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Land and Resources:
Lebanon is a small country of only 10,452 sq km (4,036
sq mi); from north to south it extends 217 km (135 mi)
and from east to west it spans 80 km (50 mi) at its
widest point. The country is bounded by Syria on both
the north and east and by Israel on the south. Lebanon’s
landforms fall into four parallel belts that run from
northeast to southwest: a narrow coastal plain along
the Mediterranean shore; the massive Lebanon Mountains
(often referred to locally as Mount Lebanon) that rise
steeply from the plain to dominate the entire country
before dropping eastward; a fertile intermontane (between-mountain)
basin called the Bekáa Valley (Al Biqa’);
and the ridges of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, shared
with Syria. Lebanon’s highest peaks are Qurnat
as Sawda’ (3,088 m/10,131 ft) in the country’s
north, and volcanic Mount Hermon (2,814 m/9,232 ft)
at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanons. The country’s
name comes from the old Semitic word laban, meaning
“white,” which refers to the heavy snow
in the mountains.
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