Travel & technology
Electric power
- Plug shape
- Voltage
- 220V, 50Hz
Phone dialing
- Code to call Syria
- +963
What every visitor should know about Syria:
- Money
- The currency is the Syrian pound (SYP). 10 SYP is worth about US$0.22, or €0.16.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 5 out of 5 (Very safe)
Areas of concern:
- Credit-card fraud
- Capital
- Damascus
- Tap water
- Not recommended. Water is usually drinkable in large cities, but quality is uneven.
Syria facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 20,178,485
- Language
- Arabic (official); Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian widely understood; French, English somewhat understood
- Ethnicity
- Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%
Economy
- GDP
- US$4,900 (per capita)