Sawfar
Ru’ Aysat Sawfar or Sawfar, Sawfar, Saoufar or Sofar) is a village in the Aley District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon. Perched at an elevation of more than 1,433 metres, Sawfar lies adjacent to the main road that connects Beirut to Damascus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Saoufar”, “Şawfar”, and “Sofar”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mudeirej Bridge.
Mudeirej Bridge
Bridge
The Mudeirej Bridge or Mdairej Bridge is a bridge in Lebanon. It was completed in 1998 as the tallest and highest bridge in Lebanon and the Middle East but this has since been surpassed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ain Dara and Bhamdoun.
Ain Dara
Village
Ain Dara, is a village about 30 kilometres from Beirut, in the governorate of Mount Lebanon, in the Aley District. Ain Dara Municipality has an area of 2,586 hectares, with a population of approximately 8000 persons. Ain Dara is situated 3 km southeast of Sawfar.
Bhamdoun
Town
Photo: marviikad, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bhamdoun, is a town in Lebanon 23 km from Beirut on the main road that leads to Damascus and in the suburbs of the main tourist city of Aley, lying at an altitude of 1,150 m above the Lamartine valley. Bhamdoun is situated 4 km west of Sawfar.
Hammana
Town
Photo: P-mous, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hammana is a town in Lebanon, about 26 km east of Beirut. At an altitude of 1200 m above sea level, Hammana is in the Mount Lebanon Governorate in the district of Baabda. Hammana is situated 4 km northeast of Sawfar.
Sawfar
- Categories: human settlement, municipality of Lebanon, and locality
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.80206° or 33° 48′ 7″ northLongitude
35.70122° or 35° 42′ 4″ eastElevation
1,282 metres (4,206 feet)Open location code
8G5QRP22+RFOpenStreetMap ID
node 5348933838OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
Discover Sawfar from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Polish—“Sawfar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صوفر”
- Dutch: “Saoufar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صوفر”
- French: “Sawfar”
- Greek: “Σαουφάρ”
- Hebrew: “סאופר”
- Irish: “Saoufar”
- Italian: “Saoufar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saoufar”
- Persian: “صوفر”
- Polish: “Saoufar”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Soufar Hotel and Ain Soufar station.
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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 “Sawfar”. Photo: marviikad, CC BY-SA 2.0.