Lebanon
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- LB
- ISO alpha-3
- LBN
- ISO numeric
- 422
- FIPS 10-4
- LE
- GeoNames ID
- 272103
Key facts
- Capital
- Beirut
- Area
- 10,400 km²
- Population
- 6,848,925
- Currency
- Pound (LBP)
- Calling code
- +961
- Top-level domain
- .lb
- Official languages
- ar-LB,fr-LB,en,hy
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 33.83333
- Longitude
- 35.83333
- Min latitude
- 33.055580342
- Min longitude
- 35.099619988000086
- Max latitude
- 34.68754791300002
- Max longitude
- 36.604101196000045
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/LB?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 10400,
"capital": "Beirut",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "LBP",
"iso3_code": "LBN",
"iso_code": "LB",
"name": "Lebanon",
"population": 6848925
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/LB/regions/v1/cities?country=LB/v1/postal-codes?country=LB/v1/timezones?country=LB
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- لبنان
- Chinese
- 黎巴嫩
- English
- Lebanon
- French
- Liban
- German
- Libanon
- Hindi
- लेबनान
- Italian
- Libano
- Japanese
- レバノン
- Korean
- 레바논
- Portuguese
- Líbano
- Russian
- Ливан
- Spanish
- Líbano
- Total language variants
- 143
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Beirut | UTC+02:00 | UTC+03:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #### ####|####
- Pattern
^(\d{4}(\d{4})?)$
First-level administrative regions
- Beyrouth
- Mohafazat Mont-Liban
- Mohafazat Liban-Nord
- Mohafazat Béqaa
- Mohafazat Liban-Sud
- Mohafazat Aakkâr
- Mohafazat Baalbek-Hermel
- Mohafazat Nabatîyé
8 of 8 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Beirut | 1,916,100 |
| Ra’s Bayrūt | 1,251,739 |
| Tripoli | 229,398 |
| Sidon | 163,554 |
| Tyre | 135,204 |
| Aley | 130,000 |
| Nabatîyé et Tahta | 120,000 |
| Habboûch | 98,433 |
| Jounieh | 96,315 |
| Zahlé | 78,145 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 3,721
- First-level regions
- 8
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 143
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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