Ras el-Matn
Ras el-Matn, also spelled as Ras el-Metn or Ra's al-Matn, is a Lebanese town and municipality in the Baabda District of Mount Lebanon Governorate stretching over 1,300 hectares. The town has a population of nearly 11,000 inhabitants who are Druze.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bassem19, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Ra’s al Matn”, “Ras Al Matn”, “Rās al Matn”, “Ras el Matn”, “Ras El Matn”, and “Râs el Metn”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abadiyeh and Baalchmay.
Abadiyeh
Village
Abadiyeh is a municipality in the Baabda District of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 16 kilometers east of Beirut. There is one main public highschool in the town, which had more than 500 pupils in 2019. Abadiyeh is situated 4 km west of Ras el-Matn.
Baalchmay
Village
Photo: Sinnoissam, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baalchmay is a village, which is situated 4 km southwest of Ras el-Matn.
Salima
Village
Salima is a municipality in the Baabda District of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. There is one public school in the village with 130 students as of 2006. Salima is situated 4 km northeast of Ras el-Matn.
Ras el-Matn
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.84886° or 33° 50′ 56″ northLongitude
35.66159° or 35° 39′ 42″ eastElevation
936 metres (3,071 feet)Open location code
8G5QRMX6+GJOpenStreetMap ID
node 5714246403OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Ras el-Matn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رأس المتن”
- Arabic: “راس المتن”
- Dutch: “Ras el Matn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “راس المتن”
- French: “Ras Al Matn”
- French: “Ras el Matn”
- French: “Ras el Metn”
- German: “Ras Al-Matn”
- Hebrew: “ראס אל מתן”
- Italian: “Ras el Metn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ras el Matn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ras el Matn”
- Norwegian: “Ras el Matn”
- Pampanga: “Ras el Matn”
- Persian: “رأس المتن”
- Urdu: “راس المتن”
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