Governorates of Lebanon
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Lebanon is divided into nine governorates (Arabic: Script error: No such module "Lang".).
Each governorate is headed by a governor (Arabic: Script error: No such module "Lang".).
| Governorate | Arabic name | Capital City | ISO code | Area (km2)[1] | Population (2022)[2] | Density
(per km2) |
Current governor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akkar | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Halba | LB-AK | 776 | 432,000 | 557 | Imad Labaki |
| Baalbek-Hermel | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Baalbek | LB-BH | 3,009 | 472,000 | 157 | Bashir Khodr |
| Beirut | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Beirut | LB-BA | 18 | 419,000 | 23,278 | Marwan Abboud |
| Beqaa | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Zahleh | LB-BI | 1,271 | 540,000 | 425 | Kamal Abou Jaoudeh |
| Keserwan-Jbeil | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Jounieh | — | 722 | 300,000 | 415 | Pauline Deeb |
| Mount Lebanon | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Baabda | LB-JL | 1,238 | 1,531,000 | 1,237 | Charbel Tabet |
| Nabatieh | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Nabatiye | LB-NA | 1,058 | 391,000 | 370 | Mahmoud Al-Mawla |
| North | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Tripoli | LB-AS | 1,205 | 803,000 | 666 | Ramzi Nohra |
| South | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Sidon | LB-JA | 943 | 602,000 | 638 | Mansour Daou |
All of the governorates except for Beirut and Akkar are divided into districts, which are further subdivided into municipalities.
The newest governorate is Keserwan-Jbeil, which was gazetted on 7 September 2017[3][4] but whose first governor, Pauline Deeb, was not appointed until 2020.[5] Implementation of the next most recently created governorates, Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel, also remains ongoing since the appointment of their first governors in 2014.[6]
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