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For our Geo Quiz today — there’s no circus big top, no elephants, not even any high flying trapeze artists. But there is a circus show.

One performed by a small group of refugee children in the Syrian city we’re looking for today. The city’s no stranger to refugees. One million Iraqi refugees from the Iraq war and an estimated half-million Palestinians live in Syria.

Many of them have settled in and around one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The refugee circus show is the creation of the UN and the Danish government:

“Well actually the idea came from the Danish circus school who’ve been doing something like this in the Palestinian territories and they’ve been working Palestinian kids there and it was a great success and then they came up with the idea that it would be nice to do something like this in syria but with Iraqi refugee kids.”

So we’ll pay a visit to the circus…

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Some refugee children in Syria had the unusual opportunity this weekend to perform in a circus.

The BBC’s Lina Sinjab was on hand…Lina you managed to squeeze in under the big tent….

“Where did this take place…and where do these refugee children come from?”

The BBC’s Lina Sinjab with her eye on an unusual circus for Iraqi, Palestinian and Syrian refugee children in Damascus, the answer to our Geo Quiz.