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Nabatieh Governorate

governorate of Lebanon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ458417 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nabatieh Governorate (Arabic: محافظة النبطية, Muḥāfaẓat an-Nabaṭiyyah) is one of the nine governorates of Lebanon. The area of this governorate is 1,058 km2. The capital is Nabatieh.

Demographics

According to registered voters in 2014:

Districts

The governorate is divided into four districts (Aqdiya, singular qadaa) containing 130 municipalities.

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“Nabatieh Governorate” enters the record as governorate of Lebanon. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nabatieh, Governorate and governorate can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nabatieh Governorate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.