Aley
Aley is a major city in Lebanon. It is the capital of the Aley District and fourth largest city in Lebanon. The city is located on Mount Lebanon, 15km uphill from Beirut on the freeway to Damascus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 130,000 residents
- Description: town in Lebanon
- Also known as: “‘Ālayh”, “‘Āleih”, “‘Āliyah”, “Alia”, “Aliye”, and “Alley”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Silk Museum.
Silk Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bsous Silk Museum is a silk museum in the town of Bsous near Wadi Chahrour in Lebanon, located around 15 kilometres east of Beirut.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bhamdoun and Bdadoun.
Bhamdoun
Town
Photo: marviikad, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bhamdoun, is a town in Lebanon 23 km from Beirut on the main road that leads to Damascus and in the suburbs of the main tourist city of Aley, lying at an altitude of 1,150 m above the Lamartine valley.
Bdadoun
Village
Bdadoun, is a town in Mount Lebanon which makes up one of the 70 towns and villages in the Lebanese district of Aley. It has an estimated population of 3,000.
Abadiyeh
Village
Abadiyeh is a municipality in the Baabda District of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 16 kilometers east of Beirut. There is one main public highschool in the town, which had more than 500 pupils in 2019.
Aley
- Category: locality
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.8083° or 33° 48′ 30″ northLongitude
35.6061° or 35° 36′ 22″ eastPopulation
130,000Elevation
878 metres (2,881 feet)United Nations Location Code
LB ALEOpen location code
8G5QRJ54+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 5046640267OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Veps—“Aley” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عالية”
- Arabic: “عاليه”
- Armenian: “Ալեյ”
- Asturian: “Aley”
- Basque: “Aley”
- Catalan: “Aley”
- Cebuano: “Aaley”
- Chinese: “阿莱”
- Croatian: “Aley”
- Dutch: “Aley”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عاليه”
- Finnish: “Alay”
- French: “Aley”
- German: “Alayh”
- German: “Aley”
- Greek: “Αλέι”
- Hebrew: “עאליי”
- Italian: “Aley”
- Japanese: “アレイ”
- Lithuanian: “Alejus”
- Mazanderani: “عالیه”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aley”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aley”
- Persian: “عالیه لبنان”
- Persian: “عالیه”
- Polish: “Alajh”
- Polish: “Aley”
- Romanian: “Aley”
- Russian: “Алайх”
- Russian: “Алей”
- Serbian: “Алеј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alayh”
- Slovenian: “Alej”
- Spanish: “Aley”
- Swedish: “Aaley”
- Turkish: “Aley”
- Ukrainian: “Алей (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Алей”
- Urdu: “عالیہ، لبنان”
- Urdu: “عالیہ”
- Veps: “Alei”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Balcony of Aley and Aley luna park.
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