Municipalities of Syria

The Syrian Arab Republic (informally Syria), one of the 20 republics of the Arab Union, consists of 115 municipalities (Arabic: بلديات baladiyāt; sg. بلدية baladiyah), which are the republic's units of local government and constitute the third and lowest tier of government in the Arab Union.

Each municipality is administrated by an elected municipal government called a "council" (مجلس majlis; pl. مجالس majālis), and thus municipalities are often referred to informally as "council areas" (مناطق المجالس manāṭiq al-majālis; sg. منطقة المجلس minṭaqat al-majlis). Councils can take one of two forms of municipal government: mayor–council governments (the more common form, accounting for over two thirds of councils) consist of an elected mayor, who appoints a council to act as his cabinet and administration; council–manager governments instead consist of a council of 7 to 20 members, which acts as the legislative and top administrative body of the municipality, and appoints a professional manager to exercise the council's executive authority in day-to-day affairs.