net hosts:
11 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)

Internet users:
220,000 (2002)

Transportation Syria

Railways:
total: 2,711 km
standard gauge: 2,460 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 251 km 1.050-m gauge (2003)

Highways:
total: 43,381 km
paved: 10,021 km (including 877 km of expressways)
unpaved: 33,360 km (1999)

Waterways:
900 km (not economically significant) (2002)

Pipelines:
gas 2,300 km; oil 2,183 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Baniyas, Jablah, Latakia, Tartus

Merchant marine:
total: 122 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 446,981 GRT/636,620 DWT
foreign-owned: Egypt 1, Germany 1, Greece 1, Italy 1, Lebanon 10,
Romania 1
registered in other countries: 83 (2004 est.)
by type: bulk 12, cargo 101, container 2, livestock carrier 4,
petroleum tanker 1, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 1

Airports:
93 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 26
over 3,047 m: 5
2,438 to 3,047 m: 16
under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)
914 to 1,523 m: 3

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 66
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 10
under 914 m: 54 (2004 est.)

Heliports:
7 (2003 est.)

Military Syria

Military branches:
Syrian Arab Army, Syrian Arab Navy, Syrian Arab Air Force
(including Air Defense Command), Police and Security Force

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service
obligation - 30 months (2004)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 4,876,040 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 2,716,054 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 216,077 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$858 million (FY00 est.); note - based on official budget data that
may understate actual spending

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
5.9% (FY00)

Transnational Issues Syria

Disputes - international:
Golan Heights is Israeli-occupied; Lebanon claims Shaba'a farms in
Golan Heights; Syrian troops have been stationed in Lebanon since
October 1976; Syria protests Turkish hydrological projects
regulating upper Euphrates waters; settled border dispute with
Jordan in 2004

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 413,827 (Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA))
IDPs: 170,000 (most displaced from Go