Levant

The Levant is a region in the south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east.
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  • Type: region with 44,600,000 residents
  • Description: geographic and cultural region consisting of the eastern Mediterranean between Anatolia and the Sinai Peninsula
  • Also known as: “De Levant”, “Eastern Mediterranean”, “Levante Mediterraneo”, “Levante mediterrânico”, “Levanteno”, “Levantenujo”, “Levantine”, “Levantines”, “Levantini”, “Levants”, “Litorale Levantino”, “Llevant mediterrani”, “Mediterana de Est”, “The Levant”, “Xam”, “Леванта”, “Լեվանթ”, “Լևանթ”, “א-שאם”, “אלשאם”, “ארצות השאם”, “הלבאנט”, “הלבנט”, “השאם”, “לבאנט”, “לבנטיני”, “לוואנט”, “לוונט”, “שאם”, “بلاد شام”, “خطہ شام”, “سوريا الطبيعية”, “سوريا القديمة”, “شامات”, “شرق المتوسط”, “شرق طالع”, “لیونٹ”, “बिलाद अश-शाम”, “लवैन्ट”, “লিভান্ট”, “লেভান্ট”, “শাম”, “ലെവന്റ്”, “บริเวณเลแวนต์”, “เลแวนต์”, “レヴァント”, “列万特”, “列凡特”, “利凡特”, “累範特”, and “累范特”
  • Neighbors: and

Levant

Latitude of center
33.82° or 33° 49′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
36.3° or 36° 18′ east
Population
44,600,000
Wiki­data ID
Q81483
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Levant” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Levant”
  • Albanian: “Levanti”
  • Arabic: “الشام”
  • Arabic: “المشرق”
  • Armenian: “Լևանտ”
  • Arpitan: “Levant”
  • Asturian: “Llevante mediterraneu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Levant”
  • Bashkir: “Левант”
  • Basque: “Levante”
  • Basque: “Sortalde”
  • Belarusian: “Левант”
  • Bengali: “ঐতিহাসিক পূর্ব-ভূমধ্যসাগরীয় অঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “পূর্ব ভূমধ্যসাগরীয় অঞ্চল”
  • Bosnian: “Levant”
  • Breton: “Sav-Heol”
  • Bulgarian: “Левант”
  • Catalan: “Llevant”
  • Central Kurdish: “شام”
  • Chinese: “黎凡特”
  • Chuvash: “Левант”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Şam”
  • Croatian: “Levant”
  • Czech: “Levanta”
  • Danish: “Levanten”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Levant”
  • Dutch: “Levant”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الشام”
  • Esperanto: “Levantenio”
  • Estonian: “Levant”
  • Finnish: “Levantti”
  • French: “Levant”
  • Galician: “Levante mediterráneo”
  • Georgian: “ლევანტი”
  • German: “Levante”
  • Greek: “Λεβάντες”
  • Hebrew: “לבנט”
  • Hindi: “लेवंट”
  • Hindi: “शाम”
  • Hungarian: “Levante”
  • Icelandic: “Botnalönd”
  • Ido: “Levanto”
  • Indonesian: “Levant”
  • Interlingue: “Levante”
  • Irish: “an Leiveaint”
  • Irish: “An Leiveaint”
  • Italian: “Levante”
  • Japanese: “レバント”
  • Javanese: “Levant”
  • Kashmiri: “سرزمیٖن شام”
  • Kazakh: “Левант”
  • Kazakh: “Шам”
  • Korean: “레반트”
  • Kurdish: “Şam”
  • Latin: “Levans”
  • Latvian: “Levante”
  • Limburgan: “Levant”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Levante”
  • Lithuanian: “Levantas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Levant”
  • Macedonian: “Левант”
  • Malagasy: “Ampiposahana (faritra)”
  • Malagasy: “Ampiposahana”
  • Malay: “Masyrik”
  • Malay: “Syam”
  • Malay: “شام”
  • Malayalam: “ലവാന്റ്”
  • Malayalam: “ശാം”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Levant”
  • Mingrelian: “ლევანტი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Levanten”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Levanten”
  • Norwegian: “Levanten”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Levant”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܬܪܘܬܐ ܕܫܐܡ”
  • Ossetian: “Левант”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਾਮ”
  • Persian: “شام”
  • Polish: “Lewant”
  • Portuguese: “Levante”
  • Romanian: “Levant”
  • Russian: “Левант”
  • Rusyn: “Левант”
  • Saraiki: “شام”
  • Scots: “Levant”
  • Serbian: “Левант”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Levant”
  • Sindhi: “سر زمين شام”
  • Sindhi: “ليوانت (سر زمين شام)”
  • Slovak: “Levanta”
  • Slovenian: “Levant”
  • Somali: “Liivoont”
  • Somali: “Shaam”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شام (یورد)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوانت”
  • Spanish: “Levante mediterráneo”
  • Swedish: “Levanten”
  • Tagalog: “Lebante”
  • Tagalog: “Levant”
  • Tajik: “Шом”
  • Tamil: “லெவண்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Левант”
  • Thai: “ลิแวนต์”
  • Tibetan: “ལའེ་ཧྥན་ཐ།”
  • Turkish: “Doğu Akdeniz”
  • Turkish: “Levant”
  • Turkmen: “Lewant”
  • Ukrainian: “Левант”
  • Urdu: “سرزمین شام”
  • Uzbek: “Levant”
  • Uzbek: “Shom”
  • Venetian: “Levante (rejon stòrega)”
  • Venetian: “Levante”
  • Vietnamese: “Levant”
  • Welsh: “Lefant”
  • Western Frisian: “Levant”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیونت”
  • Wu Chinese: “莱万特地区”
  • Wu Chinese: “黎凡特”
  • Yue Chinese: “黎凡特”

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