The Sidon District () is a district within the South Governorate of Lebanon.
Municipalities The following 53 municipalities are all located in the Sidon District: Aabra Al-Aaddoussiyah Aadloun Aanqoun Aaqtanit Ain ad-Delb Ansariyah Arab aj-Jall Arzay Al-Babliyah Al-Baisariyah Banaafoul Barti Bqosta Al-Bramiyah Darb as-Sim Al-Ghassaniyah Al-Ghaziyah Al-Hajjah Haret Saida Al-Helaliyah Irkay Jenjlaya Kaouthariyat as-Siyad Kfar Beit Kfar Chellal Kfar Hatta Kfar Melki Kfaraya Al-Kharayeb Khartoum Khaziz Al-Loubiyah Al-Maamriyah Maghdouché Majdelyoun Al-Marwaniyah Miye An-Najjariyah Qaqaaiyet as-Snoubar Qennarit Al-Qraiyah Al-Qunaitra As-Saksakiyah As-Salhiyah As-Sarafand Sidon Tanbourit Teffahta Tobbaya Zaghdraiya Zaita Az-Zrariyah
Oil and petroleum Sidon serves as the Mediterranean terminus of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, a long oil pipeline that pumps oil from the fields near Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia. The pipeline played an important role in the global trade of petroleum—helping with the economic development of Lebanon—as well as American and Middle Eastern political relations. At the time it was built in 1947, the project was considered ground-breaking and innovative with a maximum capacity of about . After the 1967 Six-Day War and due to constant bickering between Saudi Arabia and Syria and Lebanon over transit fees, the emergence of oil supertankers and pipeline breakdowns, the section of the line beyond Jordan ceased operation in 1976.
The city of Sidon is the site of a large-scale oil facility constituting oil-storage tanks, an oil refinery, a thermal power plant and a fuel port. During the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli invasions, the site was bombarded several times either by Israeli war-planes or by Palestinian militia groups which lead eventually to the closure of the site. The oil tank and the refinery are in severe conditions but are now undergoing a massive rehabilitation plan put down by the Ministry of Power and Water Resources, as well as those in Tripoli in the north, to store Lebanon's future oil and natural gas supplies recently discovered offshore. For now, the facilities that still work on the site are the thermal power plant and the fuel port, which the state began to use to import oil after the pipeline ceased work in the 1970s.
Demographics According to registered voters in 2014:
Year Christians Muslims Druze Total Greek Catholics Maronites Other Christians Total Shias Sunnis Alawites Druze2014https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صيدا-قرى/المذاهب/https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صيدا-مدينة/المذاهب/ 2022
Number of registered voters (21+ years old) over the years. +YearsWomenMenTotalGrowth (%)200975,56971,335146,904201077,073 73,120 150,193 +2.19 201177,963 74,573 152,536 +1.54% 201279,285 76,119 155,404 +1.85% 201381,475 77,981 159,456 2.54% 201482,968 79,611 162,579 +1.92% 201584,645 81,350 165,995 +2.06% 201686,062 83,543 169,605 +2.13% 201787,624 85,062 172,686 +1.78% 201889,724 86,514 176,238 +2.02% 201991,551 87,987 179,538 +1.84% 202093,494 89,467 182,961 +1.87% 202195,368 91,140 186,508 +1.90% 202297,353 92,693 190,046 +1.86% 202398,487 93,644 192,131 +1.09% 202499,955 95,037 194,992 +1.47% 2025101,404 96,173 197,577 +1.31% 2026 200,467 +1.44% Source: DGCS
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