Kfarshima
Kfarshima, also spelled Kfarchima, is a town in the Baabda District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, southeast of Beirut and is part of Greater Beirut.Photo: Kfarchima, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Kafr Shima”, “Kfar Chima”, and “Kfar Shima”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Silk Museum and Serail Baabda.
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. Silk Museum is situated 3½ km east of Kfarshima.
Serail Baabda
Office building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Seraglio of Baabda, is a historic building located in Baabda, Lebanon, and is one of the country's oldest official buildings. This particular seraglio played a key role in Lebanon's history between 1860 and 1916, during the period of the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate.
Collège Notre-Dame de Jamhour
School
Collège Notre-Dame de Jamhour often known colloquially as Jamhour, is a private, Catholic, co-educational, primary and secondary school, located in Jamhour, in the Baabda District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. Collège Notre-Dame de Jamhour is situated 3½ km northeast of Kfarshima.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Choueifat and Houmal.
Choueifat
Village
Choueifat is one of the biggest and most important cities south of Beirut in Lebanon. The local population of the city is made up of mostly Druze and a Christian minority, but in the last 25 years, many Beirutis have moved in to escape the capital's high rents, while many southerners have found Choueifat a good alternative to the crowded southern suburb known as Dahieh.
Houmal
Village
Houmal is a town in Mount Lebanon which makes up one of the 70 towns and villages in the district of Aley. It is 400 meters above sea level and 25 kilometres from the capital Beirut.
Baabda
Town
Baabda is the capital city of Baabda District and Mount Lebanon Governorate, western Lebanon. Baabda was also the capital city of the autonomous Ottoman Mount Lebanon that existed from 1861 to 1918.
Kfarshima
- Categories: human settlement, village/town/city in Lebanon, and locality
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.8137° or 33° 48′ 49″ northLongitude
35.53554° or 35° 32′ 8″ eastElevation
92 metres (302 feet)Open location code
8G5QRG7P+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 5943421451OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Kfarshima” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كفر شيما”
- Arabic: “كفرشيما”
- Azerbaijani: “Kfar-şima”
- Bulgarian: “Кфаршима”
- Cebuano: “Kfarshima”
- Dutch: “Kfarshima”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كفر شيما”
- French: “Kfarchima”
- German: “Kfarshima”
- Hebrew: “כפרשימה”
- Irish: “Kfarshima”
- Italian: “Kfarchima”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kfarshima”
- Pampanga: “Kfarshima”
- Persian: “کفرشیما”
- Russian: “Кфар-шима”
- Swedish: “Kfarshima”
- Urdu: “کفر شیما”
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