!!!Lebanon: Geography
||Location|Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria
||Geographic Coordinates|33 50 N, 35 50 E[{GoogleMap location='33.833332,35.833332' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''10,400 sq km\\''land: ''10,230 sq km\\''water: ''170 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 10400\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 10452\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 10400\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 10400\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 10452\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 10452''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''454 km\\''border countries: ''Israel 79 km, Syria 375 km
||Coastline|225 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Mediterranean Sea 0 m\\''highest point: ''Qornet es Saouda 3,088 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Qurnat as Sawda' 3088 m; Mount Hermon 2814 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Machraa Tourmous 2932 m; Dahr Qloussia 2845 m; Harf Aïn el Baïda 2839 m; Mount Hermon 2814 m; Mashraa el Barbris 2811 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Terrain|narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains
||Natural Hazards|dust storms, sandstorms
||Natural Resource|limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land
||Land Use|''arable land: ''10.72%\\''permanent crops: ''12.06%\\''other: ''77.22% (2011)
||Climate|Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; Lebanon mountains experience heavy winter snows
||Irrigated Land|1,040 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|4.5 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; air pollution in Beirut from vehicular traffic and the burning of industrial wastes; pollution of coastal waters from raw sewage and oil spills
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''Environmental Modification, Marine Life Conservation
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Beirut; Trablous; Sayda; Sur; Juniyah\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Beirut; Ra’s Bayrut; Tripoli; Sidon; Tyre\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/Lebanon/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|smallest country in continental Asia; Nahr el Litani is the only major river in Near East not crossing an international boundary; rugged terrain historically helped isolate, protect, and develop numerous factional groups based on religion, clan, and ethnicity