Beirut has been destroyed and rebuilt seven times, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities.
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Lebanon
Lebanese Republic ยท ูุจูุงู
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
10.45Kkmยฒ of land
$7.58KGDP / person
BeirutCapital
- ISO codes
- LB ยท LBN
- Density
- 656 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic, French
- Currency
- Lebanese pound (LBP)
- Dial code
- +961
- Internet domain
- .lb
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 34.1330ยฐ N, 35.9930ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Lebanese
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $51.99B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Lebanon stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
108th
of 242 ยท 0.09% of world population
Land area
167th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
121st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
16th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Lebanon
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 6,855,713 people, the 108th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,120 of everyone alive.
Covers 10,452 kmยฒ, making it the 167th largest country here - about 4 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 656 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Beirut, at 33.87ยฐ N, 35.51ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,846,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Israel and Syria.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Beirut.
The currency is the Lebanese pound (LBP, symbol ู.ู).
Has 2 official languages: Arabic and French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Beirut
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Beirut
Beirut
33.8739ยฐ N, 35.5078ยฐ E
1.85M
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Lebanon.