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The Tripoli District is a small, but very densely populated district in the North Governorate of Lebanon. It consists of the city Tripoli , its port town El Mina and the surrounding area. The vast majority of residents are Sunni Muslim (approximately 80%), a small minority Orthodox and Maronite Christians , and a small minority of Alawite Muslims .
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El-Mina or El Mina (Arabic: الميناء / ALA-LC: al-Mīnā’, which means "the harbour"), is the coastal side and harbor of Tripoli, Northern Lebanon. El-Mina occupies the coastal location of the old Phoenician city of Tripolis. It acts as the Lebanon's second-largest city, situated 5 km to the east.
The walled Nahr Abu Ali at Tripoli. Tripoli (/ ˈ t r ɪ p əl i / TRIP-əl-ee; Arabic: طَرَابُلُس, ALA-LC: Ṭarābulus, [1] pronounced [tˤaˈraːbulus] ⓘ; Lebanese Arabic: طرابلس, romanized: Ṭrāblus, locally [ˈtˤrɔːblɪs]; see below) is the largest and most important city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. [2]
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.
Hemmed in between sea and mountain, the sahil, as it is called in Lebanon, is widest in the north near Tripoli, where it is only 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) wide. [1] A few kilometers south at Juniyah the approximately 1.5-kilometer-wide plain is succeeded by foothills that rise steeply to 750 metres (2,460 ft) within 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) from ...
The California Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison also known as Tehachapi State Prison, is in the area. Edwards Air Force Base lies 40 miles (64 km) to the east. The Tehachapi area has been a center for renewable wind energy, containing 4,531 turbines that produce 3,200 megawatts of electricity as of 2019.