Shin, Syria

Shin شين
Town
Shin Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°47′0″N 36°26′0″E / 34.78333°N 36.43333°E / 34.78333; 36.43333
Country	Syria
Governorate	Homs Governorate
District	Homs District
Nahiyah	Shin
Elevation	800 m (2,600 ft)
Population (2004)
• Total	13,020

Shin (Arabic: شين‎‎ Shîn) is a town in northwestern Syria administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located west of Homs. Nearby localities include Rabah to the north, al-Mahfurah to the northeast, Tarin to the east, Suwayri to the southeast, Hadidah to the south, al-Mazinah and al-Huwash to the southwest and Muqlus to the northwest.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Shin had a population of 13,020 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the Shin nahiyah ("subdistrict") which consists of 22 localities with a collective population of 27,951 in 2004.^[1] The inhabitants of the town are predominantly Alawites. Although many had converted to the heterodox Alawite sect of Sulayman al-Murshid (known as Murshidians) during the French Mandate period (1920-46), the population readopted the orthodox Alawite faith since then.^[2]

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