Yanta
Yanta, is a village situated in Rashaya District, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon, 79 kilometres from Beirut. It is located close to the Syrian border north of Kfar Qouq.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Yanţā” and “Yanta, Lebanon”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bakka and Sultan Yacoub.
Bakka
Village
Bakka, Bekka or Beka is a village and municipality situated 85 kilometres east of Beirut in the Rashaya District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. The population of the village is Sunni.
Sultan Yacoub
Village
Photo: Mjbigherd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sultan Yacoub is a Lebanese village in the West Beqaa District, about seven kilometers from the border with Syria. Sultan Yacoub is situated 9 km northwest of Yanta.
Kfar Qouq
Kfar Qouq is a village in Lebanon. The village is known as the site of ancient temple, rock carvings, and an ancient reservoir built by the Qaraoun culture, Phoenicians, the Romans, and other civilisations and cultures such as that have conquered the region and enjoyed the fertile soil of the Bekaa Valley.Yanta
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, municipality of Lebanon, and locality
- Location: Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.60413° or 33° 36′ 15″ northLongitude
35.9448° or 35° 56′ 41″ eastElevation
1,520 metres (4,987 feet)Open location code
8G5QJW3V+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 6505734015OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Persian—“Yanta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ينطا”
- Arabic: “ينطة”
- Dutch: “Yanta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ينطا”
- French: “Yanta”
- Hebrew: “ינטא”
- Irish: “Yanta”
- Italian: “Yanta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yanta i Libanon”
- Persian: “ینطا”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yanta”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 2.0.