Aqoura
Sign in to saveAaqoura (, also spelled "Akoura") is a mountainous village in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon, 68 kilometers north of Beirut. Aaqoura has an average elevation of 1,600 meters above sea level (between 1000 and 2189 m) and a total land area of around 140 square kilometers and it has 14 villages around its borders. It is the largest town by land size in Mount Lebanon and the second largest in Lebanon. By voting power, it is the third largest town in the Jbeil District after the city of Jbeil Byblos and Qartaba.
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- human settlement
- Country
- Lebanon
- Located in
- Jbeil District
- Area
- 140
- Elevation
- 1450
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Aaqoura (, also spelled "Akoura") is a mountainous village in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon, 68 kilometers north of Beirut. Aaqoura has an average elevation of 1,600 meters above sea level (between 1000 and 2189 m) and a total land area of around 140 square kilometers and it has 14 villages around its borders. It is the largest town by land size in Mount Lebanon and the second largest in Lebanon. By voting power, it is the third largest town in the Jbeil District after the city of Jbeil Byblos and Qartaba.
==Demographics==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aqoura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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