South Lebanon
Southern Lebanon is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s.Photo: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tyre and Sidon.
Tyre
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Tyre 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.
Sidon
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Sidon is a city in Lebanon. The people are largely Sunni Muslims. The main attraction of Sidon is its Sea Castle, built by the Crusaders in the 13th century.
Jezzine
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Jezzine is a municipality in Lebanon, located 22 km from Sidon and 40 km south of Beirut. It is the capital of Jezzine District. Surrounded by mountain peaks, pine forests, and at an average altitude of 950 m, it is the main summer resort and tourist destination of South Lebanon.
Destinations to Discover
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Marjayoun
South Lebanon
- Type: region
- Description: geographic region of Lebanon
- Also known as: “Lower Lebanon”, “Northern Galilee”, and “Southern Lebanon”
- Location: Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
33.304° or 33° 18′ 14″ northLongitude of center
35.43° or 35° 25′ 48″ eastWikidata ID
Q1480109
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“South Lebanon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جنوب لبنان”
- Armenian: “Հարավային Լիբանան”
- Basque: “hegoaldeko Libano”
- Basque: “Hegoaldeko Libano”
- Basque: “Libanoko hegoaldea”
- Belarusian: “Ніжні Лібан”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвы Лібан”
- Belarusian: “Паўночная Галілея”
- Bengali: “দক্ষিণ লেবানন”
- Catalan: “sud del Líban”
- Catalan: “Sud del Líban”
- Central Kurdish: “باشووری لوبنان”
- Chechen: “Къилба Ливан”
- Chinese: “南部”
- Chinese: “南黎巴嫩”
- Danish: “Southern Lebanon”
- Dutch: “Zuidelijk Libanon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جنوب لبنان”
- Esperanto: “Suda Libano”
- Estonian: “Lõuna-Liibanon”
- Finnish: “Etelä-Libanon”
- French: “Liban du Sud”
- French: “Liban Sud”
- French: “Sud Liban”
- French: “Sud-Liban”
- German: “Südlicher Libanon”
- Greek: “Νότιος Λίβανος”
- Gujarati: “સધર્ન લેબેનોન”
- Hebrew: “דרום לבנון”
- Hindi: “दक्षिणी लेबनान”
- Indonesian: “Lebanon Selatan”
- Indonesian: “Libanon Selatan”
- Irish: “Baalbek na Liobáine”
- Irish: “Baalbek”
- Italian: “Libano del Sud”
- Italian: “Libano meridionale”
- Japanese: “レバノン南部”
- Japanese: “南レバノン”
- Javanese: “Lebanon Kidul”
- Javanese: “Libanon Kidul”
- Kannada: “ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಲೆಬನಾನ್”
- Korean: “남쪽 레바논”
- Korean: “레바논 남부”
- Latvian: “Dienvidlibāna”
- Lithuanian: “Pietų Libanas”
- Malagasy: “Libàna Atsimo”
- Malay: “Lubnan Selatan”
- Marathi: “साऊथर्न लेबनॉन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør Lebanon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sør-Libanon”
- Pampanga: “Mauling Lebanon”
- Persian: “جنوب لبنان”
- Polish: “Liban Południowy”
- Portuguese: “Sul do Líbano”
- Romanian: “Libanul de Sud”
- Russian: “Нижний Ливан”
- Russian: “Северная Галилея”
- Russian: “Южный Ливан”
- Sinhala: “දකුණු ලෙබනන්”
- Slovenian: “Južni Libanon”
- Spanish: “sur de Libano”
- Spanish: “sur de Líbano”
- Spanish: “Sur de Líbano”
- Spanish: “sur del Libano”
- Spanish: “sur del Líbano”
- Swedish: “Södra Libanon”
- Tamil: “தெற்கு லெபனான்”
- Telugu: “దక్షిణ లెబనాన్”
- Thai: “เซาท์เทิร์น เลบานอน”
- Turkish: “Güney Lübnan”
- Ukrainian: “Південний Ліван”
- Urdu: “سدرن لبنان”
- Venetian: “Lìbano del Sud”
- Vietnamese: “Phía Nam Lebanon”
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