Syria

V・T・E Syria, Asia

latitude: 34.615, longitude: 37.965

Browse map of Syria 34°36′54.00″ N, 37°57′54.00″ E

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Syria is a Country in Asia at latitude 34°36′54.00″ North, longitude 37°57′54.00″ East.

Arab Republic of Syria is a country in Southwest Asia with arabic as official language

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Damascus is missing some roads some on the outskirts. Aleppo is missing some residential areas outside of town as well.

Administrative regions in Syria

Governorate boundaries for Syria added from maplibrary.org's ESRI shape file. Southmost border Syria - Jordan corrected which seemed to be wrong.

Administrative regions and neighborhood boundaries can also be added from OCHA: [1]. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Street Names

Example of Street Sign in Damascus. Both Arabic and English names can be obtained from these signs

Street Names for highways, alleys and other roads can be obtained either by using street signs(if available) or asking locals what they call the street.

Highway/Roads classification in Syria

Motorways in Syria

• Mashreq international roads (2001)
• M (highway=motorway) : The M1 and M3 are motorways and the M5 has a motorway section but the M4 is an ordinary road (highway=primary).
• M1 Halab (Aleppo) - Jordanian border.

Main roads in Syria

• Single digit road numbers (highway=primary) are used for main national roads.
• 1 coast road
• 2, 3 and 4 are east-west routes increasing to the north
• 5 north-south route increasing to the east. 5 is parallel to the M1 and some sections overlap.
• 6 and 7 are north-south routes increasing to the east (but 7 is diagonal and crosses 2 and 5 at Dimashq (Damascus).

Railways

• Hejaz Railway Hejaz Railway
• Latakia–Aleppo railway Latakia–Aleppo railway
• Aleppo–Meydan Ekbez railway Aleppo–Meydan Ekbez railway
• Aleppo–Çobanbey railway Aleppo–Çobanbey railway

Major cities in Syria

• Damascus is the capital of Syria
• Aleppo (OSM, Yahoo hires)
• Homs (see Syria/Homs_mapping_progress)
• Hamah
• Palmyre

External Map Links

• Syria Email List: talk-sy
• http://www.souria.com/ar/tt/tm.asp
• detailed map for each city with road names http://www.syriatourism.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showgall&gid=26
  • the syriatourism.org link above appears to be unreachable at the moment, but an archived copy is reachable at the Internet Archive.
• Syria maps from the Perry Casteneda Library at University of Texas-Austin - mostly CIA or other US Government sources (public domain)

Ref	Name	Towns	Km	OSM status
M10	Northern Iraq-East Mediterranean	Hajj Omran (Iraq/Iran) - Irbil - Mosul - Rabieyyah (Iraq/Syria) - Yaaroubia (Syria/Iraq) - Kamishli - Aleppo - Lattakia		3018358 3018358|
M15	Aleppo-Ramadi	Aleppo - Deir Ez Zor - Albu Kamal (Syria/Iraq) - Al kaem - (Iraq/Syria) - Ramadi		3018537 3018537|
M20	Central Syria	Kamishli - Hasakah - Deir Ez Zor - Homs - Tartus		3018653 3018653|
M30	Western Iraq-Eastern Mediterranean	Al Rutbah - Al Walid (Iraq/Syria) - Tanf (Syria/Iraq) - Damascus - Jedeidet Yabus (Syria/Lebanon) - Masna' (Lebanon/Syria) - Beirut		3018805 3018805|
M45	Syria-Jordan-Saudi Arabia-Yemen	Bab Al Hawa (Syria/Turkey) - Aleppo - Homs - Damascus - Nasib (Syria/Jordan) - Jaber (Jordan/Syria) - Amman - Ma'an - Al Mudawara (Jordan/Saudi Arabia) - Halat Ammar (Saudi Arabia/Jordan) - Tabuk - Qalibah - Medina - Mecca - Abha - Elb (Saudi Arabia/Yemen) - Baqim (Yemen/Saudi Arabia) - Sana'a - Ta'izz		3018402 3018402|
M51	Eastern Mediterranean Coast	Kassab - Lattakia - Tartous - Dabboussieh (Syria/Lebanon) - Abboudieh (Lebanon/Syria) - Tripoli - Beirut - Naqoura		3018435 3018435|