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Jeita

Jeita is a town and municipality located in the of the of . The town is about 20 kilometres north of .
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: human settlement in Lebanon
  • Also known as: “Jaaita” and “Jaita”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lower Grotto and Bkerké.

Cave
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The Jeita Grotto is a system of two separate, but interconnected, karstic limestone spanning an overall length of nearly 9 kilometres. The caves are situated in the river valley within the locality of Jeita, 18 kilometres north of the capital .

Monastery
Photo: J.Hassoun, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the episcopal see of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch of the Maronite Church in , located 350 m above the bay of , northeast of , in Lebanon.

College
The Collège Mariste Champville is a private Marist Roman Catholic and French-language educational institution set in Dik El Mehdi, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jounieh and Bikfaya.

Photo: Serge Melki, CC BY 2.0.
is a city in . It is closely associated with , the capital. is located 16 km to the north of Beirut.

Village
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is a town in the region of . Its stone houses with red-tiled roofs resting amidst pine and oak forests make one of the most sought-after suburbs of and one of 's most popular summer resorts. is situated 5 km southeast of Jeita.

Town
Photo: Cksaad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town and municipality in the of the in . Its inhabitants are predominantly Melkite and Maronite Catholics.

Jeita

Latitude
33.951° or 33° 57′ 3″ north
Longitude
35.6448° or 35° 38′ 41″ east
Open location code
8G5QXJ2V+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5382839487
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Wiki­data ID
Q6176535
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Jeita” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جعيتا”
  • Bengali: “জেইটা”
  • Dutch: “Jeita”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جعيتا”
  • French: “Jeita”
  • German: “Jeita”
  • Irish: “Jeita”
  • Italian: “Jeita”
  • Persian: “جعیتا”
  • Polish: “Jeita”
  • Russian: “Джейта”
  • Slovenian: “Džeita”
  • Spanish: “Jeita”
  • Turkish: “Ceyta”
  • Turkish: “Jeita”
  • Urdu: “جعیتا”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Jeita”. Photo: Freedom’s Falcon, CC BY-SA 3.0.