Population: 3 677 780 hab.
Density: 353.63 hab. /km2
Surface: 10 400 km2
Capital: Beirut
Principal cities: Tripoli, Zahlé, Saïda, The Tyne
Climax and principal assembly lines: 3083m/Qurmat have-Sawad
Language official: Arab
Spoken language: Arab
Currency: Lebanese Livre
Statute: Republic
Close countries: Syria, Israel
Principal rivers: Qadisha
Seas: The Mediterranean
Precipitations in Lebanon: they do not exceed 635 mm in the plain of Bekaa, but reach 889 mm along the coast and 1 270 mm on the Western slope of the chain of Lebanon. The dry season extends between April and October
The river (Qadisha): Qadisha, one of the deepest valleys of Lebanon. At the bottom of this wild valley Nahr Qadisha runs which takes its source in a cave with the feet of the Cedars of Lebanon, surmounted by the "roof" of the country, Qornet are -Saouda. The word Qadisha comes from a Semitic root meaning "holy" and "Wadi Qadisha" means the "Holy Valley". With many caves and rock shelters inhabited from thousand-year-old IIIème to the Roman time, this valley is strewn with vaults, hermitages and rupestral monasteries. There, of the generations of monks of hermits, ascetics and anchorites found asylum since the High Age Means.
Alexandre, Jean-Baptiste and Nicolas of the college Jean
Cocteau in Maisons-Laffitte, France