Governorates of Lebanon First-level administrative division of Lebanon
Lebanon is divided into nine governorates (Arabic: muhafazah ).
Each governorate is headed by a governor (Arabic: muhafiz ).
Governorate Arabic name Capital City
ISO code
Area (km2 )[ 1]
Population (2022)[ 2]
Density
(per km2 )
Current governor
Akkar عكار Halba
LB-AK
776
432,000
557
Imad Labaki
Baalbek-Hermel بعلبك - الهرمل Baalbek
LB-BH
3,009
472,000
157
Bashir Khodr
Beirut بيروت Beirut
LB-BA
18
419,000
23,278
Marwan Abboud
Beqaa البقاع Zahleh
LB-BI
1,271
540,000
425
Kamal Abou Jaoudeh
Keserwan-Jbeil كسروان - جبيل Jounieh
— N/a
722
300,000
415
Pauline Deeb
Mount Lebanon جبل لبنان Baabda
LB-JL
1,238
1,531,000
1,237
Charbel Tabet
Nabatieh النبطية Nabatiye
LB-NA
1,058
391,000
370
Mahmoud Al-Mawla
North الشمال Tripoli
LB-AS
1,205
803,000
666
Ramzi Nohra
South الجنوب Sidon
LB-JA
943
602,000
638
Mansour 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[ 3] [ 4] but whose first governor, Pauline Deeb, was not appointed until 2020.[ 5] Implementation of the next most recently created governorates, Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel, also remains ongoing since the appointment of their first governors in 2014.[ 6]