Geography Of Lebanon

Location	Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria
Geographic coordinates	33 50 N, 35 50 E
Map references	middle_east
Area	total: 10,400 sq km water: 170 sq km land: 10,230 sq km
Area comparative	about 0.7 times the size of Connecticut
Land boundaries	total: 454 km border countries: Israel 79 km, Syria 375 km
Coastline	225 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 12 nm
Climate	Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; Lebanon mountains experience heavy winter snows
Terrain	narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Mediterranean Sea 0 m highest point: Qurnat as Sawda' 3,088 m
Natural resources	limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land
Land use	arable land: 16.62% permanent crops: 13.98% other: 69.4% (2001)
Irrigated land	1,200 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards	dust storms, sandstorms
Environment - current issues	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, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Environmental Modification, Marine Life Conservation
Geography note	Nahr el Litani 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

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This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.

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Geography Of Lebanon