Please take into consideration the tiny dimension of this country while reading the following (10,400 sq km )...
SHOCKING NUMBERS:
- 17 religious communities
- 40 daily newspapers
- 42 universities
- Over 100 banks
- 70% of the students are in private schools
- 35% of the Lebanese people are Christians (this is the highest% in all the Arab countries)
- There's 1 doctor/10ppl - -(in Europe &America there's 1 doctor/100ppl)
- The name LEBANON appears 82 times in the Bible
- The name CEDAR appears 75 times in the Old Testament!!
- The country was occupied by over 15 countries: (Egyptians-Hittites-Assyrians-Babylonians-Persians-Alexanderthe Great- The Roman Empire-Byzantine-The Arabian Peninsula -the Crusaders-the Ottoman Empire-Britain-France-Israel-Syria)
- There are 15 rivers in Lebanon - -(all of them coming from it's mountains)
- Beirut was destroyed and rebuilt 7 times - (this is why it's compared to the phoenix)
- There's 4.000.000 Lebanese in Lebanon
- There's over 15 millions outside of Lebanon
OTHER INTERESTING FACTS:
- The ancestors of the Lebanese, the Phoenicians created the 1st boat ever -
- The 1st alphabet was created by Cadmus in Byblos
- The 1st law school was built in Lebanon
- Jesus Christ made his 1st miracle in Lebanon
- The name of the BIBLE comes from the name of our city BYBLOS
- Byblos is the oldest continuous living city in the world
- Lebanon is the only Asian African country that doesn't have a desert
- Lebanon is one of the most populated countries in its - -archeological sites in the world
- The only temple of Jupiter (the main Greek god) - -is in Baalbeck (the city of the sun)
- Lebanon is the only non-dictatorial country in - -the Arab world
- Phoenicians reached America long before - -Christopher Columbus
- Lebanon is the country that has the most books written about It
- People say that the cedars were planted by God's own hands, (this is why they're called God's trees)
- Lebanon 's name has been around for 4.000 years non-stop (it's the oldest nation's name in the world).