The population of Lebanon as of July 2006 was 3,874,050. Lebanon is located in the Middle Eastern Asia. It is surrounded by Syria, Jordan, Israel and the Mediterranean Sea. The area is a total of 10,452 sq km, 10,20 sq km land and 170 sq km water. The land boundary is a total of 454 km. The coastline is a total of 210 km. The shoreline, at 210km, mostly consists of rocks towards the north and sand at the south, with some headlands, bays and offshore islands. The costal plain is surrounded by sea and mountains, it is narrow at 2 or 3 km wide. There are no artificial lakes or reservoirs, no canals, no islands, no deserts and no caves. Their lake is called Lac du Qaraoun, their rivers are Litani, Barouk, Orontes. Lebnonn’s mountains are Qornet es Saouda (3088 m), Qornet el-Asharah (2903m), Jebel Sannîn (2548m). Mount Labanon are the West mountains, Anti Lebanon are the East mountains.



Current Environment Issues of 2006:
-deforestation
-soil erosion
-desertification
-air pollution (in Beirut from vehicular traffic an burning of industrial wastes)
-pollution of costal waters from raw suage and oil spills



Environment internatonal agreements are Biodeversity, Climate Change, Desertificattion, hazardous Wasates, Law of the Sea, Marine dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone LayerProtection, Ship pollution, Wetlands





The Mediterranean climate is mild to cool, wet winters with hot , dry summers. Lebanon’s mountains have heavy winter snows. It’s widest part is 88 kilometers, and it’s narrowest part is 32 kilometers wide. The average width is 56 kilometers wide. Their natural hazzards are dust storms and sand storms.

Resource and land use as of 2006:
-arable land- 21%
-permanent crops- 9%
-permanent pastures- 1%
-forest and woodland- 8%
-other- 61%