{"id":26778,"date":"2026-03-26T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26778"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:57:15","slug":"lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Lebanon Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Israel said that its military would take control of southern Lebanon up to the Litani River to create a \u201csecurity zone\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Lebanon<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is situated on the <\/span><b>eastern coast<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><b>Mediterranean Sea in Western Asia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Borders:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is bounded in the <\/span><b>northern and eastern parts by Syria<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; in the southern part by <\/span><b>Israel;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the western part by the <\/span><b>Mediterranean Sea.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country shares its <\/span><b>maritime borders with Cyprus.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Beirut<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of Lebanon<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its <\/span><b>Mediterranean <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">climate brings mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Mountains:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its major mountains are <\/span><b>Lebanon Mountains (Jabal Lubnan), Hermon Ranges.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Peak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The highest point of Lebanon is <\/span><b>Qurnat as Sawda&#8217;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which peaks at 10,128 ft. (3,087 m) in the Lebanon Mountains.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Valley:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bekaa (Al-Biqa)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>River:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Litani the most significant river which irrigates the heart of the fertile Bekaa Valley.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural Resources:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lebanon has various mineral products which include <\/span><b>limestone, gypsum, oil, natural gas, and salt<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Other important commodities include semiprecious gemstones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Economy:<\/b> <b>Services<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including banking and tourism, are Lebanon\u2019s most important economic activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/middle-east\/forward-defensive-line-israel-says-it-will-control-south-lebanon-up-to-litani-river-to-create-a-security-zone\/articleshow\/129780771.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon is located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Western Asia, bordered by Syria and Israel, with Beirut as its capital and a diverse geographic landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":94985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6377,21,350],"class_list":{"0":"post-26778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-lebanon","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-afffairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95012,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26778\/revisions\/95012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}