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Lebanon

Lebanon is a country in the , on the Mediterranean Sea. Rich in diversity and history, Lebanon has hosted the Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire, and was, for a period of time, controlled by .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Beirut and Tyre.

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is the capital city of Lebanon 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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is the fourth-largest city in Lebanon. It is particularly noteworthy for its stunning and clean beaches as well as some of the finest examples of Roman architecture in the world.

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is the largest city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. Situated 81 km north of the capital , it is the capital of the and the District.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South Lebanon and Bekaa.

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Southern Lebanon is the area of Lebanon comprising the and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s.

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The is a vast, open valley nestled in the east between Lebanon's two mountain ranges. The 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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is a region of Lebanon. The region is an outdoor adventure-lover's paradise. With high, snow-capped mountains running north to south through the center of the country, this region offers a rocky, rugged terrain that is perfect for a variety of outdoor sports and adventure activities.

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Northern Lebanon uniquely blends the outdoors with extensive historical and cultural attractions. With the country’s highest mountain, Qornet es-Sawda, as well as the highest ski resort, The Cedars, this region offers a rocky, rugged terrain that makes Lebanon unique in the .

Lebanon

Latitude of center
33.8704° or 33° 52′ 13″ north
Longitude of center
35.826° or 35° 49′ 34″ east
Population
5,300,000
Area
10,400 km² (4,015 miles²)
Elevation
1,210 metres (3,970 feet)
Capital
Currency
Pound (LBP)
Phone code
.lb
Internet domain
961
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424297742
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
272103
Wiki­data ID
Q822
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Lebanon” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ливан”
  • Abkhazian: “Ливантәи Ареспублика”
  • Achinese: “Lebanon”
  • Achinese: “Lubnan”
  • Adyghe: “Ливан”
  • Afrikaans: “Libanon”
  • Akan: “Lɛbanɔn”
  • Albanian: “Liban”
  • Albanian: “Libani”
  • Amharic: “ሊባኖስ”
  • Amis: “Lebanon”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λίβανος”
  • Angika: “लेबनान”
  • Arabic: “الجمهورية اللبنانية”
  • Arabic: “الجمهوريّة اللبنانيّة”
  • Arabic: “اَلْجُمْهُورِيَّة اَللُّبْنَانِيَّة”
  • Arabic: “لبنان”
  • Aragonese: “Liban”
  • Aragonese: “Libano”
  • Armenian: “Լիբանան”
  • Arpitan: “Liban”
  • Assamese: “লেবানন”
  • Asturian: “El Líbanu”
  • Asturian: “Líbano”
  • Asturian: “República d’El Líbanu”
  • Atayal: “Lebanon”
  • Avaric: “Ливан”
  • Awadhi: “लेवनान”
  • Azerbaijani: “Livan”
  • Balinese: “Lébanon”
  • Bambara: “Libaŋ”
  • Bambara: “Lubenan”
  • Bashkir: “Ливан”
  • Basque: “Libano”
  • Batak Toba: “Libanon”
  • Bavarian: “Libanon”
  • Belarusian: “Лібан”
  • Belarusian: “Ліван”
  • Bengali: “লেবানন”
  • Betawi: “Lèbanon”
  • Bhojpuri: “लेबनान”
  • Bishnupriya: “লেবানন”
  • Bislama: “Lebanon”
  • Bosnian: “Liban”
  • Bosnian: “Libanon”
  • Brahui: “Labnán”
  • Breton: “Liban”
  • Buginese: “Lébanong”
  • Buginese: “Libanong”
  • Buginese: “ᨒᨗᨅᨊᨚ”
  • Buginese: “ᨒᨙᨅᨊᨚ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ливан”
  • Burmese: “လက်ဘနွန်”
