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Bekaa

The Bekaa is a vast, open valley nestled in the east between 's two mountain ranges. The Bekaa Valley has been known since ancient times as the "bread basket of Lebanon." It is a checkerboard of fields, dotted with small villages – a testament of the region's agricultural heritage.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Baalbek and Zahle.

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بَعلبَك is one of the most spectacular archaeological sites in and one of the country's UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Baalbeck or 'Heliopolis' as it was known is the site of great ancient temples built by the Phoenicians, the Romans, and other civilisations that have conquered the region and enjoyed the fertile soil of the Bekaa Valley.

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Zahlé is a city in eastern Lebanon, and the capital and largest city of , . With around 150,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Lebanon after and and the fourth-largest taking the whole urban area.

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راشيا is a town in . al-Wadi or Rachaya el-Wadi as it was known is the site of ancient temples built by the Qaraoun culture, Phoenicians, the Romans, and other civilisations and cultures such as that have conquered the region and enjoyed the fertile soil of the Bekaa Valley.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Aaiha and Kfar Qouq.

ايحه is a village in . The village is known as the site of the "fountain of the Hasbani ", a temporary wetland, an ancient temple and rock carvings created by the Qaraoun culture, Phoenicians, the Romans, and other civilisations and cultures such as that have conquered the region and enjoyed the fertile soil of the Bekaa Valley.

is a village in . The village is known as the site of ancient temple, rock carvings, and an ancient reservoir built by the Qaraoun culture, Phoenicians, the Romans, and other civilisations and cultures such as that have conquered the region and enjoyed the fertile soil of the Bekaa Valley.

