Faraya
Faraya is a scenic alpine village and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon. Perched high in the Mount Lebanon range at an altitude varying between 1,600 and 2,000 meters above sea level, Faraya is famous as Lebanon's premier year-round mountain destination.
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Faraiya”, “Fārayā”, “Fārayyā”, and “Ferraya”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hrajel and Kfardebiane.
Kfardebiane
Village
Kfardebian is a municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon.
Faraya
- Category: locality
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
34.0128° or 34° 0′ 46″ north
Longitude
35.8205° or 35° 49′ 14″ east
Elevation
1,313 metres (4,308 feet)
Open location code
8G6Q2R7C+45
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Faraya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فاريا”
- Armenian: “Ֆարայա”
- Bengali: “ফারায়া”
- Cebuano: “Fâraïya”
- Dutch: “Faraya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فاريا”
- French: “Faraya”
- German: “Faraya”
- Hebrew: “פאריא”
- Irish: “Faraya”
- Italian: “Faraya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faraya”
- Persian: “فارايا”
- Persian: “فاریا”
- Spanish: “Faraya”
- Swedish: “Fâraïya”
- Turkish: “Faraya”
- Urdu: “فرایا”
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