{"id":28727,"date":"2025-10-27T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28727"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:05:53","slug":"latakia-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/latakia-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Latakia Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Latakia Port:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It isthe principal port of <strong>Syria.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is located in the Eastern part of the <strong>Mediterranean coast.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This port exports bitumen and asphalt, cereals, cotton, fruit, eggs, vegetable oil, pottery, and tobacco.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It consists of an extensive agricultural hinterland producing abundant crops of tobacco, cotton, cereal grains, and fruits.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other industries:<\/strong> Cotton ginning, vegetable oil processing, tanning, and sponge fishing are local industries present in this port city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about the Mediterranean Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>intercontinental sea<\/strong> that is bordered by the continent of Europe in the north, by Asia in the east, and by Africa in the south.<\/li>\n<li>In the west, the Mediterranean Sea is connected to the <strong>Atlantic Ocean<\/strong> via the narrow <strong>Strait of Gibraltar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the extreme northeast, it is connected to the Black Sea via the Dardanelles Strait, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus Strait.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mediterranean-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mediterranean Sea<\/a> is also connected to the Red Sea via the Suez Canal in the southeast.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bordering Countries:<\/strong> 22 countries and one territory (Gibraltar &#8211; a British Overseas Territory) have coasts on the Mediterranean Sea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers:<\/strong> Ebro, Rhone, Po, Nile, Tiber, etc drain into this sea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Islands: Corsica,<\/strong> Crete, Cyprus, Chios, Euboea, Lesbos, Mallorca, Rhodes,<strong> Sicily, and Sardinia <\/strong>are present in this sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Port of Call?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an intermediate stop for a ship on its scheduled journey for cargo operation or transporting supplies or fuel. It is a port where a ship stops except its home port.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/world-news\/israels-military-strikes-in-syria-a-response-to-strategic-threats\/3690324\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel\u2019s military strikes in Syria: A response to strategic threats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latakia Port  is located in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}