Bekaa

Latitude of center
34.008° or 34° 0′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
36.145° or 36° 8′ 42″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q202322
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Bekaa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bekaavallei”
  • Arabic: “وادي البقاع”
  • Aragonese: “Val d’a Beqaa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Biqa vadisi”
  • Basque: “Bekaa harana”
  • Basque: “Bekaa”
  • Basque: “Beqaa”
  • Belarusian: “Бэкаа (даліна)”
  • Belarusian: “Бэкаа”
  • Belarusian: “Даліна Бекаа”
  • Belarusian: “даліна Бэкаа”
  • Bengali: “বেকা ভ্যালি”
  • Bulgarian: “Бекаа”
  • Bulgarian: “Долина Бекаа”
  • Catalan: “Beka”
  • Catalan: “Bekaa”
  • Catalan: “Bika”
  • Catalan: “Vall de la Bekaa”
  • Chinese: “貝卡谷地”
  • Chinese: “贝卡”
  • Chinese: “贝卡谷地”
  • Czech: “Bekaá”
  • Czech: “Bekáa”
  • Czech: “Bikaá”
  • Czech: “Bikáa”
  • Czech: “Biqáa”
  • Czech: “Údolí Bekáa”
  • Czech: “Údolí Bikáa”
  • Danish: “Bekaa-dalen”
  • Danish: “Bekaa”
  • Danish: “Bekaadal”
  • Dutch: “Beka-vallei”
  • Dutch: “Beka’avallei”
  • Dutch: “Bekaa-vallei”
  • Dutch: “Bekaa”
  • Dutch: “Bekaavallei”
  • Dutch: “Bekavallei”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سهل البقاع”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وادى البقاع (لبنان)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وادى البقاع”
  • Esperanto: “Bekaa”
  • Esperanto: “Valo Bekaa”
  • Finnish: “Bekaan laakso”
  • Finnish: “Bekaanlaakso”
  • French: “Bekaa”
  • French: “Békaa”
  • French: “Plaine de la Bekaa”
  • French: “Vallée de Biqa‘”
  • French: “vallée de la Bekaa”
  • Georgian: “ბექაას ხეობა”
  • German: “Bekaa-Ebene”
  • German: “Bekaa-Tal”
  • German: “Biqāʿ-Ebene”
  • Greek: “Κοιλάδα Μπεκάα”
  • Gujarati: “બેક્વા વેલી”
  • Hebrew: “בקאע”
  • Hebrew: “בקעא”
  • Hebrew: “בקעת הלבנון”
  • Hebrew: “הבקאע”
  • Hebrew: “עמק בקעה”
  • Hindi: “बेक़आ वादी”
  • Hindi: “बेक्का घाटी”
  • Hungarian: “Bekaa-völgy”
  • Indonesian: “Bekaa”
  • Indonesian: “Beqaa”
  • Indonesian: “Lembah Beka’a”
  • Indonesian: “Lembah Bekaa”
  • Indonesian: “Lembah Beqaa”
  • Irish: “Gleann Beqaa”
  • Italian: “Bekaa”
  • Italian: “Beqaa”
  • Italian: “Valle del Bekaa”
  • Italian: “Valle della Bekaa”
  • Italian: “Valle della Beqa‘”
  • Italian: “Valle della Beqa’”
  • Italian: “Valle della Beqaa”
  • Japanese: “ベカー高原”
  • Japanese: “ベッカー高原”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಕಾ ಕಣಿವೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Бекаа алабы”
  • Korean: “베카 계곡”
  • Latin: “Bica vallis”
  • Latin: “Bica”
  • Latin: “Vallis Biqa”
  • Latvian: “Bekaa ieleja”
  • Latvian: “Bekaas ieleja”
  • Lithuanian: “Bekos slėnis”
  • Malay: “Beqaa Valley”
  • Marathi: “बेक्का व्हॅली”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bekaa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bekaadalen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bekaadalen”
  • Norwegian: “Bekaadalen”
  • Ossetian: “Бекаайы тæрф”
  • Persian: “بقاع”
  • Polish: “Al-Bika”
  • Polish: “Bekaa”
  • Polish: “Dolina Bekaa”
  • Portuguese: “Vale de Bekaa”
  • Portuguese: “Vale de beqaa”
  • Portuguese: “Vale do Beca”
  • Portuguese: “Vale do Bekaa”
  • Portuguese: “Vale do Beqaa”
  • Romanian: “Valea Bekaa”
  • Russian: “Бекаа”
  • Russian: “Долина Бекаа”
  • Scots: “Beqaa Valley”
  • Serbian: “Dolina Beka”
  • Serbian: “Долина Бека”
  • Serbian: “البقاع”
  • Sinhala: “බෙකා වැලි”
  • Slovenian: “Beka”
  • Slovenian: “Bekaa”
  • Spanish: “Valle de Bekaa”
  • Spanish: “Valle de Beqaa”
  • Spanish: “Valle de la Beca”
  • Spanish: “Valle de la Becá”
  • Spanish: “Valle de la Bekaa”
  • Spanish: “Valle del Bekaa”
  • Spanish: “Valle del Beqaa”
  • Swahili: “Beka’a”
  • Swedish: “Bekaadalen”
  • Swedish: “Beqaadalen”
  • Tajik: “водии Биқоъ”
  • Tajik: “Водии Биқоъ”
  • Tamil: “பெக்கா பள்ளத்தாக்கு”
  • Tamil: “பேகிஆ வாலே”
  • Telugu: “బేఖా వ్యాలీ”
  • Thai: “เบกา แวลเลย์”
  • Thai: “หุบเขาบิกออ์”
  • Turkish: “Bika Vadisi”
  • Turkish: “Bikâ Vadisi”
  • Turkish: “Bikâ‘ Vadisi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бекаа”
  • Urdu: “وادی بقاع”
  • Uzbek: “Biqo vodiysi”
  • Vietnamese: “Beqaa Valley”
  • Welsh: “Cwm Beca”
  • Welsh: “Cwm Becâ”
  • Welsh: “Cwm Becaa”
  • Welsh: “Cym Beqaa”
  • Western Frisian: “Bekafallei”
  • Yiddish: “לבנון טאל”

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