  • Burmese: “လက်ဘနွန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Líban”
  • Catalan: “República libanesa”
  • Cebuano: “Lebanon”
  • Cebuano: “Libano”
  • Central Bikol: “Lebanon”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆماری لوبنان”
  • Central Kurdish: “لوبنان”
  • Chavacano: “Líbano”
  • Chechen: “Ливан”
  • Cherokee: “ᎴᏆᎾᏂ”
  • Chinese: “Lī-pa-lùn”
  • Chinese: “Líbānèn”
  • Chinese: “黎巴嫩”
  • Chuvash: “Ливан”
  • Cornish: “Lebanon”
  • Cornish: “Lebnon”
  • Corsican: “Libanu”
  • Corsican: “Republica Libanese”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Lübnan”
  • Croatian: “Libanon”
  • Czech: “Libanon”
  • Czech: “Libanonská republika”
  • Dagbani: “Lebanon”
  • Danish: “Libanon”
  • Dhivehi: “ލުބުނާން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lubnan”
  • Dotyali: “लेवनान”
  • Dutch: “Libaneese Republiek”
  • Dutch: “Libanon”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Libanon”
  • Dzongkha: “ལེ་བ་ནོན”
  • Dzongkha: “ལེ་བཱ་ནཱོན་”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ливан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لبنان”
  • Esperanto: “Libana Respubliko”
  • Esperanto: “Libano”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Libano”
  • Estonian: “Liibanon”
  • Estonian: “Liibanoni Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Lebanɔn nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Líbanu”
  • Faroese: “Libanon”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Lebanon”
  • Finnish: “Libanon”
  • Finnish: “Libanonin tasavalta”
  • French: “Liban”
  • French: “République libanaise”
  • Fulah: “Libaa”
  • Fulah: “Liban”
  • Gagauz: “Livan”
  • Galician: “Líbano”
  • Galician: “O Líbano”
  • Galician: “República Libanesa”
  • Ganda: “Lebanoni”
  • Georgian: “ლიბანი”
  • German: “Libanesische Republik”
  • German: “Libanon”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lebanon”
  • Gilaki: “لۊبنان”
  • Goan Konkani: “Lebanon”
  • Goan Konkani: “लेबनॉन”
  • Gorontalo: “Lebanon”
  • Greek: “Λίβανος”
  • Guarani: “Lívano”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Liban”
  • Gujarati: “લેબનોન”
  • Gujarati: “લેબેનાન”
  • Haitian: “Liban”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lì-pâ-nun”
  • Hausa: “Labanan”
  • Hausa: “Lebanon”
  • Hawaiian: “Lepanona”
  • Hebrew: “לבנון”
  • Hindi: “लेबनान”
  • Hindi: “लेबनॉन”
  • Hungarian: “Libanon”
  • Hungarian: “Libanoni Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Líbanon”
  • Ido: “Libano”
  • Igbo: “Lebanon”
  • Iloko: “Lebanon”
  • Inari Sami: “Libanon täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Libanon”
  • Indonesian: “Lebanon”
  • Indonesian: “Libanon”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Lebanon”
  • Interlingua: “Libano”
  • Interlingue: “Libano”
  • Irish: “an Liobáin”
  • Irish: “An Liobáin”
  • Italian: “Libano”
  • Italian: “Reppublica del Libano”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Libano”
  • Italian: “Repubblica Libanese”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Lebanan”
  • Japanese: “レバノン”
  • Japanese: “レバノン共和国”
  • Javanese: “Libanon”
  • Kabardian: “Ливан”
  • Kabiyè: “Liibaŋ”
  • Kabyle: “Lubnan”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Lubnan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Lebanon”
  • Kalaallisut: “Libanon”
  • Kalmyk: “Лебанмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಲೆಬನನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲೆಬನಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Livan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Любнан”
  • Kashmiri: “لؠبنان”
  • Kashubian: “Liban”
  • Kazakh: “Ливан”
  • Khmer: “លីបង់”
  • Kikuyu: “Lebanon”
  • Kikuyu: “Lebanoni”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Libani”
  • Kirghiz: “Ливан”
  • Kölsch: “Lebannon”
  • Komering: “Libanon”
  • Komi: “Ливан”
