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1 day ago · Lebanon is located in West Asia between latitudes 33° and 35° N and longitudes 35° and 37° E. Its land straddles the "northwest of the Arabian Plate ". [171] The country's surface area is 10,452 square kilometres (4,036 sq mi) of which 10,230 square kilometres (3,950 sq mi) is land.
1 day ago · Lebanon, country consisting of a narrow strip of territory on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It was home to ancient Phoenician settlements at sites that continued to be important centers of trade into the modern era. Lebanon became independent in 1943 with Beirut as its capital.
2 days ago · Lebanon's Deputy Prime Minister, Saade Chami, announced on April 4 that both the state and the Central Bank of Lebanon have declared bankruptcy.This development is set to trigger a significant restructuring within the country's banking sector, potentially leading to mergers among financial institutions.
1 day ago · Unlike Amal, whose support is predominantly in Lebanon's south, Hezbollah maintains broad-based support in all three areas of Lebanon with a majority Shia Muslim population: in the south, in Beirut and its surrounding area, and in the northern Beqaa valley and Hirmil region.
1 day ago · Middle East, the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, encompassing at least the Arabian Peninsula and, by some definitions, Iran, North Africa, and sometimes beyond. Learn more about the history of the classification of the region in this article.
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5 days ago · It is also higher than the 2002-2023 average of $6.42 billion. According to our calculations, Lebanon will have received 29 percent of its 2023 GDP in remittances from abroad. This indicator accounts for calculation based on the latest official World Bank figure for 2021 (GDP of $23.59 billion in 2023, compared with $23.13 billion in 2021).
Hezbollah was based in the predominately Shiʿi areas of the Biqāʿ Valley, southern Lebanon, and southern Beirut. It coordinated its efforts closely with Iran, from which it acquired substantial logistical support, and drew its manpower largely from disaffected younger, more radical members of Amal. Throughout the 1980s Hezbollah engaged in ...
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