Beirut

Beirut is the capital city of with a population of approximately 2.1 million people in its metropolitan area. The city is on a relatively small headland jutting into the east Mediterranean.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Ashrafieh and Downtown Beirut.

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is in Beirut, it is one of Beirut's oldest and most charming districts and is considered an important tourist outlet in Beirut where a great number of restaurants, coffee shops and nightclubs are located.

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is the central district of Beirut, with its outdoor cafes restaurants and high end designer stores. The inner area around Nejmeh Square is pedestrian-only. is to its east, while , , Manara and to its west.

is a district in Beirut. Prior to 1975, Street was referred to as Beirut's "Champs Elysées" as it was frequented by tourists all year round.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Rawcheh and Ras Beirut.

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is in Beirut. The has always been a tourist attraction. Its renowned rock landmark Pigeon Rocks attracts visitors from all over the world.

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is an upscale residential neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon. It has a mixed population of Christians, Muslims and Druze, and is associated with nonsectarian relations between members of the groupings.

Ain El Mraisseh is in Beirut, along Beirut's coastal Corniche, which stretches for several kilometers. It is only a few minutes away from the renovated city center.

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is in Beirut. is one of Beirut's most prestigious residential neighborhoods where also some of the most important fashion boutiques are found.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museum of Beirut and Saint Joseph University of Beirut.

Museum
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The is the principal museum of archaeology in . The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942.

University
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is a private research university in Beirut, , founded in 1875 by French Jesuit missionaries and subsidized by the Government of France during the time when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule.

Park
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is an in the heart of the capital of , 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jnah and Bourj Hammoud.

is in Beirut. The is one of the luxurious residential districts of the Capital. Its name literally means "wing" due to its location along the southern border of Beirut, extending eastward from the sea to the reconstructed Sport City inland.

Town
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is a town and municipality in located north-east of the capital Beirut, in the , and is part of Greater Beirut. The town is heavily populated by Lebanese Armenians.

Suburb
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is a predominantly Shia Muslim suburb in the south of Beirut, in the of . It has a minority of Sunni Muslims, Christians, and a Palestinian refugee camp with 20,000 inhabitants.