  • Kongo: “Lebanon”
  • Korean: “레바논”
  • Kurdish: “Libnan”
  • Kurdish: “لوبنان”
  • Ladin: “Liban”
  • Ladino: “Levanon”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເລບານອນ”
  • Lao: “ເລບານອນ”
  • Latin: “Libanus”
  • Latvian: “Libāna”
  • Lezghian: “Ливан”
  • Ligurian: “Libano”
  • Limburgan: “Libanon”
  • Lingala: “Libá”
  • Lingala: “Liban”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lubnan”
  • Literary Chinese: “黎巴嫩”
  • Lithuanian: “Libanas”
  • Livvi: “Livanu”
  • Lojban: “lu’orgu’e”
  • Lombard: “Liban”
  • Low German: “Libanon”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Libanon”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Liba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Libanon”
  • Macedonian: “Либан”
  • Macedonian: “Либанон”
  • Madurese: “Lebanon”
  • Maithili: “लेबनान”
  • Malagasy: “Libana”
  • Malagasy: “Libàna”
  • Malay: “lb”
  • Malay: “Lubnan”
  • Malay: “Republik Lubnan”
  • Malay: “لبنان”
  • Malayalam: “ലെബനൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ലെബനാൻ”
  • Maltese: “il-Libanu”
  • Maltese: “Libanu”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Libaniża”
  • Manipuri: “ꯂꯦꯕꯥꯅꯣꯟ”
  • Manx: “y Livaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Livaan”
  • Maori: “Repanona”
  • Marathi: “लेबनॉन”
  • Marathi: “लेबेनॉन”
  • Mazanderani: “لبنان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lé-bă-nâung”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lebanon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lebanon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lī-pa-lùn”
  • Minangkabau: “Lebanon”
  • Minangkabau: “Libanon”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიბანი”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიბანიშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიბანიშ სახენწჷფო”
  • Mirandese: “Líbano”
  • Moksha: “Либан”
  • Moksha: “Либанон”
  • Mongolian: “Ливан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لبنان”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لوبنان”
  • N'Ko: “ߟߌߓߊ߲߫”
  • Nauru: “Ribanon”
  • Navajo: “Gadtsoh Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Libbano”
  • Nepali: “लेबनन”
  • Nepali: “लेबनान”
  • Nepali: “लेवनान”
  • Newari: “लेबानन”
  • North Ndebele: “Lebhanoni”
  • Northern Frisian: “Liibanon”
  • Northern Luri: “لبنان”
  • Northern Sami: “Libanon dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Libanon”
  • Northern Sami: “Libanona dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Libanon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Libanon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den libanesiske republikken”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Libanon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Republikken Libanon”
  • Norwegian: “Libanon”
  • Novial: “Liban”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Liban”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica Libanesa”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܠܒܢܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lebanon”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Libanus”
  • Oriya: “ଲେବନାନ”
  • Oriya: “ଲେବାନନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Libaanon”
  • Ossetian: “Ливан”
  • Pali: “लेबनान”
  • Pampanga: “Lebanon”
  • Pampanga: “Líbanu”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਿਬਨਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੈਬਨਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Líbano”
  • Persian: “لبنان”
  • Picard: “Liban”
  • Piemontese: “Lìban”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Lebanon”
  • Polish: “Liban”
  • Pontic: “Λίβανος”
  • Portuguese: “Líbano”
  • Portuguese: “República do Líbano”
  • Pushto: “لبنان”
  • Pushto: “لېبنان”
  • Quechua: “Líbano”
  • Quechua: “Libanu”
  • Quechua: “Lipanu”
  • Romanian: “Liban”
