Deir al-Qamar (Arabic: دير القمر‎), meaning “Monastery of the Moon” is a village south-east of Beirut in south-central Lebanon. It is located five kilometers outside of Beiteddine in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate at 800 m of average altitude. During the 16th to 18th centuries, Deir al-Qamar was the capital and the residence of the Emirate of Mount Lebanon. It is also notable for…

Jezzine (Arabic: جزين‎ Jizzīn) is a town in Lebanon, located 22 km (14 mi) from Sidon and 40 km (25 mi) south of Beirut. It is the capital of Jezzine District. Surrounded by mountain peaks, pine forests (like the Bkassine Pine Forest), and at an average altitude of 950 m (3,117 ft), it is the main summer resort and tourist destination of South Lebanon. The town is also well-known in Lebanon…

Chouf (also spelled Shouf, Shuf or Chuf, in Arabic: جبل الشوف‎ Jabal ash-Shouf) is a historic region of Lebanon, as well as an administrative district in the governorate (muhafazat) of Mount Lebanon. Located south-east of Beirut, the region comprises a narrow coastal strip notable for the Christian town of Damour, and the valleys and mountains of the western slopes of Jabal Barouk, the name of the local Mount…

Akkar District (Arabic: قضاء عكار‎) is the only district in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. It is coextensive with the governorate and covers an area of 788 km2(304 sq mi). The UNHCR estimated the population of the district to be 389,899 in 2015, including 106,935 registered refugees of the Syrian Civil War and 19,404 Palestinian refugees.[ The capital is at Halba. The district is characterized by the presence of a relatively…

Zahlé (Arabic: زحلة‎, Syriac-Aramaic: ܙܗܠܥ) is the capital and the largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. With around 120,000 inhabitants, it is the third largest city in Lebanon after Beirut and Tripoli,[ and the fourth largest taking the whole urban area (the Jounieh urban area is larger). Zahlé is located 55 km (34 mi) east of the capital Beirut, close to the Beirut-Damascus road, and lies at the…

Baalbek ,also known as the city of the sun,properly Baʿalbek(Arabic: بعلبك‎, translit.Ba’labakk, Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) and also known as Balbec,Baalbec or Baalbeck, is a city between the Eastern Mountain Ranges of Lebanon and the Western Mountain ranges of Lebanon. Located East of the Litani River in Lebanon‘s Beqaa Valley, about 85 km (53 mi) northeast of Beirut. The capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Baalbek has a population of approximately 82,608,[citation needed]mostly Shia Muslims, followed by Sunni Muslims and…

Tyre (Arabic: صور‎ Ṣūr; Phoenician: 𐤑𐤓‬ Ṣūr; Syriac-Aramaic: ܣܘܪ, Hebrew: צוֹר‬ Tzór; Greek: Τύρος Týros; Latin: Tyrus; Armenian: Տիր Tir; French: Tyr), sometimes romanized as Sour, is a district capital in the South Governorate of Lebanon. There were approximately 117,000 inhabitants in 2003.[ However, the government of Lebanon has released only rough estimates of population numbers since 1932, so an accurate statistical accounting is not possible. Tyre juts out from the coast of the Mediterranean and is located about 80 km (50 mi) south of Beirut….

Sidon, known locally as Sayda (Arabic: صيدا‎), is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterraneancoast, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Tyre and 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital, Beirut. In the Book of Genesis, Sidon was the first-born son of Canaan, who was a son of Ham, thereby making Sidon a great grandson of Noah.

Beirut (Arabic: بيروت‎, Bayrūt, pronunciation ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. No recent population census has been conducted, but 2007 estimates ranged from slightly more than 1 million to 2.2 million as part of Greater Beirut.[ Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon’s Mediterraneancoast, Beirut is the country’s largest and main seaport. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, having been…

Tripoli (Arabic: طرابلس‎ / ALA-LC: Ṭarābulus;[ Lebanese Arabic: Ṭrāblos;[2] Turkish: Trablusşam) is the largest city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. Situated 85 kilometers (53 miles) north of the capital Beirut, it is the capital of the North Governorate and the Tripoli District. Tripoli overlooks the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and it is the northernmost seaport in Lebanon. It holds a string of four small islands offshore, and they are also…