Bekaa
The Bekaa is a vast, open valley nestled in the east between Lebanon'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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Bekaa
- Type: valley
- Description: valley in eastern Lebanon
- Also known as: “Al-Bika”, “Beka-vallei”, “Beka’avallei”, “Bekaá”, “Bekáa”, “Békaa”, “Bekaa harana”, “Bekaa-Tal”, “Bekaa-vallei”, “Bekaadal”, “Beqaa”, “Beqaa Valley”, “Beqaadalen”, “Bica vallis”, “Bika”, “Bikâ‘ Vadisi”, “Bikaá”, “Biqáa”, “Biqāʿ-Ebene”, “Cwm Beca”, “Cwm Becaa”, “Cym Beqaa”, “Lembah Beka’a”, “Lembah Beqaa”, “Údolí Bekáa”, “Údolí Bikáa”, “Vale de Bekaa”, “Vale de beqaa”, “Vale do Bekaa”, “Valle de Bekaa”, “Valle de Beqaa”, “Valle de la Beca”, “Valle de la Bekaa”, “Valle del Bekaa”, “Valle del Beqaa”, “Valle della Bekaa”, “Valle della Beqaa”, “Vallée de Biqa‘”, “vallée de la Bekaa”, “Valo Bekaa”, “Бэкаа (даліна)”, “даліна Бэкаа”, “בקעא”, “בקעת הלבנון”, “הבקאע”, “עמק בקעה”, “البقاع”, “سهل البقاع”, “बेक्का घाटी”, and “ベカー高原”
- Location: Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
34.008° or 34° 0′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
36.145° or 36° 8′ 42″ east
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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”
- Belarusian: “Бэкаа”
- Belarusian: “Даліна Бекаа”
- Bengali: “বেকা উপত্যকা”
- Bengali: “বেকা ভ্যালি”
- Bulgarian: “Бекаа”
- Bulgarian: “Долина Бекаа”
- Catalan: “Bekaa”
- Catalan: “Vall de la Bekaa”
- Chinese: “貝卡谷地”
- Chinese: “贝卡”
- Chinese: “贝卡谷地”
- Czech: “Bikáa”
- Danish: “Bekaa-dalen”
- Dutch: “Bekavallei”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وادى البقاع (لبنان)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وادى البقاع”
- Esperanto: “Bekaa”
- Finnish: “Bekaan laakso”
- Finnish: “Bekaanlaakso”
- French: “Bekaa”
- French: “Plaine de la Bekaa”
- Georgian: “ბექაას ხეობა”
- German: “Bekaa-Ebene”
- Greek: “Κοιλάδα Μπεκάα”
- Gujarati: “બેક્વા વેલી”
- Hebrew: “בקאע”
- Hindi: “बेक़आ वादी”
- Hungarian: “Bekaa-völgy”
- Indonesian: “Lembah Bekaa”
- Irish: “Gleann Beqaa”
- Italian: “Valle della Beqa‘”
- Italian: “Valle della Beqa’”
- Japanese: “ベッカー高原”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಕಾ ಕಣಿವೆ”
- Kazakh: “Бекаа алабы”
- Korean: “베카 계곡”
- Latin: “Bica”
- Latin: “Vallis Biqa”
- Latvian: “Bekaa ieleja”
- Latvian: “Bekaas ieleja”
- Lithuanian: “Bekos slėnis”
- Malay: “Beqaa Valley”
- Marathi: “बेक्का व्हॅली”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bekaadalen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bekaadalen”
- Norwegian: “Bekaadalen”
- Ossetian: “Бекаайы тæрф”
- Persian: “بقاع”
- Polish: “Dolina Bekaa”
- Portuguese: “Vale do Beca”
- Portuguese: “Vale do Beqaa”
- Romanian: “Valea Bekaa”
- Russian: “Долина Бекаа”
- Scots: “Beqaa Valley”
- Serbian: “Dolina Beka”
- Serbian: “Долина Бека”
- Sinhala: “බෙකා වැලි”
- Slovenian: “Beka”
- Slovenian: “Bekaa”
- Spanish: “Valle de la Becá”
- Swahili: “Beka’a”
- Swedish: “Bekaadalen”
- 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”
- Ukrainian: “Бекаа”
- Urdu: “وادی بقاع”
- Uzbek: “Biqo vodiysi”
- Vietnamese: “Beqaa Valley”
- Welsh: “Cwm Becâ”
- Western Frisian: “Bekafallei”
- Western Panjabi: “وادی بقاع”
- Yiddish: “לבנון טאל”
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