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 Geography of Lebanon
Lebanon is today a small republic stretching approximately 160 kilometers along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea with a total area of 10,452 kilometers square and an estimated population of 3,874,050 according to an independent 2006 estimate, including Palestinian refugees and foreign workers, mainly Syrian. Lebanese territory is dominated mostly by mountains which consist of the parallel ranges of the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon. Between the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon ranges lies the valley of Biqa'. Lebanon is bounded on the north by the Eleutherus River (Nahr al-Kabir), on the east by the Anti-Lebanon mountains, both of which they share with what is present-day Syria. It is also bounded on the west by the Mediterranean Sea and on the south by the highlands of the Galilee, or what is today Occupied Palestine (Israel). Beirut, the capital of present-day Lebanon, its largest city and principal port, is located almost mid-way on the......

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