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Geography
Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria
33 50 N, 35 50 E
Area: 
total: 10,400 sq km
country comparison to the world: 
169
land: 10,230 sq km
water: 170 sq km
about 0.7 times the size of Connecticut
total: 454 km
border countries: Israel 79 km, Syria 375 km
225 km
territorial sea: 12 nm
Current Weather
Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; Lebanon mountains experience heavy winter snows
narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains
lowest point: Mediterranean Sea 0 m
highest point: Qornet es Saouda 3,088 m
limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land
arable land: 16.35%
permanent crops: 13.75%
other: 69.9% (2005)
1,040 sq km (2003)
4.8 cu km (1997)
total: 1.38 cu km/yr (33%/1%/67%)
per capita: 385 cu m/yr (2000)
dust storms, sandstorms
deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; air pollution in Beirut from vehicular traffic and the burning of industrial wastes; pollution of coastal waters from raw sewage and oil spills
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Environmental Modification, Marine Life Conservation
Nahr el Litani is the only major river in Near East not crossing an international boundary; rugged terrain historically helped isolate, protect, and develop numerous factional groups based on religion, clan, and ethnicity
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