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 Sidon. The lowest elevation is sea-level; the highest is 1,000 meters.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: governorate of Lebanon with 500,000 residents
- Description: one of the six governorates of Lebanon
- Also known as: “Aj Jeanoub”, “al-Janub”, “Mohafazat ej Jnoub”, and “Muḩāfaz̧at Lubnān al Janūbī”
- Neighbors: Mount Lebanon
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sarepta and Aadloun.
Sarepta
Village
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Sarepta was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as Zarephath. It became a bishopric, which faded, and remains a double Catholic titular see. Sarepta is situated 5 km northwest of South Governorate.
Aadloun
Town
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Aadloun, Adloun or Adlun is a coastal municipality in South Lebanon, 17 kilometres south of Sidon famous for its cultivation of watermelons. It is also the site of a Phoenician necropolis and prehistoric caves where four archaeological sites have been discovered and dated to the Stone Age. Aadloun is situated 6 km west of South Governorate.
Ansariyah, Lebanon
Village
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Ansariyah, Ansariyeh, or Insariye is a municipality in South Governorate in Lebanon, 62 km from Beirut and 20 km south of Sidon. The area is 7.35 km² and is situated near the sea facing it from an altitude of 144 m. Ansariyah, Lebanon is situated 5 km west of South Governorate.
South Governorate
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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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”
- 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”
- 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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