185,180 sq. km (71,518 sq. miles), including Israeli occupied territory; 31% arable, 46% meadowas and pastures, 3% forest, 20% desert, waste or urban.

193km (120 miles).

Territorial waters 65km (35nm), contiguous zone 75km (41nm), continental shelf 200m or to depth of exploitation.

19,314,747 (July 2007 est.); annual growth rate 2.244% (2007 est.). The population is90.3% Arab, 9.7% Kurds, Armenians and other.

74% Sunni Muslim, 16% Alawite, Druze and other Muslim sects, 10% Christians.

Arabic (official), Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian; French and English widely understood.

70%.

About 420,000.

8,000 Gendarmerie (under the Ministry of Interior); 1,800 Border Force (“Desert Guard”).

US$921 million (2001 based on official data on state expenditures that may be lower than real). Estimated to be 6% of GDP on 2005.