Zahle
Zahlé is a city in eastern Lebanon, and the capital and largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. With around 150,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Lebanon after Beirut and Tripoli and the fourth-largest taking the whole urban area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nassif.seif, Public domain.
- Type: City with 78,100 residents
- Description: capital and largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon
- Also known as: “,زحلة”, “Zahlé”, “Zakhla”, and “זחל”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saadnayel.
Saadnayel
Town
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saadnayel is a town in the Bekaa Valley in the Zahlé District of Lebanon. It has a population of around 20,000 Lebanese, mostly Sunni Muslims. Saadnayel lies 47 kilometres from Beirut.
Zahle
- Categories: municipality of Lebanon and locality
- Location: Beqaa Governorate, Bekaa, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.8477° or 33° 50′ 52″ northLongitude
35.9025° or 35° 54′ 9″ eastPopulation
78,100Elevation
963 metres (3,159 feet)IATA airport code
QZQUnited Nations Location Code
LB QZQOpen location code
8G5QRWX2+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 564377442OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
266045Wikidata ID
Q26569
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Zahle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زحلة”
- Armenian: “Զահլե”
- Asturian: “Zahlé”
- Azerbaijani: “Zəhlə”
- Basque: “Zahleh”
- Belarusian: “Захле”
- Bengali: “যাহ্লে”
- Bulgarian: “Захла”
- Catalan: “Zahle”
- Catalan: “Zahlé”
- Cebuano: “Zahlé”
- Chinese: “扎赫勒”
- Croatian: “Zahle”
- Czech: “Zahlé”
- Danish: “Zahlé”
- Dutch: “Zahle”
- Dutch: “Zahleh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زحله”
- Estonian: “Zahlah”
- Estonian: “Zaḩlah”
- Finnish: “Zahlé”
- French: “Zahle”
- French: “Zahlé”
- French: “Zahleh”
- Galician: “Sahla”
- Georgian: “ზაჰლა”
- German: “Zahla”
- German: “Zaḥlah”
- German: “Zahle”
- German: “Zahlé”
- German: “Zahleh”
- Greek: “Ζάχλε”
- Gujarati: “ઝાહલે”
- Hebrew: “זחלה”
- Hindi: “ज़ाले”
- Indonesian: “Zahlé”
- Italian: “Zahle”
- Italian: “Zahleh”
- Japanese: “ザーレ”
- Kalaallisut: “Zahlé”
- Kannada: “ಜಹ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “자흘레”
- Latvian: “Zehla”
- Lithuanian: “Zahlė”
- Malay: “Zahlé”
- Marathi: “झेलइ”
- Mazanderani: “زحله”
- Mingrelian: “ზაჰლა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zahle”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zahleh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zahlé”
- Norwegian: “Zahle”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zahlé”
- Ossetian: “Захлæ”
- Pampanga: “Zahle”
- Persian: “زحله، لبنان”
- Persian: “زحله”
- Polish: “Zahla”
- Polish: “Zahle”
- Portuguese: “Zahle”
- Portuguese: “Zahlé”
- Portuguese: “Zahleh”
- Portuguese: “Zalé”
- Romanian: “Zahlé”
- Russian: “Захла”
- Russian: “Захле”
- Scots: “Zahlé”
- Serbian: “Захле”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zahlé”
- Silesian: “Zahla”
- Sinhala: “සහිලේ”
- Slovenian: “Zahlé”
- Spanish: “Zahle”
- Spanish: “Zahlé”
- Swedish: “Zahla”
- Swedish: “Zahle”
- Swedish: “Zahlé”
- Swedish: “Zahleh”
- Tagalog: “Zahlé”
- Tajik: “Заҳла”
- Tamil: “சஹலே”
- Telugu: “జాహ్లే”
- Thai: “ซาเล่”
- Turkish: “Zahle”
- Ukrainian: “Захла”
- Urdu: “زحلہ”
- Uzbek: “Zahla”
- Veps: “Zahle”
- Vietnamese: “Zahlé”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zahlé”
- Western Armenian: “Զահլէ”
- Yiddish: “זאכלא”
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