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.
- Type: State with 750,000 residents
- Description: governorate of Lebanon
- Also known as: “Beqaa”, “Béqaa”, “Beqaa Gouvernement”, “Beqaa Governorate”, “Bikâ‘ ili”, “Gobernacion de Beca”, “Gobernacion de Bekaa”, “Gobernación de Bekaa”, “Gobernatura de Beca”, “Gobernatura de Bekaa”, “Gouvernement Beqaa”, “Governació de la Beqaa”, “Governatorato della Bekaa”, “Gubernatorstwo Al-Bika”, “Gubernatorstwo Bekaa”, “Kegubernuran Beqaa”, “LB-BI”, “Mohafazat Beqaa”, “Muḩāfaz̧at al Biqā‘”, “البقاع (محافظة)”, “பெக்கா கவர்னரேட்”, and “ベカーア県”
- Neighbors: Mount Lebanon
Places of Interest
Highlights: Dakoue Roman temple.
Dakoue Roman temple
Archaeological site
Dakoue is a village located 3 kilometres southwest of Mejdel Anjar, Lebanon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Joub Jannine and Sultan Yacoub.
Bekaa
- Categories: governorate of Lebanon and locality
- Location: Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.6604° or 33° 39′ 38″ north
Longitude
35.8425° or 35° 50′ 33″ east
Population
750,000
Elevation
870 metres (2,854 feet)
Open location code
8G5QMR6V+52
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Bekaa” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቤቃዓ”
- 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”
- Cebuano: “Mohafazat Béqaa”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای بیقاع”
- Chinese: “貝卡省”
- Chinese: “贝卡省”
- Czech: “Bikáa”
- Dutch: “Beka”
- 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”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Μπεκάα”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο της Μπεκάα”
- Hausa: “Beqaa”
- Hebrew: “אל-בקאע”
- Hindi: “बेक़आ प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Bekaa kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Bekaa”
- Italian: “governatorato della Beqa‘”
- Italian: “Governatorato della Beqā”
- 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: “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: “Gobernación de Becá”
- Swahili: “Beqaa”
- Swedish: “Bekaa”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Biqo‘”
- Tajik: “Бекаа”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Биқоъ”
- Tamil: “பிக்கா ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “பெக்கா ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tatar: “Бекаа мухафазасы”
- Tatar: “Бекаа”
- 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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Places to explore: Ghazza and Mansoura.
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