1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Lebanon
Compare this sourced profile of Beirut, Lebanon before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Beirut—1,916,100, Asia/Beirut, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and largest city of Lebanon.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Beirut is GeoNames ID 276781. Its recorded administrative path is Beirut → Lebanon, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Beirut occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-04; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Beirut ranks 218 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Lebanon entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 47. Its 1,916,100 population value is 1.00 times the 1,916,100 median for the country cohort and 2.12 times the 902,588 regional median. Beirut is rank 1 among the 1 selected Lebanon entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Beirut's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Beirut's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Damascus at 84.567 km with 1,569,394 recorded people; Homs at 145.504 km with 775,404 recorded people; Irbid at 152.242 km with 569,068 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 67.675 km. Compared with Damascus, Beirut's recorded population is 1.22 times as large. Against Beirut, Damascus follows Damascus Governorate → Syria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Syria cohort rather than Lebanon, uses Asia/Damascus instead of Asia/Beirut, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Beirut's. Against Beirut, Homs follows Homs → Syria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Syria cohort rather than Lebanon, uses Asia/Damascus instead of Asia/Beirut, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Beirut's. Against Beirut, Irbid follows Irbid → Jordan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Jordan cohort rather than Lebanon, uses Asia/Amman instead of Asia/Beirut, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Beirut's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 633 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Beirut's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 276781, the coordinate pair 33.8933 / 35.5016, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 170654 at 84.567 km bind Beirut to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Beirut's reference point is 33.8933° north and 35.5016° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Beirut is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Beirut's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Beirut's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Beirut's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Beirut, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Beirut's closest other entries in this atlas are Damascus (84.567 km), Homs (145.504 km), Irbid (152.242 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Beirut, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-04; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.