Shiyyah
Shiyyah or Chiyah is a suburb located south of the Lebanese capital of Beirut and is part of Greater Beirut.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Ash Shiyāḩ”, “Ash Shīyāḩ”, “Chiah”, “Chiayah”, “Chiya”, “Chiyah”, “Chyah”, and “Ech Chîyâh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Museum of Beirut and Horsh Beirut.
National Museum of Beirut
Museum
Photo: Elie plus, Public domain.
The National Museum of Beirut is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942.
Horsh Beirut
Park
Horsh Beirut is an urban park in the heart of the capital of Lebanon, Beirut. The urban park is also known as Horsh El Snaubar. The park covers about 0.3 square kilometres of green space within municipal Beirut.
Embassy of the France
Embassy
The French Embassy, Beirut is the chief diplomatic mission of France in Lebanon. Its ambassador has been Anne Grillo since 2020.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jnah and Haret Hreik.
Jnah
Jnah is in Beirut. The Jnah is one of the luxurious residential districts of the Capital. Its name literally means "wing" due to its location along the southern border of Beirut, extending eastward from the sea to the reconstructed Sport City inland.Haret Hreik
Village
Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Haret Hreik is a mixed Shia and Maronite Christian municipality, in the Dahieh suburbs, south of Beirut, Lebanon. It is part of the Baabda District. Once an agricultural and Christian village, Haret Hreik lost its rural and Christian identity due to the wave of Shia Muslim refugees from Southern Lebanon who settled in the town and made it another urban neighborhood of Dahieh.
Beirut
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beirut is the capital city of Lebanon with a population of approximately 2.1 million people in its metropolitan area. The city is on a relatively small headland jutting into the east Mediterranean.
Shiyyah
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.86521° or 33° 51′ 55″ northLongitude
35.51798° or 35° 31′ 5″ eastElevation
45 metres (148 feet)Open location code
8G5QVG89+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 5421813516OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Shiyyah” goes by many names.
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