The Homs is the third Syrian city in terms of population and importance after Damascus and Aleppo, located in the western part of central Syria, and on the road between Damascus and Aleppo and away (160) kilometers from the capital, Damascus, the center's largest Syrian provinces bearing its name (Homs) since 1931, and is location average link between the northern and southern regions, West and East, and rising from the sea (508).
With a population of 800 thousand people, and maintaining population of about 2.5 million people and an area of 42,218 kilometers, or about four times the size of the Republic of Lebanon, and is a market for the Syrian desert, an important center for agriculture Things such as grains, vegetables, cotton and sugar beets, as it is an industrial center cares textile industry which is rich in laboratories and factories, where an oil refinery.
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Syria