Chtaura
Chtaura is a town in Lebanon in the fertile Beqaa valley located between the Mount Lebanon and Syria. It is located halfway on the Beirut–Damascus highway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,370 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Chtoura”, “Shtawrah”, and “Shtūrah”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taalabaya and Saadnayel.
Taalabaya
Village
Taalabaya, is a village located in the Zahlé District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon.
Saadnayel
Town
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saadnayel is a town in the Bekaa Valley in the Zahlé District of Lebanon. It has a population of around 20,000 Lebanese, mostly Sunni Muslims. Saadnayel lies 47 kilometres from Beirut. Saadnayel is situated 2½ km east of Chtaura.
Qabb Ilyas
Town
Photo: Rasvegas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qabb Ilyas also spelled Kab Elias, Qab Elias, Qob Elias, Qoub Elias) is a municipality in Zahle District, in eastern Lebanon. Qabb Ilyas is 15 kilometers from Zahleh and 45 kilometers from the Lebanese capital Beirut. Qabb Ilyas is situated 3 km southwest of Chtaura.
Chtaura
- Categories: human settlement, municipality of Lebanon, and locality
- Location: Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.81203° or 33° 48′ 43″ northLongitude
35.85534° or 35° 51′ 19″ eastPopulation
1,370Elevation
910 metres (2,986 feet)Open location code
8G5QRV64+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 5018242049OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
267297Wikidata ID
Q1153466
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Chtaura” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شتورا”
- Arabic: “شتورة”
- Armenian: “Շտաուրա”
- Bulgarian: “Чтаура”
- Cebuano: “Chtaura”
- Dutch: “Chtaura”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شتوره”
- French: “Chtaura”
- French: “Chtoura”
- German: “Chtoura”
- Hebrew: “שטורה”
- Hebrew: “שתורא”
- Irish: “Chtaura”
- Italian: “Chtaura”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chtaura”
- Persian: “شتوره”
- Spanish: “Chtaura”
- Swedish: “Chtaura”
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