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Syria · electricity network
Syria power grid
OverWatts maps 7,365 km of Syria's electricity transmission network across 358 line segments and 0 substations, the 40th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 5,376 km — 73% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 400 kV. That works out to 39.8 km per 1,000 km² of land — strong OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 80% of mapped countries. It is connected to 4 neighbouring grids by 1,400 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Syria's network — not how much network exists. Large, sparsely-populated countries score low for geographic reasons alone, and every kilometre here is mapped length, so the totals are a floor rather than an operator-reported figure. 0% of segments carry a real line name and 0% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 380–764 kV1,989 km 27%
- 220–379 kV5,376 km 73%
358 segments · a segment is credited to the country containing its midpoint, so a border-crossing line counts once, on one side.
Cross-border links from Syria
1.4 GW existing · capacities from the Global Transmission Database v0.1 (CC BY 4.0), existing as of 2023
On the interactive map
Load against the network
Where there is room to connect a new load depends on published hosting capacity, which most operators release only as their own map. OverWatts does not yet ingest those feeds, so these are the density measures the open data supports — generation and mapped demand against mapped network — not a headroom figure.
How Syria compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 38. Romania7,845 km
- 39. Indonesia7,547 km
- 40. Syria7,365 km
- 41. Malaysia7,290 km
- 42. Belarus6,884 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Syria's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 7,365 km of transmission line in Syria, across 358 segments, plus 0 substations. This is mapped length from OpenStreetMap, not an operator-reported total — where OSM is incomplete the figure is a floor, never a ceiling.
- What voltage is Syria's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 5,376 km of 7,365 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 400 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Syria?
- Strong — 39.8 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 80% of the 153 countries with any mapped grid. Coverage grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn the network, not how much network exists; large, sparsely-populated countries score low for geographic reasons alone.
- What interconnectors connect Syria to its neighbours?
- 1,400 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Syria
Network geometry: OpenStreetMap (ODbL) © OpenStreetMap contributors, ingested and measured by OverWatts · derived 2026-07-26. Counts every mapped line of 220 kV and above; the map layer draws the ≥380 kV backbone only, so it shows less than is measured here.