deportation law of 27 May 1915 and the death marches into the Syrian desert

    World War I · IntMap’s war record

    27 May →
  2. 1918

    The capture of Damascus — Australian light horse and the Arab army enter the city on the same morning

    World War I · IntMap’s war record

    26 September →
  3. 1941

    The Syria-Lebanon campaign — Free French and British against Vichy

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    8 June →
  4. 1967

    The escarpment is climbed and the Golan Heights taken

    Arab–Israeli Wars · IntMap’s war record

    9 June →
  5. 1974

    The Golan disengagement agreement — Quneitra is returned to Syria

    Arab–Israeli Wars · IntMap’s war record

    31 May →

Open data about Syria

The datasets IntMap may share about Syria, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/SYR.json

airports

Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)

country-facts

ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0

health

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial

Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data

language

public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit

Credit: CIA World Factbook, Language identity, genealogical classification and endangerment status — Glottolog (CC BY 4.0)

mobility

ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)

religion

public domain · Requires: nothing

What this page states

The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.

A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.

An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.

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