Bakka
Bakka, Bekka or Beka is a village and municipality situated 85 kilometres east of Beirut in the Rashaya District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. The population of the village is Sunni.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon
- Also known as: “Bakkā”, “Bakka, Lebanon”, and “Bakkah”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yanta and Kherbet Rouha.
Yanta
Village
Yanta, is a village situated in Rashaya District, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon, 79 kilometres from Beirut. It is located close to the Syrian border north of Kfar Qouq.
Kherbet Rouha
Village
Photo: KRkade, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kherbet Rouha is a town in the Rashaya District of Lebanon. It lies in the Bekaa Valley, about 10 kilometres northwest of Mount Hermon. The town is known for having the largest mosque towers in Lebanon. Kherbet Rouha is situated 7 km west of Bakka.
Kfar Qouq
Kfar Qouq is a village in Lebanon. The village is known as the site of ancient temple, rock carvings, and an ancient reservoir built by the Qaraoun culture, Phoenicians, the Romans, and other civilisations and cultures such as that have conquered the region and enjoyed the fertile soil of the Bekaa Valley.Bakka
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, village/town/city in Lebanon, municipality of Lebanon, and locality
- Location: Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.59254° or 33° 35′ 33″ northLongitude
35.92463° or 35° 55′ 29″ eastElevation
1,461 metres (4,793 feet)Open location code
8G5QHWVF+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 6221846168OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Persian—“Bakka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بكا”
- Arabic: “بكه”
- Dutch: “Bakka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بكا”
- French: “Bakka”
- Hebrew: “בכא (לבנון)”
- Hebrew: “בכא”
- Irish: “Bakka”
- Italian: “Bakka”
- Japanese: “バッカ (レバノン)”
- Japanese: “バッカ”
- Persian: “بکا، لبنان”
- Persian: “بکا”
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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 “Bakka”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 2.0.