title: Governorates of Lebanon
text: # Governorates of Lebanon
  
  Lebanon is divided into nine governorates (muhafazah). Each governorate is headed by a governor (muhafiz):
  
  | Governorate | Arabic name | Capital City | ISO code | Area $(km^2)$ | Population (2022) | Current governor |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Akkar | عكار | Halba | LB-AK | 776 | 432,000 | Imad Labaki |
  | Baalbek-Hermel | بعلبك - الهرمل | Baalbek | LB-BH | 3,009 | 472,000 | Bachir Khodr |
  | Beirut | بيروت | Beirut | LB-BA | 18 | 419,000 | Marwan Abboud |
  | Beqaa | البقاع | Zahleh | LB-BI | 1,271 | 540,000 | Kamal Abou Jaoudeh |
  | Keserwan-Jbeil | كسروان - جبيل | Jounieh | — | 722 | 300,000 | Pauline Deeb |
  | Mount Lebanon | جبل لبنان | Baabda | LB-JL | 1,238 | 1,531,000 | Mohammed Al-Makkawi |
  | Nabatieh | النبطية | Nabatiye | LB-NA | 1,058 | 391,000 | Mahmoud Al-Mawla |
  | North | الشمال | Tripoli | LB-AS | 1,205 | 803,000 | Ramzi Nohra |
  | South | الجنوب | Sidon | LB-JA | 943 | 602,000 | Mansour Daw |
  
  All of the governorates except for Beirut and Akkar are divided into districts, which are further subdivided into municipalities.
  
  The newest governorate is Keserwan-Jbeil, which was gazetted on 7 September 2017 but whose first governor, Pauline Deeb, was not appointed until 2020. Implementation of the next most recently created governorates, Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel, also remains ongoing since the appointment of their first governors in 2014.
  
  