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Baakleen

Baakleen, also spelled Baaqlîne or Baakline, is a prominent Druze city located in the of , about 45 kilometers southeast of , Lebanon.
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  • Type: Village with 17,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Lebanon
  • Also known as: “B‘aqleen”, “B‘aqlīn”, “Ba‘aqlīn”, “Baakline”, and “Baaqline”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saydet El Talle.

Church
The Church of Saidet et Tallé, sometimes spelled and translated as Our Lady of the Hill, is a Maronite church in Deir el Qamar in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ainbal and Deir el Qamar.

Village
is a village and municipality in the of the in . It is located 50 kilometers southeast of .

Photo: Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Deir al-Qamar is a city south-east of in south-central . It is located five kilometres outside of in the of the at 800 m of average altitude.

Village
Photo: Peripitus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Btaddine is a small town and the administrative capital of the in the in . The town is located 45 kilometers southeast of , and near the town of Deir el-Qamar from which it is separated by a steep valley. is situated 2½ km northeast of Baakleen.

Baakleen

Latitude
33.67739° or 33° 40′ 39″ north
Longitude
35.56355° or 35° 33′ 49″ east
Population
17,000
Elevation
885 metres (2,904 feet)
United Nations Location Code
LB BKL
Open location code
8G5QMHG7+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5944653452
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
277021
Wiki­data ID
Q2877638
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Baakleen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بعقلين”
  • Cebuano: “Baaqlîne”
  • Croatian: “Baaklin”
  • Dutch: “Baakleen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بعقلين”
  • French: “Baakline”
  • French: “Baaqline”
  • German: “Baakleen”
  • German: “Baaklin”
  • German: “Baakline”
  • German: “Baaqline”
  • Hebrew: “בעקלין”
  • Irish: “Baakleen”
  • Italian: “Baakline”
  • Japanese: “バクライン”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baakleen”
  • Persian: “بعقلين”
  • Persian: “بعقلین”
  • Polish: “Baklin”
  • Russian: “Бааклин”
  • Russian: “Баклин”
  • Slovenian: “Baklin”
  • Spanish: “Baakline”
  • Swedish: “Baaqlîne”
  • Turkish: “Baaklin”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Byt Baakline and CashUnited.

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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 “Baakleen”. Photo: Patrice Bon, CC0.