Now,this a page about my country , for starter and let me tell you ignorant where the hell it is
 

so this is called middle east region , you can see the Mediterranean see at your left and the arapic/persian golf at the right corner

Now here's some statistics about my country : 185.180 km²
                                                                 capital : Damascus
                                                                 population : 17 millions (90% arabs)
                                                                 religion : 86% islam
for more infos go there: More infos on my great country provided by Encarta
now some pictures about SYRIA i have a lot more but this is a quick start

from this port the EAST gave the Mediterranean world it's alphabet and it's culture
temple dedicated to Ishtar (X century before JC)
Bosra (home land of the Roman emperor Philip in 244) a Roman theater fortified by the Omeyyades
Aleppo was the capital of a great state in the XVIII century b.c
Damascus the oldest capital still in use
Qalaat Ja'abar exists since the Bysanthian era
Jerf al ahmer where houses and agriculture were invented
A castle build by the crusaders who resisted there for 2 centuries ,they were kicked in 1271 by Baybars
This is lack Assad an artificial lack of 11 000 000 000 m²
Mari a state 5000 years old!!!!
though they discovered a city 6000 old  Oldest city ever
This castle was built to monitor the "silk road"
Ugarit and it's alphabet of 30 "signs"

There i have a lot more about my great country, stay tuned