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INDENTITY CARD

Administrative countdown: Lebanon is divided into six gouvernorats:Beyrouth(1 150 000 hab.), the capital, Mount-Lebanon (1 100 000 hab, Lebanon-North (350 000 hab.), capital Tripoli, Lebanon sud(250 000 hab.), capital Saïda, Nabatiye (50 000 hab.) Bekaa (200 000 hab.), capital Zahlé.

Population: 3,55 million inhabitants approximately if one counts the refugees and resident foreign, is a density of 340 hab./km2. The Lebanese diaspora is evaluated to 13 million people.
Religion: The constitution recognizes 17 different confessions. One estimates in a relatively approximate way that the country includes/ 52 % of Moslems, 8 % of Druses and 40 % of Christians.
Capital: Beirut, with 1,5 million inhabitants.
Principal cities: Tripoli, 200 000 inhabitants; Saïda, 100 000 inhabitants; Tyr, 70 000 inhabitants; Zahlé, 30 000 inhabitants.
Official language: Arabic, but one very frequently speaks English and French.
Institutions: Parliamentary republic.

DATA GEOGRAPHIQUES

Situation: In the center of the Eastern gulf of the Mediterranean.
Surface and borders: 10 452 km. the country are limited to north and the east by Syria along a border of 278 km, to the south by Israel with which it shares a border of 79 km; it is bordered in the west by 200 km of coasts. Lebanon is to approximately 4 000 km of Paris.
Relief: Lebanon is divided into four great geographical sets which follow one another of west is parallel to the Mediterranean a narrow littoral plain except in the extreme north, Beirut and the extreme south. Intensely development, it concentrates the major part of the population,

The chain of the Lebanon mount culminates to 3 090 m altitude, goes down soft inclined towards the sea and abruptly towards Bekaa. It plays a decisive role in the Lebanese climate.

Bekaa, interior plain to 900 m of altitude on average, crossed by two rivers, Litani and Oronte. The agricultural activity is significant there.

Chains of the Anti Lebanon and Hermon (jebel Al-Sheik) whose peaks mark the border with Syria. This last zone is slightly populated.

*** Come To visit this site which recalls the past of a Pleine city with charm of the Dimension of Azure, where I follow my Occupation of Municipal Police officer.

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TOURIST INFORMATION
The Lebanese tourist bureaus have just reopened to face an increasing request of the foreign travellers. They have a documentation and the information will give you to facilitate your stay.
In Beirut: CNTL (the national Council of Lebanese tourism), Tel. : (01) 344.940, fax: (01) 343.279.
In Tripoli: Tel. : (06) 601.600 and 433.590.
In Zahlé: Tel. : (08) 807.480 and 804.145.

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