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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 ". [ 173] 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 is one of the most densely populated countries in the Mediterranean area and has a high rate of literacy. Notwithstanding its meagre natural resources, Lebanon long managed to serve as a busy commercial and cultural centre for the Middle East. This outward image of vitality and growth nevertheless disguised serious problems.
1 day ago · The change in usage began to evolve prior to World War II and tended to be confirmed during that war, when the term Middle East was given to the British military command in Egypt. By the mid-20th century a common definition of the Middle East encompassed the states or territories of Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Israel, the West ...
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1 day ago · Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology][ note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East ...
2 days ago · Imran Riza, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon speaks to the press (via video). Resources needed. The senior humanitarian official also emphasized that despite limited funding – only about 25 percent of what is needed – UN and aid partners reached about one million people in need so far this year, including at least 180,000 people affected by the conflict in southern Lebanon.
2 days ago · The Israel-Hamas war — in maps and ... Israeli air strike kills 10 in Lebanon. ... the US and Arab states see as the best way of avoiding a regional war in the Middle East — was “still in ...
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1 day ago · Lebanon’s health ministry said early Wednesday that Israeli strikes in the country’s east killed one person and wounded 20 others, hours after it said four people were killed in the south. The ...