  • Romansh: “Libanon”
  • Rundi: “Libani”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ливан”
  • Russian: “Ближневосточная Швейцария”
  • Russian: “Ливан”
  • Russian: “Ливанская Республика”
  • Rusyn: “Лібанон”
  • Sakizaya: “Lebanon”
  • Samoan: “Lepanona”
  • Samogitian: “Lėbans”
  • Sango: “Libùaan”
  • Sanskrit: “लेबनान”
  • Santali: “ᱞᱮᱵᱟᱱᱚᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Lìbanu”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Libanon”
  • Scots: “Lebanese Republic”
  • Scots: “Lebanon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Leabanon”
  • Serbian: “Liban”
  • Serbian: “Либан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Libanon”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းလႄႇပႃႇၼွၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Lebanon”
  • Sicilian: “Lìbbanu”
  • Silesian: “Liban”
  • Sindhi: “لبنان”
  • Sinhala: “ලෙබනනය”
  • Sinhala: “ලෙබනන් සමුහාණ්ඩුව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Libanoon tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Libanoon”
  • Slovak: “Libanon”
  • Slovak: “Libanonská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Libanon”
  • Slovenian: “Libanonska republika”
  • Somali: “Lubnaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوبنان”
  • Spanish: “el país del cedro”
  • Spanish: “Libano”
  • Spanish: “Líbano”
  • Spanish: “Republica Libanesa”
  • Spanish: “República Libanesa”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Libanon”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⵓⴱⵏⴰⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Libanon”
  • Swahili: “Lebanon”
  • Swahili: “Lebanoni”
  • Swati: “ILibhanoni”
  • Swedish: “Libanon”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Libanon”
  • Swiss German: “Libanon”
  • Sylheti: “ꠟꠦꠛꠣꠘꠘ”
  • Tagalog: “Lebanon”
  • Tajik: “Lubnon”
  • Tajik: “Лубнон”
  • Talysh: “Livan”
  • Tamil: “லெபனான்”
  • Taroko: “Lebanon”
  • Tatar: “Ливан”
  • Tatar: “Лөбнан”
  • Telugu: “లెబనాన్”
  • Tetum: “Líbanu”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเลบานอน”
  • Thai: “เลบานอน”
  • Tibetan: “ལེ་པ་ནོན།”
  • Tibetan: “ལེབ་ནོན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሊባኖስ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Lebanon”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Lepanoni”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Libanon”
  • Tsonga: “Lebanon”
  • Tumbuka: “Lebanon”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “لبنان”
  • Turkish: “lb”
  • Turkish: “Lübnan Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Lübnan”
  • Turkmen: “Liwan”
  • Twi: “Lebanon”
  • Tyap: “Lebanon”
  • Udmurt: “Ливан”
  • Uighur: “لىۋان”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліван”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліва́нська Респу́бліка”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Libanon”
  • Urdu: “لبنان”
  • Uzbek: “Lebanon”
  • Uzbek: “Livan”
  • Venetian: “Lìbano”
  • Venetian: “Łìbano”
  • Veps: “Livan”
  • Vietnamese: “Lebanon”
  • Vietnamese: “Li Băng”
  • Vietnamese: “Li-băng (Lebanon)”
  • Vietnamese: “Li-băng”
  • Vietnamese: “Liban”
  • Vlaams: “Libanon”
  • Vlax Romani: “Lebnaniya”
  • Volapük: “Libanän”
  • Volapük: “Lubnän”
  • Võro: “Liibanon”
  • Walloon: “Liban”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Libano”
  • Welsh: “Libanus”
  • Western Armenian: “Լիբանան”
  • Western Balochi: “لبنان”
  • Western Frisian: “Libanon”
  • Western Panjabi: “لبنان”
  • Wolof: “Libaa”
  • Wu Chinese: “黎巴嫩”
  • Yakut: “Либан”
  • Yiddish: “לבנון”
  • Yiddish: “לעוואנען”
  • Yoruba: “Lebanoni”
  • Yoruba: “Lẹ́bánọ́nì”
  • Yue Chinese: “黎巴嫩”
  • Zeeuws: “Libanon”
  • Zhuang: “Lebanon”
  • Zulu: “i-Lebanon”
  • “LB”
  • “LBN”
  • “Lėbans”
  • “Libano”
  • “Liibanon”
  • “ma Lunpan”
  • “लेबनान”

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