Bekaa
Beqaa Governorate is a governorate in Lebanon and one of the eight districts of the country. It is located in the eastern part of Lebanon and borders Syria. The capital of the district is the city of Zahlé.Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: State with 750,000 residents
- Description: governorate of Lebanon
- Also known as: “Beqaa”, “Béqaa”, “Beqaa Governorate”, “Mohafazat Beqaa”, and “Muḩāfaz̧at al Biqā‘”
- Neighbors: Mount Lebanon
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dakoue Roman temple.
Dakoue Roman temple
Archaeological site
Dakoue is a village located 3 kilometres southwest of Mejdel Anjar, Lebanon. It is predominantly inhabited by shepherds and farmers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Joub Jannine and Sultan Yacoub.
Joub Jannine
Town
Photo: Emma.hans, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Joub Jannine is a city located in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. Joub Jannine serves as the capital of West Beqaa and it is the center of the Western Beqaa District, hosting the Serail, which is a main governmental building serving the entire area.
Sultan Yacoub
Village
Photo: Mjbigherd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sultan Yacoub is a Lebanese village in the West Beqaa District, about seven kilometers from the border with Syria.
Sawiri
Village
Sawiri or Souiri or Sawairy or es-Sawiri Arabic: الصويرة is a town in the eastern part of Lebanon. Mayor is Mohamed Hamze Smiley Arabic: الرئيس محمد حمزه الصميلي Vice Mayor Mahmoud Mohammed Janbien Arabic: الرئيس محمود محمد جانبين Sawiri is located in the West Bekaa District near the Syrian border, in the governorate of Beqaa in the foothills of the eastern mountains.
Bekaa
- Categories: governorate of Lebanon and locality
- Location: Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.6604° or 33° 39′ 38″ northLongitude
35.8425° or 35° 50′ 33″ eastPopulation
750,000Elevation
870 metres (2,854 feet)Open location code
8G5QMR6V+52OpenStreetMap ID
node 13321742662OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
280282Wikidata ID
Q319632
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Bekaa” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቤቃዓ”
- Arabic: “البقاع (محافظة)”
- Arabic: “بقاع”
- Arabic: “محافظة البقاع”
- Armenian: “Բեկաայի մարզ”
- Azerbaijani: “Bekaa”
- Azerbaijani: “Biqa mühafəzəsi”
- Basque: “Bekaa eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Бекаа”
- Belarusian: “Бэкаа”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Бекаа”
- Bengali: “বেকাআ”
- Bulgarian: “Бекаа”
- Catalan: “Governació de la Bekaa”
- Catalan: “Governació de la Beqaa”
- Cebuano: “Mohafazat Béqaa”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای بیقاع”
- Chinese: “貝卡省”
- Chinese: “贝卡省”
- Czech: “Bikáa”
- Dutch: “Beka”
- Dutch: “Beqaa Gouvernement”
- Dutch: “Gouvernement Beqaa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة البقاع”
- Estonian: “Bekaa kubernerkond”
- Finnish: “Bekaan laakson hallintoalue”
- French: “Bekaa”
- French: “Gouvernorat de la Bekaa”
- Galician: “Gobernación de Al-Biqa”
- Georgian: “ბექაას მუჰაფაზა”
- German: “Bekaa-Ebene”
- German: “Bekaa”
- German: “Gouvernement Bekaa”
- German: “LB-BI”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Μπεκάα”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο της Μπεκάα”
- Hausa: “Beqaa”
- Hebrew: “אל-בקאע”
- Hindi: “बेक़आ प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Bekaa kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Bekaa”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Beqaa”
- Italian: “Governatorato della Bekaa”
- Italian: “governatorato della Beqa‘”
- Italian: “Governatorato della Beqā”
- Japanese: “ベカーア県”
- Japanese: “ベカア”
- Japanese: “ベッカー県”
- Javanese: “Beqaa”
- Kazakh: “Беқаа”
- Kirghiz: “Бекаа”
- Korean: “베카주”
- Latvian: “Bekaas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Bekos muchafaza”
- Malay: “Bekaa”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Beqaa”
- Maltese: “Governorat ta‘ Beqaa”
- Mazanderani: “بقاع استان”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Guvernementet Bekaa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beqaa guvernement”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guvernementet Beqaa”
- Norwegian: “Bekaa”
- Oromo: “Beqaa”
- Pampanga: “Beqaa Governorate”
- Panjabi: “ਬੇਕਾਆ”
- Persian: “استان بقاع”
- Persian: “بقاع”
- Polish: “Bekaa”
- Polish: “Gubernatorstwo Al-Bika”
- Polish: “Gubernatorstwo Bekaa”
- Polish: “Muhafaza Bekaa”
- Portuguese: “Beca”
- Portuguese: “Bekaa”
- Portuguese: “Beqaa”
- Pushto: “بقاع”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Beqaa”
- Russian: “Бекаа о́бласть”
- Russian: “Бекаа”
- Scots: “Beqaa Govrenorate”
- Slovenian: “Beka”
- Somali: “Beqaa”
- Spanish: “Bekaa”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Beca”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Becá”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Bekaa”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Bekaa”
- Spanish: “Gobernatura de Beca”
- Spanish: “Gobernatura de Bekaa”
- Swahili: “Beqaa”
- Swedish: “Guvernementet Bekaa”
- Swedish: “Mohafazat Béqaa”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Biqo‘”
- Tajik: “Бекаа”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Биқоъ”
- Tamil: “பிக்கா ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “பெக்கா ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “பெக்கா கவர்னரேட்”
- Tatar: “Бекаа мухафазасы”
- Tatar: “Бекаа”
- Turkish: “Bikâ ili”
- Turkish: “Bikâ‘ ili”
- Turkish: “Bikâ”
- Ukrainian: “Бекаа”
- Urdu: “محافظہ بقاع”
- Uzbek: “Bekaa”
- Vietnamese: “Beqaa”
- Western Armenian: “Պեքաա”
- Western Armenian: “Պեքաայի Մարզ”
- Wu Chinese: “贝卡省”
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