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South Governorate

South Governorate is one of the governorates of Lebanon, with a population of 590,000 inhabitants and an area of 929.6 km2. The capital is . The lowest elevation is sea-level; the highest is 1,000 meters.
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  • Type: State with 500,000 residents
  • Description: one of the six governorates of Lebanon
  • Also known as: “Aj Jeanoub”, “al-Janub”, “Mohafazat ej Jnoub”, “Muḩāfaz̧at Lubnān al Janūbī”, and “South Lebanon”
  • Neighbors:

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tyre and Qana.

Photo: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the fourth-largest city in . It is particularly noteworthy for its stunning and clean beaches as well as some of the finest examples of Roman architecture in the world.

Village
Photo: feyrouz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also spelled Cana, Canna or Kana, is a municipality in located 10 kilometres southeast of the city of Tyre and 12 kilometres north of the border with , in an area historically known as .

Village
is a municipality located in , South Lebanon, north of .

South Governorate

Latitude
33.2856° or 33° 17′ 8″ north
Longitude
35.3038° or 35° 18′ 14″ east
Population
500,000
Elevation
190 metres (623 feet)
Open location code
8G5Q78P3+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13321742661
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
279894
Wiki­data ID
Q223643
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Satellite Map

Discover South Governorate from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“South Governorate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الجنوب|”
  • Arabic: “محافظة الجنوب”
  • Arabic: “محافظة لبنان الجنوبي”
  • Armenian: “Հարավային Լիբանան”
  • Armenian: “Հարավային մարզ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Cənub mühafəzəsi”
  • Basque: “Hegoaldeko eskualdea”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвы Лібан”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвы Ліван”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Паўднёвы Ліван”
  • Bulgarian: “Южен Ливан”
  • Catalan: “governació del Líban-Sud”
  • Catalan: “Governació del Líban-Sud”
  • Cebuano: “Mohafazat Liban-Sud”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای باشوور”
  • Chinese: “南部省”
  • Czech: “Jižní Libanon”
  • Dutch: “Gouvernement Zuid”
  • Dutch: “Zuid”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة الجنوب”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Gubernio”
  • Estonian: “Lõuna-Liibanoni kubernerkond”
  • Finnish: “Etelä-Libanonin hallintoalue”
  • French: “Gouvernorat du Liban-Sud”
  • French: “Liban-Sud”
  • Georgian: “სამხრეთის მუჰაფაზა”
  • German: “Gouvernement Süd-Libanon”
  • German: “Süd-Libanon”
  • Greek: “Κυβερνείο του Νότιου Λιβάνου”
  • Hebrew: “דרום לבנון”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז דרום לבנון”
  • Hindi: “दक्षिण प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Dél kormányzóság”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Selatan”
  • Italian: “governatorato del Sud Libano”
  • Italian: “Governatorato del Sud Libano”
  • Japanese: “南レバノン県”
  • Korean: “남부주”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidu muhāfaza”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietų Libano muchafaza”
  • Malay: “Kegabenoran Selatan”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Selatan”
  • Maltese: “Governorat tan-Nofsinhar”
  • Mazanderani: “جنوب استان”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sør guvernement”
  • Ossetian: “Хуссар Ливан”
  • Pampanga: “Mauling Governorate”
  • Persian: “استان جنوب”
  • Persian: “استان جنوبی لبنان”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Południowy”
  • Portuguese: “Líbano Meridional”
  • Romanian: “Guvernoratul Libanul de Sud”
  • Russian: “Южный Ливан о́бласть”
  • Russian: “Южный Ливан”
  • Scots: “Sooth Govrenorate”
  • Slovenian: “Južni guvernat”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Líbano Sur”
  • Spanish: “Libano-Sur”
  • Spanish: “Líbano-Sur”
  • Swedish: “Mohafazat Liban-Sud”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Ҷануб”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு ஆளுநரகம், லெபனான்”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு ஆளுநரகம்”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு கவர்னரேட்”
  • Tatar: “Көньяк Ливан”
  • Turkish: “Cenub ili”
  • Turkish: “Cenub”
  • Ukrainian: “Південний Ліван (провінція)”
  • Ukrainian: “Південний Ліван”
  • Urdu: “محافظہ جنوبی”
  • Uzbek: “Janubiy Livan muhofazasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Nam, Liban”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Nam”
  • Western Armenian: “Հարաւային Լիբանան”
  • Wu Chinese: “南部省（黎巴嫩）”
  • Wu Chinese: “南部省”

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