10 Things You Didn't Know About Syria

Ten Things About Syria:

1. Syria is know for having a diversity of ethnic groups, even though one is dominant, they have a variety of Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%.
2. Syria is known for having diversity in religions, it has a typical religion that is dominant. The religions are: Sunni Muslim 74%, Alawite, Druze, and other Muslim sects 16%, Christian 10%, Jewish.
3. Even though Syria is going through dificult civil moment, they have diversity in exporting:crude oil, petroleum products, fruits and vegetables, cotton fiber, clothing, meat and live animals, wheat.
4. Syria cannot produce everything in their own, so they need to import a series of essential material for their economy to rise:

   machinery and transport equipment, electric power machinery, food and livestock, metal and metal products, chemicals and chemical products, plastics, yarn, paper. As well as other countries, Syria has a relation with other countries in order to trade, Ukraine 11%, Turkey 8.7%, Saudi Arabia 6.9%, South Korea 5.9%. Syria has passed by many terrible situations such as civil wars, and political problems. That has led syria to lower its rates, but even though they have improved their services rate: agriculture: 24.9% industry: 23% services: 51.9%  ONE of the reasons of the civil and social problems that syrias posseses is because the republic was under military regime since March 1963. Syria suffers from ecological issues: deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification; water pollution from raw sewage and petroleum refining wastes; inadequate potable water. The climate varies a lot, mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet periodically in Damascus. The main topographic characteristic is primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west.