Baajour
Baajour is a locality in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon. Baajour is situated nearby to the suburb Dahieh, as well as near the village Haret Hreik.Places of Interest
Highlights include National Museum of Beirut and Horsh Beirut.
National Museum of Beirut
Museum
Photo: Elie plus, Public domain.
The National Museum of Beirut is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942. National Museum of Beirut is situated 3½ km north of Baajour.
Horsh Beirut
Park
Horsh Beirut is an urban park in the heart of the capital of Lebanon, Beirut. The urban park is also known as Horsh El Snaubar. The park covers about 0.3 square kilometres of green space within municipal Beirut. Horsh Beirut is situated 2½ km north of Baajour.
Embassy of the Philippines
Government office
The Embassy of the Philippines in Beirut is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the Republic of Lebanon. Opened in 1996, it is currently located at the W Building on Rue Mar Geries in the southern Beirut suburb of Hadeth, part of the Baabda District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dahieh and Haret Hreik.
Dahieh
Suburb
Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dahieh is a predominantly Shia Muslim suburb in the south of Beirut, in the Baabda District of Lebanon. It has a minority of Sunni Muslims, Christians, and a Palestinian refugee camp with 20,000 inhabitants.
Haret Hreik
Village
Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Haret Hreik is a mixed Shia and Maronite Christian municipality, in the Dahieh suburbs, south of Beirut, Lebanon. It is part of the Baabda District. Once an agricultural and Christian village, Haret Hreik lost its rural and Christian identity due to the wave of Shia Muslim refugees from Southern Lebanon who settled in the town and made it another urban neighborhood of Dahieh.
Hazmiyeh
Town
Hazmieh is a city in Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, and a suburb of Beirut, part of Greater Beirut. Hazmiyeh is situated 2½ km east of Baajour.
Baajour
- Type: Locality
- Also known as: “Ba‘jūr”
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.84778° or 33° 50′ 52″ northLongitude
35.51111° or 35° 30′ 40″ eastElevation
40 metres (131 feet)Open location code
8G5QRGX6+4CGeoNames ID
6275281
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Baajour” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بعجور”
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