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Lebanon Country Data

Area: total: 10,400 sq km
land: 10,230 sq km
water: 170 sq km

Climate: Mediterranean mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers Lebanon mountains experience heavy winter snows

Terrain: narrow coastal plain El Beqaa [Bekaa Valley] separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains

Natural resources: limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land

Population: 3,971,941 [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 26% [male 526,994/female 505,894]
15-64 years: 66.8% [male 1,275,021/female 1,380,131]
65 years and over: 7.1% [male 128,002/female 155,899] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Lebanese [singular and plural]
adjective: Lebanese

Ethnic groups: Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1%
note: many Christian Lebanese do not identify themselves as Arab but rather as descendents of the ancient Canaanites and prefer to be called Phoenicians

Languages: Arabic [official], French, English, Armenian

Capital: name: Beirut
geographic coordinates: 33 52 N, 35 30 E
time difference: UTC+2 [7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time]
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March ends last Sunday in October

National holiday: Independence Day, 22 November [1943]

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 5.1%
industry: 19%
services: 75.9% [2007 est.]

Labor force: 1.5 million
note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers [2005 est.]

Budget: revenues: $6.472 billion
expenditures: $8.35 billion [2007 est.]

Agriculture - products: citrus, grapes, tomatoes, apples, vegetables, potatoes, olives, tobacco sheep, goats

Industries: banking, tourism, food processing, wine, jewelry, cement, textiles, mineral and chemical products, wood and furniture products, oil refining, metal fabricating

Exports: $3.445 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Exports - commodities: authentic jewelry, inorganic chemicals, miscellaneous consumer goods, fruit and vegetables, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, paper

Exports - partners: Syria 27.1%, UAE 12.2%, Switzerland 6.1%, Saudi Arabia 5.8%, Turkey 4.6% [2006]

Imports: $10.75 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Imports - commodities: petroleum products, cars, medicinal products, clothing, meat and live animals, consumer goods, paper, textile fabrics, tobacco, electrical machinery

Imports - partners: Syria 11.6%, Italy 9.7%, US 9.3%, France 7.7%, Germany 6%, China 5%, Saudi Arabia 4.7% [2006]

Currency (code): Lebanese pound [LBP]

Exchange rates: Lebanese pounds per US dollar - 1,507.5 [2007], 1,507.5 [2006], 1,507.5 [2005], 1,507.5 [2004], 1,507.5 [2003]

Airports: 7 [2007]

Railways: total: 401 km
standard gauge: 319 km 1.435 m
narrow gauge: 82 km 1.050 m
note: rail system became unusable because of damage done during fighting in the 1980s and in 2006 [2006]

Merchant marine: total: 35 ships [1000 GRT or over] 132,871 GRT/140,011 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 3, cargo 14, livestock carrier 12, passenger/cargo 1, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 2, vehicle carrier 2
foreign-owned: 3 [Greece 2, Syria 1]
registered in other countries: 55 [Antigua and Barbuda 1, Barbados 1, Cambodia 7, Comoros 5, Cyprus 1, Dominica 1, Egypt 1, Georgia 3, Honduras 2, Hong Kong 1, North Korea 3, Liberia 2, Malta 12, Mongolia 1, Panama 3, St Vincent and The Grenadines 7, Syria 4, unknown 2] [2007]

Ports and terminals: Beirut, Tripoli

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