Mount Lebanon
Mount Lebanon is a mountain range in Lebanon. It is about 170 km long and averages above 2,500 m in elevation, with its peak at 3,088 m. The range provides a typical alpine climate year-round.Mount Lebanon is well-known for its snow-covered mountains, home to surviving Lebanese cedar forests and diverse high-altitude flora and fauna.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Qurnat as Sawda'
Photo: Erwin Franzen, Public domain.
Qurnat as Sawdā is the highest point in Lebanon and the Levant, at 3,088 m above sea level.
Localities in the Area
Bekaa Kafra
Photo: Potatoes8895, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bekaa Kafra is a Lebanese village located in the Bsharri District in Northern Lebanon.
Mount Lebanon
- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 2,953 metres
- Description: mountain range in Lebanon
- Category: landform
- Location: North Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.29° or 34° 17' 24" northLongitude
36.092° or 36° 5' 31" eastElevation
2,953 metres (9,688 feet)Open Location Code
8G6R73QR+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 5202433527OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=mountain_rangeGeoNames ID
9062341Wikidata ID
Q333711Mount Lebanon Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Bukid Libano
- Arabic: جبل لبنان
- Aragonese: Mont de Liban
- Armenian: Լիբանանի լեռնաշղթա
- Armenian: Լիբանանի լեռներ
- Azerbaijani: Cəbəl-Lübnan
- Basque: Libano mendia
- Belarusian: Ліван (хрыбет)
- Belarusian: Ліван
- Bulgarian: Ливан
- Catalan: Libanus Mons
- Catalan: Mont Líban
- Cebuano: Mohafazat Mont-Liban
- Central Kurdish: کێوی لوبنان
- Chinese: 山區
- Chinese: 黎巴嫩山
- Czech: Libanon
- Danish: Libanonbjerget
- Dutch: Libanon
- Dutch: Libanon gebergte
- Dutch: Libanongebergte
- English: Lebanon
- Esperanto: Lebanono
- Esperanto: Libanona Montaro
- Finnish: Libanoninvuoret
- French: Mont-Liban
- French: Mont Liban
- French: mont Liban
- Georgian: ლიბანის ქედი
- German: Dschabal Lubnan
- German: Libanon
- German: Libanongebirge
- German: Mont Liban
- German: Schwarzwaldgebirge
- Greek: Οροσειρά του Λιβάνου
- Greek: οροσειρά του Λιβάνου
- Greek: όρος Λίβανος
- Hebrew: אמנה
- Hebrew: הר-הלבנון
- Hebrew: הר הלבנון
- Hebrew: הרי הלבנון
- Hindi: लेबनान पर्वतमाला
- Hindi: लेबनान पर्वतों
- Hungarian: Libanon-hegység
- Hungarian: Libanoni-hegység
- Indonesian: Gunung Lebanon
- Irish: Sliabh na Liobáine
- Italian: Monte Libano
- Japanese: ジェベリ・リュブナン
- Japanese: レバノン山
- Japanese: レバノン山地
- Japanese: レバノン山脈
- Korean: 레바논산맥
- Lithuanian: Libano kalnai
- Macedonian: Либан
- Malagasy: Libàna (tendrombohitra)
- Malagasy: Tendrombohitra Libàna
- Malay: Gunung Lebanon
- Malay: Gunung Lubnan
- Norwegian: Libanonfjellene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Libanonfjellene
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Libanonfjella
- Occitan (post 1500): Mont Liban
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܛܘܪܐ ܕܠܒܢܢ
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܛܘܪܠܒܢܢ
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܛܘܪ ܠܒܢܢ
- Persian: جبل لبنان (رشتهکوه)
- Persian: جبل لبنان
- Polish: Dżabal Lubnan
- Polish: Liban
- Portuguese: Monte Líbano
- Romanian: Munții Liban
- Russian: Джебель-Лубнан
- Russian: Ливан
- Russian: Ливанский хребет
- Scots: Moont Lebanon
- Scots: Mount Lebanon
- Serbian: Либан (планина)
- Serbian: Либан
- Slovak: Libanon
- Slovenian: Džebel lubnan
- Slovenian: Gorovje Libanon
- Slovenian: Libanon
- Slovenian: Libanonsko gorovje
- Slovenian: Pogorje Libanon
- Spanish: Cordillera del Libano
- Spanish: Cordillera del Líbano
- Spanish: Monte Libano
- Spanish: Monte Líbano
- Spanish: Montes del Libano
- Spanish: Montes del Líbano
- Swahili: Milima ya Lebanoni
- Swedish: Libanonbergen
- Swedish: Libanonberget
- Swedish: Mount Lebanon
- Turkish: Lübnan Dağ Sırası
- Turkish: Lübnan Dağları
- Turkish: Lübnan Dağı
- Turkish: Lübnan Sıradağları
- Turkish: Lübnan Sıradağı
- Ukrainian: Ліван
- Ukrainian: Хребет Ліван
- Urdu: کوہ لبنان
- Uzbek: Jabal Lubnon
- Venetian: Monte Libano
- Vietnamese: Núi Liban
- Waray (Philippines): Bukid Libano
- Welsh: Mynydd Libanus
- Western Frisian: Libanon-berchtme
- Western Frisian: Libanon
- Yiddish: לבנון בארג
- Libanonvuoret
- 레바논산
Other Places Named Mount Lebanon
Localities in the Area
- CapucinesNeighbourhood
- Aayoun OrghoushVillage
- El ArzVillage
- SawaqiVillage
- Wadi en NjassVillage
Landmarks in the Area
- Er RahalPeak
- Machraa TourmousPeak
- Dahr QloussiaPeak
- The Cedars Ski Resort
- Qornet El GhrabPeak
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Mount Lebanon. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.