Jwaya
Jwaya, or Jouaiya, is a municipality in Tyre District, South Governorate, Lebanon. It is located in the center of Jabal Amil, 95 kilometres from the capital Beirut, 54 kilometres from Sidon, and 16 kilometres from Tyre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: town in South Governorate, Lebanon
- Also known as: “Jouaiya”, “Jouaïya”, “Joya”, “Juwayyā”, “Jwaiya”, “JWAYA”, “Jwayya”, and “Jwayyā”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Debaal and Mahrouna.
Debaal
Village
Debaal or Deb’aal is a municipality located at the Tyre District, in the South Governorate, Lebanon. It is located north of Jwaya and south of Baflay, 22 km east of Tyre.
Mahrouna
Village
Photo: Nehme1499, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mahrouna is a municipality in the Tyre District of the South Governorate in southern Lebanon. Located approximately 100 km south of Beirut and 18 km southeast of Tyre, the town sits at an elevation of 400 m above sea level.
Mjadel
Village
Al-Majadel is a municipality located in the Tyre district, which belongs to the South Lebanon governorate, one of the eight governorates of Lebanon.
Jwaya
- Categories: city, village/town/city in Lebanon, human settlement, and locality
- Location: South Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.23768° or 33° 14′ 16″ northLongitude
35.33781° or 35° 20′ 16″ eastElevation
288 metres (945 feet)Open location code
8G5Q68QQ+34OpenStreetMap ID
node 6313939091OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Jwaya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جويا”
- Arabic: “جويّا”
- Arabic: “جويّة”
- Asturian: “Jwaya”
- Chinese: “朱瓦亚”
- Dutch: “Jwaiya”
- Dutch: “Jwaya”
- French: “Jouaiya”
- French: “Jwaya”
- German: “Jouaiya”
- German: “Jwaiya”
- Hebrew: “ג’וויא”
- Irish: “Jwaiya”
- Italian: “Jwaya”
- Mazanderani: “جویا”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jwaiya”
- Persian: “جویا، لبنان”
- Persian: “جویا”
- Russian: “Джувай”
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