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Syria (Arabic: سورية‎ Sūriya or Sūrya), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (الجمهورية العربية السورية), is an Arab country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria

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