Governorates of Lebanon

Lebanon is divided into nine governorates (Arabic: ).

Each governorate is headed by a governor (Arabic: ).

Governorate Arabic name Capital cityISO codeArea (km2)Population (2022)Density (per km2)Current governor Akkar HalbaLB-AK 776 432,000557Imad Labaki Baalbek-Hermel BaalbekLB-BH 3,009 472,000157Bashir Khodr Beirut BeirutLB-BA 18 419,00023,278Marwan Abboud Beqaa ZahlehLB-BI 1,271 540,000425Kamal Abou Jaoudeh Keserwan-Jbeil Jounieh 722 300,000415Pauline Deeb Mount Lebanon BaabdaLB-JL 1,238 1,531,0001,237Charbel Tabet Nabatieh NabatiyeLB-NA 1,058 391,000370Mahmoud Al-Mawla North TripoliLB-AS 1,205 803,000666Ramzi Nohra South SidonLB-JA 943 602,000638Mansour Daou

All of the governorates except for Beirut and Akkar are divided into districts, which are further subdivided into municipalities.

The newest governorate is Keserwan-Jbeil, which was gazetted on 7 September 2017 but whose first governor, Pauline Deeb, was not appointed until 2020. Implementation of the next most recently created governorates, Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel, also remains ongoing since the appointment of their first governors in 2014.

See also Politics of Lebanon

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