Lebanon

Facts

What the numbers say about Lebanon

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 1,697× the size of Lebanon.
• Lebanon ranks 113th of 237 by population but only 168th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 610 people per km², Lebanon is the 6th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 34°N is drawn about 1.5× too large in area, so Lebanon looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Lebanon's main territory stretches about 181 km north to south and 139 km east to west.
• Our measured 10,000 km² is 4.3% below Wikidata's official figure of 10,500 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Lebanon measures up

Lebanon holds 0.0% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Western Asia it is the 15th largest of 19.

Where Lebanon sits

• Lebanon's centre lies at 33.9°N, 35.9°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 3,770 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 33°N to 35°N, about 180 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Lebanon had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Lebanon would have 12.5 million people. It has 6.1 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Lebanon would have 37,000 people. It has 6.1 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 724,000.

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