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Country: Syrian Arab Republic (The Syrian Arab Republic)Independence Day: April 17 (1946)National Day: April 17 (1946)Flag: a rectangular, long and wide ratio of 3:2.Top-down by the flag of red, white, black three parallel connected to a horizontal rectangle, in the white part of the same size there are two green Wu Jiaoxing.Red symbolizes courage, white symbolizes purity and tolerance, Mohammed black is a symbol of victory has been won, green is the descendants of Muhammad's favorite color, Wu Jiaoxing symbol of the Arab revolution.National Emblem: from the national flag and the eagle logo, and other components.Youth Pre-employment of an eagle with shield-shaped front of the national flag logo.Below is a shield-shaped cross the two ear of wheat, the symbol of the country's crops.Shoudai at the bottom of the Arabic saying "the Syrian Arab Republic."Damascus, one of the landmark building - Japanese Maya Mosque "National political figures: President Bashar al-Assad (Bashar al-Assad), 2000年7月representation.Physical Geography: 185,180 square km area (including the Golan Heights).The Asian continent in the west, the east coast of the Mediterranean.North and the Turkish border, at the junction of East and Iraq, Jordan and the adjoining South, Southwest and adjacent to Lebanon and Palestine, West and Cyprus at the Mediterranean sea.A coastline of 183 km.Most of the Northwest Territories is tilted to the southeast of the plateau.There are four main areas: the western mountains and mountain Longitudinal Valley; Mediterranean coastal plain; inland plain; southeast of the Syrian desert.Sheikh southwest of the mountain peak for the country.The Euphrates flows through the eastern part of Iraq into the Persian Gulf, the western region of ACE Longitudinal River into the Mediterranean via Turkey.Coastal and northern regions of the Mediterranean subtropical climate, the southern region is a tropical desert climate.Four distinct seasons, winter rainfall in the desert less, the hot dry summer.Population: 18392000 (2002).Which accounted for more than 80 percent of Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, Turkomen and Cheerkesi people, and so on.Arabic for Mandarin, English and French GM.85% of the population Muslim, 14 percent Christian.Among them, accounting for 80 percent of Sunni Islam (about 68% of the population), accounting for 20 percent Shiite, Allawi in the Shiite faction in the 75 per cent (about 11.5% of the population).Syrian fourth largest city in Austria Hama-Corrientes River on the giant water tankers.Hama city in history, "the state of water tankers," said theCapital: Damascus (Damascus) as the "Kingdom of Heaven in the city," So far, 4,500 years of history.Has a population of 3.7 million (2002).In 661 AD, the Arab Umayyads in its capital.Currently, the city's famous monuments are Japanese Maya Grand Mosque, the Arab Museum of Medical Sciences, Nourredine bath, and the eyes of the Christians of St. Kaisang doors and St. Paul church.Administrative Division: country is divided into 14 provinces and cities: Damascus Rural Province, Homs province, Hama province Lattakia province, Yidelibu Province, Tartous province, Sumatra province cards, Deerzuer Province , Hasai Ke Province, De La Province, Su Weida province of Quneitra Province, the city of Damascus and Aleppo Province.History: Syria has 4,000 years of history.3000 BC city-state has the original there.8 century BC Assyrian empire was conquered.In 333 BC, the Macedonian army invasion of Syria.BC 64 by the Romans occupied.7 end of the century Arab empire into the territory.11th century European crusaders invasion.13 by the end of the century from Egypt Mamuluke dynasty rule.From the beginning of the 16th century was annexed to the Ottoman Empire 400 years.April 1920, becoming the appointment of France to rule.Beginning of World War II, Britain and France "free the French army" with open-Syrian.September 27, 1941, "Free French army" commander-in-chief General Gude Lu on behalf of its allies to declare an independent Syria.August 1943 set up their own government and Syria, in April 1946, the French and British troops were forced to withdraw all Syrian achieved independence, the establishment of the Syrian Arab Republic.February 1, 1958, Syria and Egypt merged into United Arab Republic.September 28, 1961, Syria out of Afghanistan and the re-establishment of the Syrian Arab Republic.Politics: Constitution of the Islamic law is based mainly on legislation.Parliament also known as the People's Assembly, have the power to legislate, its functions are: President of the Republic of candidates nominated through the law; cabinet to discuss policy through the national budget and development plan approved by the relevant national security, international treaties and agreements; decision amnesty; acceptance and approval 's Resignation and the withdrawal of the cabinet members of the trust.Members of a four-year term.President heads of state, commander in chief of the armed forces.Syrian troops from Lebanon, means that the Syrian presence in Lebanon as long as 29 years of military presence in the end.Economy: more advantageous natural conditions, abundant mineral resources, mainly oil, phosphate, natural gas, rock salt, asphalt, and so on.Agriculture in the national economy occupy an important position is the Arab world, one of the five food-exporting countries.Weak industrial base, state-dominated economy, only several decades of modern industrial history.Existing industries into the extractive industries, processing industries and utilities industries.Developing the oil industry, natural gas, phosphate, marble, and so on.Processing industries are mainly textiles, food, leather, chemicals, cement, tobacco, and so on.Syria has famous archaeological sites, summer resort.These tourism resources to attract large numbers of tourists every year.Old City of Damascus with 1,300 years of history,With national and local geographical and cultural characteristics of the gold jewelry is well knownSyria is the Middle East Mediterranean countries access to the corridors, land, sea and air transport are relatively well developed.245 km northeast of Damascus, known as a "desert of the bride," Taiwan and Germany Anamur City ruins.It is the Year 2-3 linking China and the West Asia, Europe and the Road to the ancient Silk Road city.Press and Publications: Arabic Daily national "renaissance", "revolution", "October", the circulation of all 40,000 copies.Local Arabic daily "the masses", "dedication" and "Arabism" and "unity reported."Another English-language daily also issued "Syria Times" and the Arabic "farmers Weekly" and "Workers Weekly."Is the official SANA news agency, Syrian radio station established in 1936, in the provinces and municipalities to establish a local radio station.Run, there are two radio programmes, broadcast an average total of 34 hours a day, in addition to Arabic, also broadcast by Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Turkmenistan (Turkey), Greece (Hebrew), West (Spain) 7 Language radio.Syrian television station was established in July 1960, offered three channels, the total broadcast 48 hours a day.In addition to Arabic programmes, also broadcast the British, French program.A Syrian female students on campusSeptember 2001, President Bashar promulgation of Presidential Decree No. 50, announced the implementation of the new press and publications law, enacted in 1949 to replace the old law.The new law provides that the publishing industry licensing proposed by the Information Minister, the Prime Minister approval.Foreign Affairs: Foreign pursue non-alignment, imperialism, colonialism, racism against the policy, implemented a multi-directional foreign policy, advocate of forging unity of Arab countries, big and small countries are equal basis for establishing a new international order, and actively support and participate in the Non-Aligned Campaign.The League of Arab States, the Arab Parliamentary Union and the Arab Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries member countries.Relations with China: August 1, 1956, Syria established diplomatic relations with China.June 2004, President Bashar on a state visit to China.Reproduced: http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2002-06/18/content_445852.htm

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