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Kfarshima

Kfarshima, also spelled Kfarchima, is a town in the of the , southeast of and is part of Greater Beirut.
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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 Embassy of Indonesia.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bsous is a silk in the town of near Wadi Chahrour in , located around 15 kilometres east of . is situated 3½ km east of Kfarshima.

Government office
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Beirut is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the . The first Indonesian ambassador to Lebanon was Dalindra Aman in 1996. is situated 3½ km north of Kfarshima.

Government office
The in Beirut is the diplomatic mission of the to the . Opened in 1996, it is currently located at the W Building on Rue Mar Geries in the southern suburb of Hadeth, part of the in the . is situated 3½ km north of Kfarshima.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Choueifat and Houmal.

Village
is one of the biggest and most important cities south of in . 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 a good alternative to the crowded southern suburb known as Dahieh.

Village
is a town in which makes up one of the 70 towns and villages in the district of . It is 400 meters above sea level and 25 kilometres from the capital .

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
is the capital city of and . was also the capital city of the autonomous Ottoman Mount Lebanon that existed from 1861 to 1918.

Kfarshima

Latitude
33.8137° or 33° 48′ 49″ north
Longitude
35.53554° or 35° 32′ 8″ east
Elevation
92 metres (302 feet)
Open location code
8G5QRG7P+F6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5943421451
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7840010
Wiki­data ID
Q3055952
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kfarshima”. Photo: Kfarchima, CC BY-SA 3.0.