Bikfaya
Bikfaya is a town in the Matn District region of Mount Lebanon. Its stone houses with red-tiled roofs resting amidst pine and oak forests make Bikfaya one of the most sought-after suburbs of Beirut and one of Lebanon's most popular summer resorts.
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Beckfayya”, “Bekfaya”, “Bekfeya”, “Bickfaya”, “Bikfa”, “Bikfaiya”, “Bikfayia”, “Bikfayyā”, and “Bikfeiya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Michael Church and Hospital Bhannes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bhersaf and Duwar.
Bhersaf
Village
Bhersaf is a Lebanese village located in the Matn District in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon. SOS Children's Villages is present in the village since 1969.
Duwar
Village
Douar or Ed-Douar is small, mainly Maronite, village located in the Metn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. Douar means "round about". Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Catholic.
Dhour El Choueir
Town
Dhour El Choueir, sometimes Dhour Shweir, is a mountain town in Lebanon located in the Matn District. It lies slightly north of the main Beirut - Damascus highway, overlooking the city of Beirut and the Mediterranean sea, some 30 km from Beirut and 42 km from Beirut International Airport in Khalde. Dhour El Choueir is situated 3 km southeast of Bikfaya.
Bikfaya
- Categories: village/town/city in Lebanon and locality
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.92217° or 33° 55′ 20″ north
Longitude
35.68435° or 35° 41′ 4″ east
Elevation
917 metres (3,009 feet)
United Nations Location Code
LB BIK
Open location code
8G5QWMCM+VP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Bikfaya from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Bikfaya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بكفيا”
- Arabic: “بكفيّا”
- Armenian: “Բիքֆայա”
- Azerbaijani: “Bikfəyya”
- Catalan: “Bikfaya”
- Cebuano: “Bikfaïya”
- Chinese: “比克法亚”
- Danish: “Bikfaya”
- Dutch: “Bikfaya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بكفيا”
- French: “Bikfaya”
- German: “Bikfaya”
- Hebrew: “בכפיא”
- Indonesian: “Bikfaya”
- Irish: “Bikfaya”
- Italian: “Bikfaya - Mhaydseh”
- Japanese: “ビクファヤー”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bikfaya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bikfaya”
- Norwegian: “Bikfaya”
- Pampanga: “Bikfaya”
- Persian: “بكفيا”
- Persian: “بکفیا”
- Polish: “Bikfaja”
- Polish: “Bikfajja”
- Portuguese: “Bikfaya”
- Russian: “Бикфайя”
- Swedish: “Bikfaïya”
- Ukrainian: “Бікфая”
- Urdu: “بکفیا”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Sāqiyyat al-Misk and Mar Boutros Karm Et Tine.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bikfaya Police Station and وزارة الشؤون الاجتماعية بكفيا.
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