Syria, [a] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [b] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.Within the region of the Middle East, it is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.It is a republic that consists of 14 governorates as subdivisions. More @Wikipedia
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