Map of Lebanon

Lebanon is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 33.8° N, 35.8° E. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Israel and Syria — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Lebanon is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Lebanon shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Lebanon covers about 10,452 km² (4,036 sq mi). That makes it the 163rd-largest country in the world by area and the 43rd-largest in Asia, larger by area than 6 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 5,490,000, the 118th-largest in the world and the 36th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Lebanon has an average population density of about 525 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 36th by population and 43rd by area.

The seat of government is Beirut, and the official currency is the Lebanese pound (LBP, ل.ل), and the main official languages are Arabic and French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Lebanon carries the ISO country codes LB and LBN, dials on the international calling code +961 and uses the .lb internet domain.

Lebanon shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Syria (capital Damascus, about 25,620,000 people) and Israel (capital Jerusalem, about 10,134,800 people).

By area, Lebanon is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 33.8° N, 35.8° E and opens at zoom level 8, framing Lebanon within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Beirut. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Lebanon lies about 3,755 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Lebanon keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Lebanese pound (LBP, ل.ل).

The official languages are Arabic and French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +961 and websites commonly use the .lb internet domain.

In short, Lebanon is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Beirut. Lebanon has a population of about 5,490,000 and covers around 10,452 km² (4,036 sq mi), ranking it 118th in the world by population and 163rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Lebanon.

The flag of Lebanon is composed of three horizontal bands of red, white and red. The white band is twice the height of the red bands and bears a green Lebanese Cedar tree at its center.

The flag of Lebanon is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.