Beirut
Beirut is the capital city of Lebanon with a population of approximately 2.1 million people in its metropolitan area. The city is on a relatively small headland jutting into the east Mediterranean.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Ashrafieh
Ashrafieh is in Beirut, it is one of Beirut's oldest and most charming districts and is considered an important tourist outlet in Beirut where a great number of restaurants, coffee shops and nightclubs are located.Downtown Beirut
Downtown Beirut is the central district of Beirut, with its outdoor cafes restaurants and high end designer stores.Hamra
Hamra is a district in Beirut. Prior to 1975, Hamra Street was referred to as Beirut's "Champs Elysées" as it was frequented by tourists all year round.Destinations
Ain El Mraiseh
Ain El Mraisseh is in Beirut, along Beirut's coastal Corniche, which stretches for several kilometers.Verdun
Photo: A.K.Khalifeh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Verdun is in Beirut. Verdun is one of Beirut's most prestigious residential neighborhoods where also some of the most important fashion boutiques are found.
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Notable Places in the Area
National Museum of Beirut
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The National Museum of Beirut is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon.
Horsh Beirut
Horsh Beirut is an urban park in the heart of the capital of Lebanon, Beirut.Embassy of the France
The French Embassy, Beirut is the chief diplomatic mission of France in Lebanon.Localities in the Area
Burj Hammoud
Photo: Serouj, Public domain.
Bourj Hammoud is a town and municipality in Lebanon located north-east of the capital Beirut, in the Matn District, and is part of Greater Beirut.
Baabda
Baabda is the capital city of Baabda District as well as the capital of Mount Lebanon Governorate, western Lebanon.Beirut
- Type: City with 1,250,000 residents
- Description: capital and largest city of Lebanon
- Categories: capital city, big city, administrative territorial entity and locality
- Location: Beirut Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.8671° or 33° 52' 2" northLongitude
35.496° or 35° 29' 46" eastPopulation
1,250,000Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)Open Location Code
8G5QVF8W+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 289346590OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
276781Wikidata ID
Q3820Beirut Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Birut
- Abkhazian: Беирут
- Achinese: Bairut
- Achinese: Beirut
- Afar: Beyrut
- Afrikaans: Beiroet
- Albanian: Beirut
- Albanian: Bejrut
- Albanian: Bejruti
- Amharic: ቤይሩት
- Arabic: Beirut
- Arabic: بيروت
- Arabic: بَيْرُوت
- Aragonese: Beirut
- Armenian: Բեյրութ
- Armenian: Բեյրութ
- Armenian: Պէյրութ
- Assamese: বেইৰুট
- Assamese: বেইৰুত
- Asturian: Beirut
- Azerbaijani: Beyrut
- Balinese: Beirut
- Bashkir: Бәйрүт
- Basque: Beirut
- Belarusian: Бейрут
- Belarusian: Бэйрут
- Bengali: বৈরুত
- Bosnian: Bejrut
- Breton: Beirout
- Bulgarian: Бейрут
- Burmese: ဘေရွတ်မြို့
- Catalan: Beirut
- Cebuano: Beirut
- Central Bikol: Beirut
- Central Kurdish: بەیروت
- Central Kurdish: بەیرووت
- Chechen: Бейрут
- Chinese: Beirut
- Chinese: 貝里圖斯
- Chinese: 貝魯特
- Chinese: 贝鲁特
- Chinese: 高壓行動
- Chuvash: Бейрут
- Croatian: Beirut
- Czech: Bejrút
- Danish: Beirut
- Dimli (individual language): Beyrut
- Dutch: Beiroet
- Eastern Mari: Бейрут
- Egyptian Arabic: بيروت
- English: Beyrout
- Erzya: Бейрут ош
- Esperanto: Bejruto
- Estonian: Beirut
- Extremaduran: Beirut
- Faroese: Beirut
