Zahle

Zahlé is a city in eastern Lebanon, and the capital and largest city of , . With around 150,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Lebanon after and and the fourth-largest taking the whole urban area.
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  • Type: City with 78,100 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon
  • Also known as: “,زحلة”, “Zahlah”, “Zaḥlah”, “Zahlé”, “Zakhla”, and “זחל”

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Zahle

Latitude
33.8477° or 33° 50′ 52″ north
Longitude
35.9025° or 35° 54′ 9″ east
Population
78,100
Elevation
963 metres (3,159 feet)
IATA airport code
QZQ
UN/LOCODE
LB QZQ
Open location code
8G5QRWX2+3X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 564377442
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
266045
Wiki­data ID
Q26569
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yiddish—“Zahle” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ዛህሌ”
  • Arabic: “زحلة”
  • Armenian: “Զահլե”
  • Asturian: “Zahlé”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zəhlə”
  • Basque: “Zahleh”
  • Belarusian: “Захле”
  • Bengali: “জাহলে”
  • Bengali: “যাহ্লে”
  • Bulgarian: “Захла”
  • Catalan: “Zahlé”
  • Cebuano: “Zahlé”
  • Chinese: “扎赫勒”
  • Croatian: “Zahle”
  • Czech: “Zahlé”
  • Danish: “Zahlé”
  • Dutch: “Zahleh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زحله”
  • Estonian: “Zaḩlah”
  • Finnish: “Zahlé”
  • French: “Zahlé”
  • Galician: “Sahla”
  • Georgian: “ზაჰლა”
  • German: “Zahlé”
  • Greek: “Ζάχλε”
  • Gujarati: “ઝાહલે”
  • Hausa: “Zahle”
  • Hebrew: “זחלה”
  • Hindi: “ज़हले”
  • Hindi: “ज़ाहले”
  • Indonesian: “Zahle”
  • Indonesian: “Zahlé”
  • Italian: “Zahle”
  • Japanese: “ザーレ”
  • Javanese: “Zahle”
  • Kalaallisut: “Zahlé”
  • Kannada: “ಜಹ್ಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Захле”
  • Kirghiz: “Захле”
  • Korean: “자흘레”
  • Latvian: “Zehla”
  • Lithuanian: “Zahlė”
  • Malay: “Zahle”
  • Malay: “Zahlé”
  • Marathi: “झेलइ”
  • Mazanderani: “زحله”
  • Mingrelian: “ზაჰლა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zahle”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zahlé”
  • Norwegian: “Zahle”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Zahlé”
  • Oromo: “Zahle”
  • Ossetian: “Захлæ”
  • Pampanga: “Zahle”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਾਹਲੇ”
  • Persian: “زحله، لبنان”
  • Persian: “زحله”
  • Polish: “Zahla”
  • Portuguese: “Zahle”
  • Portuguese: “Zahlé”
  • Portuguese: “Zalé”
  • Pushto: “زحله”
  • Romanian: “Zahlé”
  • Russian: “Захла”
  • Russian: “Захле”
  • Scots: “Zahlé”
  • Serbian: “Захле”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zahlé”
  • Silesian: “Zahla”
  • Sinhala: “සහිලේ”
  • Slovenian: “Zahlé”
  • Somali: “Zahle”
  • Spanish: “Zahle”
  • Spanish: “Zahlé”
  • Swahili: “Zahle”
  • Swedish: “Zahle”
  • Tagalog: “Zahlé”
  • Tajik: “Захле”
  • Tajik: “Заҳла”
  • Tamil: “சஹலே”
  • Tatar: “Захле”
  • Telugu: “జాహ్లే”
  • Thai: “ซาเล่”
  • Turkish: “Zahle”
  • Ukrainian: “Захла”
  • Urdu: “زحلہ”
  • Uzbek: “Zahla”
  • Uzbek: “Zahle”
  • Veps: “Zahle”
  • Vietnamese: “Zahlé”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zahlé”
  • Western Armenian: “Զահլէ”
  • Yiddish: “זאכלא”

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