Shin ( Shîn) is a town in western 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, Mizyeneh 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. The inhabitants of the town are predominantly Sunnis and Alawites. Although many had converted to the heterodox Alawite sect of Sulayman al-Murshid (known as Murshidians) during the French Mandate period (1920âÂÂ46), the population readopted the orthodox Alawite faith since then.
The name Shin is possibly coming from 2 sources Syriac language and it means the moon, and Aramaic language and it means peace
The town has been built above an Arameans Khirbat (Town), and there are . The majority of population used to work in agriculture, planting Olives, Wheat, Figs and Apples,