Afqa
Afqa is a village and municipality located in the Byblos District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, 71 kilometres northeast of Beirut in Lebanon. It has an average elevation of 1,200 meters above sea level and a total land area of 934 hectares.
- Village
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,200 metres (3,940 feet)
- …is also known as “Afka”
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
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Basloukit
Village
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Aslout
Village
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2½ km west of Afqa
Afqa
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Latitude
34.32177° or 34° 19′ 18″ north
Longitude
35.99081° or 35° 59′ 27″ east
Open location code
8G6Q8XCR+P8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = village
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Urdu—“Afqa” goes by many names.
ἌφακαAncient Greek (to 1453)
أفقاArabic
艾夫加Chinese
AfqaDutch
افقاEgyptian Arabic
AphacaLatin
AfqaNorwegian
AfqaNorwegian Bokmål
AfqaNorwegian Nynorsk
افقاPersian
AfkaPolish
АфкаRussian
افقا، لبنانUrdu
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