• 14 governorates

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Syria’s governorates, from the Mediterranean coast to the Euphrates and the border with Iraq.

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Write the name of each numbered governorate.Answer key

  1. Al-Hasakah
  2. Aleppo
  3. As-Suwayda
  4. Damascus
  5. Daraa
  6. Deir ez-Zor
  7. Hama
  8. Homs
  9. Idlib
  10. Latakia
  11. Quneitra
  12. Raqqa
  13. Rif Dimashq
  14. Tartus

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each governorate is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a governorate is answered.

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  1. Al-Hasakah
  2. Aleppo
  3. As-Suwayda
  4. Damascus
  5. Daraa
  6. Deir ez-Zor
  7. Hama
  8. Homs
  9. Idlib
  10. Latakia
  11. Quneitra
  12. Raqqa
  13. Rif Dimashq
  14. Tartus

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01; ids, points and accepted spellings are as the points file records them, with one change: this file places the ring of Damascus north-northwest of the city (lx 72, ly 663) and not where the points file has it (65.1, 685), so that on the sheet with names the leader line does not run through the word written at the ring; a computed position on Rif Dimashq, checked on a rendering of the sheet. The 14 governorates are today's first-level units. The count and every name were compared on 2026-10-01 with the list of ISO 3166-2 codes for Syria as Wikipedia prints it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:SY, 14 codes) and with Wikipedia's table of governorates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorates_of_Syria, 14 rows with areas); the two have the same 14 as the drawing. The map source has a fifteenth unit, the United Nations buffer zone on the Golan Heights; the spec draws it as part of Quneitra Governorate. The outline follows the map source: the Golan Heights west of the buffer zone are drawn with Israel, so the Quneitra shape is only the eastern part of the governorate as Syria defines it. The Euphrates is a sheet layer nobody taps. The neighbors and the capital named in the page copy are from the lead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria, read the same day. Read again on 2026-10-03: the leads of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria (14 governorates), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorates_of_Syria, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates. The outline was compared on 2026-10-03 with the Natural Earth 1:10m file the drawing names (the cached download of 2026-09-19): the two cover the same area. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Layers that cannot be tapped from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centered on 34.5°N 37°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of Syria shows the country’s 14 governorates and the Euphrates, with the neighboring countries drawn as plain land. Switch Borders off and it prints as a plain outline of Syria.

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Coast and river

Latakia and Tartus are the two governorates on the Mediterranean coast. The Euphrates crosses Aleppo, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor on its way from Turkey to Iraq. Homs reaches from Lebanon in the west to Iraq in the east.

The south and the northeast

Quneitra, Daraa and As-Suwayda lie in the south, below Damascus. Daraa and As-Suwayda reach the border with Jordan, and As-Suwayda is the southernmost governorate. Al-Hasakah fills the far northeast corner.

  • Damascus is its own governorate, a small shape inside Rif Dimashq, so its number stands in a ring beside it.

Questions and answers

How many governorates does Syria have?

Fourteen. Damascus, the capital, is a governorate of its own, surrounded by Rif Dimashq, the Damascus Countryside governorate. All 14 are numbered on this map.

What is the largest governorate of Syria?

By area, Homs, the wide shape in the middle of the map. Damascus, the city governorate in the southwest, is the smallest.

Which countries border Syria?

Turkey (north), Iraq (east and southeast), Jordan (south), and Israel and Lebanon (southwest). The Mediterranean Sea is to the west.

Are Syria’s borders disputed?

Some borders on this map are disputed. The map follows Natural Earth, a public-domain map source, and does not take a side. In the southwest it draws the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967, outside Syria’s outline.

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