Middle East
Lebanon
North Lebanon

Mount Lebanon

Mount Lebanon is a mountain range in . It is about 170 km long and averages above 2,500 m in elevation, with its peak at 3,088 m. The range provides a typical alpine climate year-round.
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  • Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 2,953 metres
  • Description: mountain range in Lebanon
  • Also known as: “Lebanon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Qurnat as Sawda’.

Peak
Photo: Erwin Franzen, Public domain.
Qurnat as Sawdā is the highest point in and the , at 3,088 m above sea level. It is the summit of Jabal al Makmel, a mountain range in , North Lebanon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bsharri and Bekaa Kafra.

Town
Photo: Argenberg, CC BY 4.0.
is a town located in the , , situated at altitudes between 1,100 m and 3,088 m. is the location of the , a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the only remaining place where the Cedrus libani tree grows natively.

Village
Photo: Potatoes8895, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village located in the in . is located above the village of across the Kadisha Valley.

Mount Lebanon

Latitude
34.29° or 34° 17′ 24″ north
Longitude
36.092° or 36° 5′ 31″ east
Elevation
2,953 metres (9,688 feet)
Open location code
8G6R73QR+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5202433527
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­mountain_range
Geo­Names ID
9062341
Wiki­data ID
Q333711
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Mount Lebanon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل لبنان”
  • Aragonese: “Mont de Liban”
  • Armenian: “Լիբանանի լեռնաշղթա”
  • Armenian: “Լիբանանի լեռներ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cəbəl-Lübnan”
  • Basque: “Libano mendia”
  • Belarusian: “Лібан”
  • Belarusian: “Ліван (хрыбет)”
  • Belarusian: “Ліван”
  • Bulgarian: “Ливан”
  • Catalan: “Libanus Mons”
  • Catalan: “Mont Líban”
  • Cebuano: “Mohafazat Mont-Liban”
  • Central Kurdish: “کێوی لوبنان”
  • Chinese: “山區”
  • Chinese: “黎巴嫩山”
  • Czech: “Libanon”
  • Danish: “Libanonbjerget”
  • Dutch: “Libanon gebergte”
  • Dutch: “Libanon”
  • Dutch: “Libanongebergte”
  • Esperanto: “Lebanono”
  • Esperanto: “Libanona Montaro”
  • Finnish: “Libanoninvuoret”
  • Finnish: “Libanonvuoret”
  • French: “mont Liban”
  • French: “Mont Liban”
  • French: “Mont-Liban”
  • Georgian: “ლიბანის ქედი”
  • German: “Dschabal Lubnan”
  • German: “Libanongebirge”
  • German: “Mont Liban”
  • German: “Schwarzwaldgebirge”
  • Greek: “όρος Λίβανος”
  • Greek: “οροσειρά του Λιβάνου”
  • Greek: “Οροσειρά του Λιβάνου”
  • Hebrew: “אמנה”
  • Hebrew: “הר הלבנון”
  • Hebrew: “הר-הלבנון”
  • Hebrew: “הרי הלבנון”
  • Hindi: “लेबनान पर्वतमाला”
  • Hindi: “लेबनान पर्वतों”
  • Hungarian: “Libanon-hegység”
  • Hungarian: “Libanoni-hegység”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Lebanon”
  • Irish: “Sliabh na Liobáine”
  • Italian: “Monte Libano”
  • Japanese: “ジェベリ・リュブナン”
  • Japanese: “レバノン山”
  • Japanese: “レバノン山地”
  • Japanese: “レバノン山脈”
  • Korean: “레바논산”
  • Korean: “레바논산맥”
  • Ladin: “Mont Lebanon”
  • Latvian: “Libāns”
  • Lithuanian: “Libano kalnai”
  • Macedonian: “Либан”
  • Malagasy: “Libàna (tendrombohitra)”
  • Malagasy: “Tendrombohitra Libàna”
  • Malay: “Gunung Lebanon”
  • Malay: “Gunung Lubnan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Libanonfjellene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Libanonfjella”
  • Norwegian: “Libanonfjellene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Liban”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܛܘܪ ܠܒܢܢ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܛܘܪܐ ܕܠܒܢܢ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܛܘܪܠܒܢܢ”
  • Persian: “جبل لبنان (رشته‌کوه)”
  • Persian: “جبل لبنان”
  • Polish: “Dżabal Lubnan”
  • Polish: “Liban”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Líbano”
  • Romanian: “Munții Liban”
  • Russian: “Дже­бель-Луб­нан”
  • Russian: “Ливан”
  • Russian: “Ливанский хребет”
  • Scots: “Moont Lebanon”
  • Scots: “Mount Lebanon”
  • Serbian: “Либан (планина)”
  • Serbian: “Либан”
  • Slovak: “Libanon”
  • Slovenian: “Džebel lubnan”
  • Slovenian: “Gorovje Libanon”
  • Slovenian: “Libanon”
  • Slovenian: “Libanonsko gorovje”
  • Slovenian: “Pogorje Libanon”
  • Spanish: “Cordillera del Libano”
  • Spanish: “Cordillera del Líbano”
  • Spanish: “Monte Libano”
  • Spanish: “Monte Líbano”
  • Spanish: “Montes del Libano”
  • Spanish: “Montes del Líbano”
  • Swahili: “Milima ya Lebanoni”
  • Swedish: “Libanonbergen”
  • Swedish: “Libanonberget”
  • Swedish: “Mount Lebanon”
  • Turkish: “Lübnan Dağ Sırası”
  • Turkish: “Lübnan Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Lübnan Dağları”
  • Turkish: “Lübnan Sıradağı”
  • Turkish: “Lübnan Sıradağları”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліван”
  • Ukrainian: “Хребет Ліван”
  • Urdu: “کوہ لبنان”
  • Uzbek: “Jabal Lubnon”
  • Venetian: “Monte Libano”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Liban”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Libano”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Libanus”
  • Western Frisian: “Libanon-berchtme”
  • Western Frisian: “Libanon”
  • Yiddish: “לבנון בארג”

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Localities in the Area

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