- Fiji Hindi: Beirut
- Finnish: Beirut
- French: Beyrouth
- Gagauz: Beyrut
- Galician: Beirut
- Georgian: ბეირუთი
- German: Beirut
- German: Beyrut
- Greek: Βηρυτός
- Guarani: Beirut
- Gujarati: બેરૂત
- Haitian: Bewout
- Hakka Chinese: Beirut
- Hausa: Beirut
- Hausa: Berut
- Hawaiian: Beirut
- Hebrew: ביירות
- Hebrew: בירות
- Hindi: बेयरूत
- Hindi: बेरूत
- Hungarian: Bejrút
- Icelandic: Beirút
- Ido: Beirut
- Iloko: Beirut
- Inari Sami: Beirut
- Indonesian: Beirut
- Interlingua: Beirut
- Interlingue: Beirut
- Irish: Béiriút
- Italian: Beirut
- Japanese: ベイルート
- Javanese: Beirut
- Kabiyè: Peehiruti
- Kabyle: Birut
- Kalaallisut: Beirut
- Kannada: ಬೈರುತ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Beyrut
- Kashmiri: بیروت
- Kazakh: Бейрут
- Kirghiz: Бейрет шаары
- Kirghiz: Бейрут
- Korean: 베이루트
- Kurdish: Bêrût
- Lao: Beirut
- Latin: Berytus
- Latvian: Beirūta
- Ligurian: Beirut
- Limburgan: Beiroet
- Lithuanian: Beirutas
- Livvi: Beirut
- Lombard: Beirut
- Luxembourgish: Beirut
- Macedo-Romanian: Beirut
- Macedonian: Бејрут
- Maithili: बेरुत
- Malagasy: Beirut
- Malay: Beirut
- Malay: بيروت
- Malayalam: ബെയ്റൂത്ത്
- Malayalam: ബെയ്റൂത്ത്
- Maltese: Beirut
- Maltese: Bejrut
- Manx: Beirut
- Marathi: बैरूत
- Mazanderani: بیروت
- Min Dong Chinese: Beirut
- Min Nan Chinese: Beyrouth
- Minangkabau: Beirut
- Mingrelian: ბეირუთი
- Mirandese: Beirute
- Moksha: Бейрут ошсь
- Moksha: Бэйрут
- Mongolian: Бейрут
- Moroccan Arabic: بيروت
- Navajo: Tó Hadahadleeh
- Neapolitan: Beirut
- Nepali: बेय्रुत
- Nepali: बेरुत
- Newari: बेय्रुत
- Northern Frisian: Beirut
- Northern Luri: بیروت
- Northern Sami: Beirut
- Norwegian: Beirut
- Norwegian Bokmål: Beirut
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Beirut
- Novial: Beyrut
- Occitan (post 1500): Barut
- Occitan (post 1500): Beirot
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܒܝܪܘܬ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Berytus
- Oriya: ବିରୁଟ
- Ossetian: Бейрут
- Pampanga: Beirut
- Panjabi: ਬੇਰੂਤ
- Panjabi: ਬੈਰੂਤ
- Papiamento: Beirut
- Persian: بیروت
- Piemontese: Beirut
- Polish: Bejrut
- Portuguese: Beirute
- Pushto: بېروت
- Quechua: Beyrut
- Romanian: Beirut
- Russia Buriat: Бейрут
- Russian: Бейрут
- Russian: Вирит
- Samogitian: Beirots
- Santali: ᱵᱮᱭᱨᱩᱛ
- Sardinian: Beirut
- Saterfriesisch: Beirut
- Scots: Beirut
- Scottish Gaelic: Beirut
- Serbian: Бејрут
- Serbo-Croatian: Bejrut
- Shona: Beirut
- Sicilian: Beirut
- Silesian: Bejrut
- Sinhala: බේරුට්
- Skolt Sami: Beirut
- Slovak: Bejrút
- Slovenian: Bejrut
- Somali: Beyruut
- South Azerbaijani: بئیروت
- South Azerbaijani: بیروت
- Spanish: Beirut
- Swahili: Beirut
- Swedish: Beirut
- Swiss German: Beirut
- Tagalog: Beirut
- Tajik: Байрут
- Tajik: Бейрут
- Talysh: Beyrut
- Tamil: பெய்ரூத்
- Tamil: பேய்ருட்
- Tamil: பைறூத்து
- Tatar: Бәйрут
- Telugu: బేరూత్
- Tetum: Beirute
- Thai: เบรุต
- Tibetan: པེ་རུ་ཐེ།
- Tosk Albanian: Beirut
- Turkish: Beyrut
- Turkmen: Beýrut
- Udmurt: Бейрут
- Uighur: بېيرۇت
- Uighur: بەيرۇت
- Ukrainian: Бейрут
- Upper Sorbian: Beirut
- Urdu: بیروت
- Uzbek: Bayrut
- Venetian: Beirut
- Veps: Beirut
- Vietnamese: Beirut
- Vlax Romani: Beirut
- Volapük: Bäyrut
- Võro: Beirut
- Waray (Philippines): Beirut
- Welsh: Beirut
- Western Armenian: Պէյրութ
- Western Frisian: Beirût
- Western Panjabi: بیروت
- Wu Chinese: 贝鲁特
- Yakut: Бейрут
- Yiddish: ביירוט
- Yoruba: Beirut
- Yue Chinese: 貝魯特
- Bayrūt
- Beiroūt
- בעירוט
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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 Wikivoyage page Beirut. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.