Located in the Middle East bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey.

Syria is bordered by Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.

Domain Information

Syria is located in ICANN's Asia/Australia/Pacific Region. Anyone located in this region is eligible for .asia domain registrations. If one of your contacts lives in Syria you can register a .asia domain.

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country or a dependent territory.

ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and with certain exceptions corresponds to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.

Syria ccTLD: .sy

The country code is open to foreign registrations.

Country Information

Population

19314747 (July 07 est)

Capital

Damascus

GDP

$24.26 billion (2006 est)

Currency

Syrian Pound (SYP)

Internet Hosts

119 (2007)

Internet Users

1.5 million (2006)