LEBANON
(Lebanese Republic)

Capital: Beirut (Байрут)

Flag: the national flag entered in 1943 consists of two horizontal red strips divided by a white strip which is twice wider; in the center, in green, a cedar tree.

ГИМН: Kulluna lil watan lil'ula lil'alam (All of Us for the Country, Glory, Flag).

MONETARY BYULLET: Lebanese pound or heavy rain of libanaise (ll) - paper currency of 100 piastres. there are coins of 1, 2+1/2, 5, 10, 25 and 50 piastres and 1 Lebanese pound and also marks 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 1000 and 10000 of Lebanese pounds. ll1 = $0,00066 (or $1 = 11507,5) as of 2005.

WEIGHT AND MEASURES: the metric system is the legal standard, but traditional scales and measures are still used.

HOLIDAYS: New year, on January 1; Day of League of Arab States, on March 22; Independence Day, on November 22; Day of evacuation, on December 31. Christian religious holidays include Saint Maron's Holiday, on February 9; Good Friday; Easter Monday; Rise; Assumption, on August 15; All Saints' Day, on November 1; and Christmas, on December 25. Muslim religious holidays include "Ides al-Fitr", "Eid al-Adha" and Milad a-Nabi.

TIME: 14:00 - midday.

ARRANGEMENT, SIZE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

It is located on east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon has the area of 10 400 sq.km (4,015 quarter. Miles), 217 km long (135 miles) не-sw and 56 km (35 miles). It borders on Russians and е Syria, across Israel and across the Mediterranean Sea, with a total length of border of 679 km (422 miles) from which 225 km (140 miles) are the coastline. Rather, the space occupied by Lebanon is about three quarters of the State of Connecticut.

Lebanon today - Great Lebanon (Great Lebanon) created by France in September, 1920 which includes the traditional territory of the mountain Lebanon - an internal part of a coastal strip from Shayda (Sidon) to Tarabul (Tripoli) - some coastal cities and areas such as Beirut and Tarabul (Tripoli), and Beqaa Valley (Bika) in the east. Since January, 1988 more than two thirds of the territory were under foreign military occupation. In May, 2000 the Israeli troops left a strip on 1000 sq.km (400 quarter. Miles) along the Israeli border. The Syrian troops which held northern Lebanon and Beqaa Valley since 1976 both the Western Beirut and a shore Beirut-Shayda since February, 1987, left in April, 2005.
The Lebanese capital of Beirut is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

TOPOGRAPHY

The name of the country comes from a name Jebel Libnan which is the Arab name for the mountain Lebanon stretching from the northeast to the southwest through the center of the country. This area strong; there is a rise from sea level to the parallel ridge about 2000-3000 m (6 600-9800 feet) less than on 40 km (25 miles), and the heavy rain of winter rains created a set of deep cracks and valleys in stones.