Beirut

Latitude
33.8671° or 33° 52′ 2″ north
Longitude
35.496° or 35° 29′ 46″ east
Population
1,250,000
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
IATA airport code
BEY
United Nations Location Codes
LB BEY and LB BYT
Open location code
8G5QVF8W+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 289346590
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
276781
Wiki­data ID
Q3820
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Beirut” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Беирут”
  • Achinese: “Bairut”
  • Achinese: “Beirut”
  • Afrikaans: “Beiroet”
  • Albanian: “Beirut”
  • Albanian: “Bejrut”
  • Albanian: “Bejruti”
  • Amharic: “ቤይሩት”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βηρυτός”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λαοδίκεια ἡ ἐν Φοινίκῃ”
  • Arabic: “بيروت، لبنان”
  • Arabic: “بيروت”
  • Arabic: “بَيْرُوت”
  • Aragonese: “Beirut”
  • Armenian: “Բեյրութ”
  • Armenian: “Բեյ­րութ”
  • Armenian: “Պէյրութ”
  • Assamese: “বেইৰুট”
  • Assamese: “বেইৰুত”
  • Asturian: “Beirut”
  • Azerbaijani: “Beyrut”
  • Balinese: “Beirut”
  • Bashkir: “Бәйрүт”
  • Basque: “Beirut”
  • Belarusian: “Бейрут”
  • Belarusian: “Бэйрут”
  • Bengali: “বৈরুত”
  • Betawi: “Bérut”
  • Bosnian: “Bejrut”
  • Breton: “Beirout”
  • Bulgarian: “Бейрут”
  • Burmese: “ဘေရွတ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Beirut”
  • Cebuano: “Beirut”
  • Central Bikol: “Beirut”
  • Central Kanuri: “Beirut”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەیروت”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەیرووت”
  • Chechen: “Бейрут”
  • Chinese: “Beirut”
  • Chinese: “貝里圖斯”
  • Chinese: “貝魯特”
  • Chinese: “贝鲁特”
  • Chinese: “高壓行動”
  • Chuvash: “Бейрут”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Beyrut”
  • Croatian: “Beirut”
  • Croatian: “Bejrut”
  • Czech: “Bejrút”
  • Danish: “Beirut”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Beyrut”
  • Dutch: “Beiroet”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бейрут”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيروت”
  • Erzya: “Бейрут ош”
  • Esperanto: “Bejruto”
  • Estonian: “Beirut”
  • Extremaduran: “Beirut”
  • Faroese: “Beirut”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Beirut”
  • Finnish: “Beirut”
  • French: “Beyrouth”
  • Gagauz: “Beyrut”
  • Galician: “Beirut”
  • Georgian: “ბეირუთი”
  • German: “Beirut”
  • German: “Beyrut”
  • Greek: “Βηρυτός”
  • Guarani: “Beirut”
  • Gujarati: “બેરૂત”
  • Haitian: “Bewout”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Beirut”
  • Hausa: “Beirut”
  • Hausa: “Berut”
  • Hawaiian: “Beirut”
  • Hebrew: “ביירות”
  • Hebrew: “בירות”
  • Hindi: “बेयरूत”
  • Hindi: “बेरूत”
  • Hungarian: “Bejrút”
  • Icelandic: “Beirút”
  • Ido: “Beirut”
  • Iloko: “Beirut”
  • Inari Sami: “Beirut”
  • Indonesian: “Beirut”
  • Interlingua: “Beirut”
  • Interlingue: “Beirut”
  • Irish: “Béiriút”
  • Italian: “Beirut”
  • Japanese: “ベイルート”
  • Javanese: “Beirut”
  • Kabiyè: “Peehiruti”
  • Kabyle: “Birut”
  • Kalaallisut: “Beirut”
  • Kannada: “ಬೈರುತ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Beyrut”
  • Kashmiri: “بیروت”
  • Kazakh: “Бейрут”
  • Kirghiz: “Бейрет шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Бейрут”
  • Komering: “Beirut”
  • Korean: “베이루트”
  • Kurdish: “Bêrût”
  • Latin: “Berytus”
  • Latvian: “Beirūta”
  • Ligurian: “Beirut”
  • Limburgan: “Beiroet”
  • Lithuanian: “Beirutas”
  • Livvi: “Beirut”
  • Lombard: “Beirut”
  • Luxembourgish: “Beirut”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Beirut”
  • Macedonian: “Бејрут”
  • Magahi: “बेरुत”
  • Maithili: “बेरुत”
  • Malagasy: “Beirota”
  • Malagasy: “Beirut”
  • Malay: “Beirut”
  • Malay: “بيروت”
  • Malayalam: “ബെയ്‌റൂത്ത്”
  • Malayalam: “ബെയ്റൂത്ത്”
  • Maltese: “Beirut”
  • Maltese: “Bejrut”
  • Manx: “Beirut”
  • Marathi: “बैरूत”
  • Mazanderani: “بیروت”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Beirut”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Beyrouth”
  • Minangkabau: “Beirut”
  • Mingrelian: “ბეირუთი”
  • Mirandese: “Beirute”
  • Moksha: “Бейрут ошсь”
  • Moksha: “Бэйрут”
  • Mongolian: “Бейрут”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بيروت”
  • Navajo: “Tó Hadahadleeh”
  • Neapolitan: “Beirut”
  • Nepali: “बेरुत”
  • Newari: “बेय्रुत”
  • Northern Frisian: “Beirut”
  • Northern Luri: “بیروت”
  • Northern Sami: “Beirut”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beirut”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beirut”
  • Norwegian: “Beirut”
  • Novial: “Beyrut”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barut”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Beirot”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܝܪܘܬ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Berytus”
  • Oriya: “ବିରୁଟ”
  • Ossetian: “Бейрут”
  • Pampanga: “Beirut”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੇਰੂਤ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੈਰੂਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Beirut”
  • Persian: “بیروت”
  • Piemontese: “Beirut”
  • Polish: “Bejrut”
  • Portuguese: “Beirute”
  • Portuguese: “Beyrout”
  • Pushto: “بېروت”
  • Quechua: “Beyrut”
  • Romanian: “Beirut”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бейрут”
  • Russian: “Бейрут”
  • Russian: “Вирит”
  • Sakizaya: “Pey-lu-te”
  • Samogitian: “Beirots”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱮᱭᱨᱩᱛ”
  • Sardinian: “Beirut”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Beirut”
  • Scots: “Beirut”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Beirut”
  • Serbian: “Бејрут”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bejrut”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းပေႇရုတ်ႉ”
  • Shona: “Beirut”
  • Sicilian: “Beirut”
  • Silesian: “Bejrut”
  • Sindhi: “بيروت”
  • Sinhala: “බේරුට්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Beirut”
  • Slovak: “Bejrút”
  • Slovenian: “Bejrut”
  • Somali: “Beyruut”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بئیروت”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیروت”
  • Spanish: “Beirut”
  • Swahili: “Beirut”
  • Swedish: “Beirut”
  • Swiss German: “Beirut”
  • Tagalog: “Beirut”
  • Tajik: “Байрут”
  • Tajik: “Бейрут”
  • Talysh: “Bejrut”
  • Talysh: “Beyrut”
  • Tamil: “பெய்ரூத்”
  • Tamil: “பேய்ருட்”
  • Tamil: “பைறூத்து”
  • Tatar: “Бәйрут”
  • Telugu: “బీరుట్”
  • Telugu: “బేరూత్”
  • Tetum: “Beirute”
  • Thai: “เบรุต”
  • Tibetan: “པེ་རུ་ཐེ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Beirut”
  • Turkish: “Beyrut”
  • Turkmen: “Beýrut”
  • Udmurt: “Бейрут”
  • Uighur: “بەيرۇت”
  • Uighur: “بېيرۇت”
  • Ukrainian: “Бейрут”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Beirut”
  • Urdu: “بیروت”
  • Uzbek: “Bayrut”
  • Venetian: “Beirut”
  • Veps: “Beirut”
  • Vietnamese: “Beirut”
  • Vlax Romani: “Beirut”
  • Volapük: “Bäyrut”
  • Võro: “Beirut”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beirut”
  • Welsh: “Beirut”
  • Western Armenian: “Պէյրութ”
  • Western Frisian: “Beirût”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیروت”
  • Wu Chinese: “贝鲁特”
  • Yakut: “Бейрут”
  • Yiddish: “ביירוט”
  • Yiddish: “בעירוט”
  • Yoruba: “Beirut”
  • Yue Chinese: “貝魯特”
  • Zeeuws: “Beiroet”
  • Zulu: “i-Beirut”
  • “Beirots”
  • “Beirut”
  • “ma tomo Pelu”
  • “ma tomo Pelu pi ma Lunpan”

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