Blank Lebanon Map

Lebanon as a plain outline, or with the six older governorate borders of the map source.

Blank Lebanon Map

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Write the name of each numbered governorate.Answer key

  1. Beirut
  2. Nabatieh
  3. South

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each governorate is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a governorate is answered.

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All 3 governorates on the diagram

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  1. Beirut
  2. Nabatieh
  3. South

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01; ids and points are the points file's, labels are Natural Earth's English names where the points file does not say otherwise, and the accepted spellings are the ones the two name sources print. THE DRAWING IS DATED: it has six governorates, and Lebanon has nine: Akkar (from North), Baalbek-Hermel (from Beqaa) and Keserwan-Jbeil (from Mount Lebanon) were split off later. The page numbers and asks only Beirut, Nabatieh and South, whose borders are unchanged; the three older shapes are in this file for the drawing and are never asked. Name sources, read on 2026-10-01: ISO 3166-2:LB as Wikipedia prints it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:LB, eight governorates: the six of the drawing with Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorates_of_Lebanon (nine, with Keserwan-Jbeil); the law that made Keserwan-Jbeil a governorate, as the legal informatics center of the Lebanese University prints it in Arabic (law no. 50 of 7 September 2017, Official Gazette no. 42 of 14 September 2017; read in the copy of 8 November 2021 on web.archive.org, https://web.archive.org/web/20211108233259/http://www.legallaw.ul.edu.lb/Law.aspx?lawId=273715). Reference lists that still count eight, without Keserwan-Jbeil: ISO 3166-2:LB and the UN OCHA boundary set at https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-lbn (reviewed 30 October 2025). Lebanon's outline is Natural Earth's; the land around it is drawn without inner borders, by the drawing's spec. Read again on 2026-10-03: the same archived copy of the 2017 law, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorates_of_Lebanon (nine governorates), the leads of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebaa_Farms. The Shebaa Farms, which Lebanon claims, lie outside the outline the boundary file draws. The outline was compared on 2026-10-03 with the Natural Earth 1:10m file the drawing names (the cached download of 2026-09-19): the two cover the same area. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centered on 33.7°N 35.7°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank Lebanon map opens on the plain outline of the country. Switch Borders on for the six governorates Lebanon had before three more were split off; today it has nine.

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Outline first

The sheet opens with nothing inside the outline, so it prints as a sheet to draw towns, mountains or today’s nine governorates on.

Why three governorates have numbers

The borders are those of six governorates. Beirut, Nabatieh and South are unchanged today, and Numbered and Named label those three. North has since lost Akkar, Beqaa has lost Baalbek-Hermel and Mount Lebanon has lost Keserwan-Jbeil, so those older shapes stay unlabeled.

  • The Mediterranean Sea lies west of Lebanon. Have students write its name beside the coast.

Questions and answers

How many governorates does Lebanon have?

Nine: Akkar, Baalbek-Hermel, Beirut, Beqaa, Keserwan-Jbeil, Mount Lebanon, Nabatieh, North and South. The ninth, Keserwan-Jbeil, dates from a law of 2017, and some lists still show eight. This map draws six older shapes and numbers Beirut, Nabatieh and South.

Can I print Lebanon as a plain outline?

Yes. The sheet opens that way, with nothing inside the outline of the country.

Are the borders on this map disputed?

Some borders on this map are disputed. The map follows Natural Earth, a public-domain map source, and does not take a side. In the southeast it leaves the Shebaa Farms, a strip that Lebanon claims and Israel occupies, outside Lebanon’s outline.

Which countries border Lebanon?

Syria on the north and east, Israel on the south. The Mediterranean Sea is to the west. On this map the land around Lebanon is drawn plain, without lines or names.

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