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Answer
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What is the capital of Syria?
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Damascus
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What is Syria's most populous city by city proper?
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Aleppo
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What is the name of the above in Arabic?
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Halab
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What body of water does Syria border?
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Mediterranean Sea
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What is the main port of Syria on the above?
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Latakia
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What is the longest river in Syria?
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Euphrates
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What large reservoir is built on that river by the Tabqa Dam? (hint: nation's president)
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Lake Assad
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What region includes Syria, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon?
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Levant
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What country does Syria share its longest border with?
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Turkey
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What river makes Syria's extreme northeastern border with that country?
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Tigris
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What ancient vegetation area was Syria part of, also known as the "cradle of civilization"?
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Fertile Crescent
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What political party currently controls the Syrian government?
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Ba'ath
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What is the main ethnic group of the people who founded the Rojava autonomous region?
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Kurds
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What area did Israel take from Syria during the Six-Day War?
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Golan Heights
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Put on your thinking cap ...what desert covers most of Syria?
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Syrian Desert
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What city, startin with R, did the ISIL make their capital in 2014?
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Raqqa
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What mosque in the capital is Syria's largest and one of world's oldest? (hint: namesake of a major Islamic caliphate)
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Umayyad Mosque
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What is the third-largest city in Syria, formerly known as Emesa?
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Homs
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Put on your thinking cap ... what mountain range makes most of Syria's border with Lebanon?
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Anti-Lebanon Mountains
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What city, starting with I, is considered the seat of the Syrian Salvation Government?
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Idlib
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