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Today the Maronites are believed to compose about 26% of the population, concentrated mainly in the province of Mount Lebanon and Eastern Beirut (Greater Beirut). The second largest Christian group is the Eastern Orthodox that constitute at least 9% [26] of the population.
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / ⓘ, bay-ROOT; [4] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, [5] which makes it the fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
Districts of Lebanon. 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.
This is a list of cities in the Levant with a population of 500,000 or more. For the purposes of this list, the region includes the Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and the Hatay Province of Turkey. All figures refer to the metropolitan area if applicable.
When civil war raged in Lebanon from 1975 to 1990, Mount Lebanon became a haven for people fleeing violence in Beirut, the capital city. The three-story building had been completely demolished in ...
The inefficiency of the government, as well as the corruption inside of the waste management company Sukleen in charge of managing the garbage in Lebanon, have resulted in piles of garbage blocking streets in Mount Lebanon and Beirut. [195] Mount Lebanon is a mountain range in Lebanon. It averages above 2,500 m (8,200 ft) in elevation.
The political shake-up in Lebanon — which operates a sectarian power-sharing system — comes in the wake of Hezbollah's costly conflict with Israel.. The group had been exchanging strikes with ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fears grew across Lebanon on Monday after Israel launched a strike on a residential building in central Beirut, marking a fresh escalation in a devastating bombing campaign ...