Bhamdoun
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,000 residents
- Description: town in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Bhamdoûn”, “Bhamdoun el Mhatta”, and “Bḩamdūn al Maḩaţţah”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Baalchmay and Sawfar.
Sawfar
Village
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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. Sawfar is situated 4 km east of Bhamdoun.
Ras el-Matn
Village
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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. Ras el-Matn is situated 5 km north of Bhamdoun.
Bhamdoun
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.80307° or 33° 48′ 11″ northLongitude
35.65945° or 35° 39′ 34″ eastPopulation
5,000Elevation
1,100 metres (3,609 feet)Open location code
8G5QRM35+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 6125607812OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
276632Wikidata ID
Q2900650
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Bhamdoun” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحمدون”
- Catalan: “Bhamdoun”
- Cebuano: “Bhamdoûn el Mhatta”
- Dutch: “Bhamdoun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحمدون”
- French: “Bhamdoun”
- German: “Bhamdoun”
- Hebrew: “בחמדון”
- Irish: “Bhamdoun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bhamdoun”
- Persian: “بحمدون”
- Polish: “Bahamdun”
- Swedish: “Bhamdoûn el Mhatta”
- Ukrainian: “Багамдун”
- Urdu: “بحمدون”
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