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Sidon is the seat of the Greek Melkite Catholic Archbishop of Sidon and Deir el Qamar, and has housed a significant Catholic population throughout its history. [45] Sidon also hosts the seat of the Shiite Ayatollah of South Lebanon.
South Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الجنوب, romanized: muḥāfaẓat al-Janūb, or simply الجنوب) is one of the governorates of Lebanon, with a population of 590,000 inhabitants and an area of 929.6 km 2. The capital is Sidon. The lowest elevation is sea-level; the highest is 1,000 meters.
This is a list of cities and towns in Lebanon [1] distributed according to district. There are total 1000 districts. 56.21% of the population lives in 19 cities and towns, which gives the average 2,158 people per town.
Sidon serves as the Mediterranean terminus of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, a 1,720 km (1,068.76 mi) long oil pipeline that pumps oil from the fields near Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia. The pipeline played an important role in the global trade of petroleum—helping with the economic development of Lebanon—as well as American and Middle Eastern ...
Southern Lebanon (Arabic: جنوب لبنان, romanized: janoub lubnan) 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.
Al-Ghaziyah or Ghazieh (Arabic: الغازية) is a municipality in South Lebanon, 4 kilometres south of Saida, ().It has an area of about 15sq km. Al-Ghaziyah is one of the largest businesses hubs in South Lebanon and it houses a large fuel refinery (TapLine).
Al-Ghassaniyah (الغسانية) is a municipality in southern Lebanon with a population of about 8000 . It is 14 kilometres southeast of Sidon, bordered by Kawatria Al Sayyad to the east, Al Babebliah to the west, Kakyiat Sanawbar to the northwest, and Khartoum to the southeast. The name of the town, Al-Ghassaniyah, is derived from the clan ...
Lebanon: Governorate: South Governorate ... UTC+3 : Ain ad-Delb (عين الدلب) is a municipality in the Sidon District of the South Governorate ... Demographics ...