Beirut

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Beirut بيروت
Municipality
Beirut Skyline
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Beirut
Coordinates: 33°53′13.0″N 35°30′47.0″E / 33.886944°N 35.513056°E / 33.886944; 35.513056
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Beirut
Government
• Mayor	Jamal Itani
Area
• Total	19.60 km2 (7.57 sq mi)
Population  (December 31, 2017)
• Total	433,249
• Density	22,105/km2 (57,250/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
Website	Official website

Beirut is the capital of Lebanon. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world. It is on a hilly promontory on the eastern Mediterranean surrounded to the east by the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon. Before the civil war it was a cultural center of the Arab World, a major international financial, banking and media center and was called the Switzerland of the Middle East. It was called the Paris of the Middle East.