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”, “Zahlé”, “Zakhla”, and “זחל

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saadnayel.

Town
is a town in the Bekaa Valley in the of Lebanon. It has a population of around 20,000 Lebanese, mostly Sunni Muslims. lies 47 kilometres from Beirut.

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
United Nations Location Code
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 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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