Syria Administrative boundaries for levels 0 - 4, with Arabic Names, English Names, and p-codes. Geodatabase maintains Arabic names better than shapefile Note that Admin 4 is the populated places layer. Admin Level 1= Governorate = Mohafaza Admin Level 2 = District = Mantika Admin Level 3 = Sub-district= Nahya Populated places (also known as "Admin Level 4") = City or Village Dataset organization: Administrative boundary resources (shapefiles, geodatabases. and gazetteer) are separate from the populated places shapefiles resources except the live geoservices, which provide both administrative boundaries and populated places. Most Recent Changes: 15 January 2021 ITOS geoservices, shapefile, and geodatabase for populated places ("administrative level 4") added. 12 January 2021 ITOS geoservices, shapefiles, and geodatabase added. EMF files added. ITOS gazetteer added. 18-August-2020 added 327 Communities. 21-March-2019 added 14 Communities. 19-Dec-2018 Use the Neighborhood as point loaded in the same layer/ Excel file called as a humanitarian Location added 11 Communities. 01-July-2018 added 1528 Communities and some localities moved to their accurate locations 31-Jan-2018- added 91 populated places and areas, some localities moved to their accurate locations, essential change in the admin boundary in Tartous Governorate at Admin 2 and Admin 3 1-June-2017- added 24 populated places and areas 22-Feb-2017- added three populated places and fixed some typos in admin4 and neighborhoods 04-Oct-2016 - Added two populated places 20-Sept-2016 - Built-up polygonal layer was created so that for each populated place there is a corresponding built-up poplygon; Added populated places based on feedback from humanitarian partners ; Neighborhood layer now includes 11 main cities with new p-codes ; column names follow global standard; reference names are unique both in English and Arabic 12-Jan-2014 - Shape file version posted. UTF-8 has been used to enable the correct display of Arabic characters. 19-May-2013 - New features added to Admin4 ; English Names edited to be consistent in all Admin levels; locations of few communities adjusted 07-Jan-2013 - Column with Capitals of Administrative Units (1 - 3) added to Populated Places (Admin 4). No changes. 19-Dec-2012 - Minor change: erroneous Admin 1 p-code for the populated place Arab Elmalik Jerkes (p-code = C3571) corrected (from SY010 to SY10). 12-Dec-2012 - Added neighborhoods , currently Damascus only. Added "C" as leading character of pcodes at level 4 (populated places) to ensure uniqueness. The digits remain the same from earlier versions. 24-Sep-2012 - Consolidated spelling between all 4 levels for all admin levels. Pcodes added. 24-Aug-2012 - Shapefile versions added. Exported from the geodatabase version of 30-June-2011. 30-Jun-2012 - Topology cleaned, underscores removed from admin names. Languages: EN AR

The dataset contains information about people in need in the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria)

Total Population by Governorate 2011 according to civil affairs records, and Estimates of population by governorate 12/2011 according to Central Bureau Of Statistics, distribution of Palestinian refugees by governorate and the Rate of unemployment by governorates. Data sourced from the Central Bureau Of Statistics http://www.cbssyr.org.

Economic/livelihood (labour) indicators 2006 - 2012 (Worldbank) on labour, unemployment and economic activities. Data consolidated from data.worldbank.org.

Nutrition indicators 2003-2011 from data.worldbank.org

Military expenditure Syria 2003-2011 (worldbank) Table of military expenditure consolidated by data.worldbank.org

Education data 2000 - 2010 consolidated from data.worldbank.org.

Energy data (2003-2010) including access to electricity, energy production, sources, use, fossil consumption consolidated from data.worldbank.org.

Economic/livelihood (trade) indicators 2000-2010 (gov stats) Economic / livelihood indicators on imports dependency rates.Data ranges from 2000-2010.

Health indicators for Syria from 1990 - 2010.

Population numbers and demographic indicators from the 2004 census disaggregated by administrative levels 1, 2, 3, and 4. Pcodes (unique identifiers) for each geographic unit are included. Primary language is English, includes geographic names in Arabic. There are 892 admin level 4 places that do not have Pcodes, and 769 locations that need translation to English, work to improve this dataset is on-going.

Lakes and Rivers Open Street Map data clipped Dec 2012

Summary: Economic/Livelihood (poverty) indicators 2000-2010 (worldbank) Abstract: Economic / livelihood: Poverty indicators for 2000-2010

Economic data 2000-2014 (EIU) Economic indicators including projection until 2014. Includes GDPs rates, inflation, tradebalance, international reserves etc.