Official Languages

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Languages spoken here

Amharic (secondary) · Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (secondary) · Bengali (secondary) · Egyptian Arabic (secondary) · French (secondary) · French (Quebec) (secondary) · Italian (secondary) · Italian (Romanesco) (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Modern Greek (secondary) · Modern Greek (biblical terms) (secondary) · Nepali (secondary) · Northern Kurdish (secondary) · Turkish (secondary) · Western Armenian (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Lebanon

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Arab, Lebanese Muslim	2434000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Arab, Lebanese Christian	1301000	Arabic, Levantine	Christianity
Arab, Syrian	724000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Armenian	261000	Armenian, Western	Christianity
Druze	259000	Arabic, Levantine	Other / Small
Arab, Palestinian	224000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Alawite	111000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Arab, Egyptian general	92000	Arabic, Egyptian	Islam
Kurd, Kurmanji	71000	Kurdish, Northern	Islam
Amhara, Ethiopian	59000	Amharic	Christianity
Assyrian	40000	Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	Christianity
Turkmen, Middle-Eastern	39000	Turkish	Islam
Bengali	36000	Bengali	Islam
Chaldean	28000	Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	Christianity
French	25000	French	Christianity
Syrian Aramaic, Turoyo	25000	Turoyo	Christianity
Arab, Iraqi	18000	Arabic, Mesopotamian	Islam
Filipino, Tagalog	18000	Tagalog	Christianity
Arab, Sudanese	15000	Arabic, Sudanese	Islam
Deaf	12000	Language unknown	Unknown
Nepali, general	10000	Nepali	Hinduism
Persian	7100	Persian, Iranian	Islam
Aramaic, West	6600	Western Neo-Aramaic	Christianity
Greek	5100	Greek	Christianity
Italian	5100	Italian	Christianity
Bedouin, Levantine	3000	Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi	Islam

Languages

21 languages recorded here.

Amharic

Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi

Arabic, Egyptian

Arabic, Levantine

Arabic, Mesopotamian

Arabic, Sudanese

Armenian, Western

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Bengali

Chaldean Neo-Aramaic

French

Greek

Italian

Kurdish, Northern

Language unknown

Nepali

Persian, Iranian

Tagalog

Turkish

Turoyo

Western Neo-Aramaic

All catalogue fields

158 fields recorded

rog3: LE
iso3: LBN
iso2: LB
ctry: Lebanon
poplpeoples: 5829000
cntpeoples: 26
cntpeopleslr: 12
poplpeopleslr: 3015000
jpscalectry: 2
rol3officiallanguage: arb
officiallang: Arabic, Standard
rlg3primary: 6
religionprimary: Islam
percentchristianity: 31.518603209879
percentevangelical: 0.71609846930187
c_10_40window: Y
rog2: ASI
continent: Asia
regioncode: 6
regionname: Africa, North and Middle East
workersneeded: 65
harvest_rog3: LE
harvest_iso3: LBN
harvest_iso2: LB
harvest_owcountrycode: LEBA
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: LB
harvest_countrynumber: 118
harvest_ctry: Lebanon
harvest_ctryshort: Lebanon
harvest_countrynamechinese: 黎巴嫩
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 黎巴嫩
harvest_countrynamedutch: Libanon
harvest_countrynamefrench: Liban
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Liban
harvest_countrynamegerman: Libanon
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Libanon
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Lebanon
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Lebanon
harvest_countrynameitalian: Libano
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Libano
harvest_countrynamekorean: 레바논
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 레바논
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Libanon
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Libanon
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Líbano
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Líbano
harvest_countrynamerussian: Ливан
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Ливан
harvest_countrynamespanish: Líbano
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Líbano
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Liban
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Liban
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
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harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: im
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix: -
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix: 의
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix: i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix: no
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harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
harvest_ethnologuemapexists: N
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harvest_regioncode2414: 14
harvest_regioncode: 6
harvest_unsr: 145
harvest_worldabc: B
harvest_capital: Beirut
harvest_population: 5849000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/lebanon.html
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harvest_unmap: https://un.org/geospatial/content/lebanon
harvest_jpscale: 2
harvest_c_10_40window: Y
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal: Y
harvest_biblerestrictionsrank: 64
harvest_bibleshortagerank: 52
harvest_bibleaccessurl: https://www.bibleaccesslist.org/profiles/LB_2025_profile.pdf
harvest_owpctevang: 0.5
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harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate: 2.0999999
harvest_owcountrypage: lebanon
harvest_literacyrate: 94
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 87
harvest_rol3officiallanguage: arb
harvest_rol3secondarylanguage: eng
harvest_rlg3primary: 6
harvest_pctanimist: 0
harvest_pctbahai: 0.02
harvest_pctbuddhism: 0
harvest_pctchinese: 0
harvest_pcthindu: 0
harvest_pctislam: 58.96
harvest_pctsikh: 0
harvest_pctjudaism: 0
harvest_pctnonreligious: 2.05
harvest_pctother: 7
harvest_pctchristian: 31.97
harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 0.35
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 0.23
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 0
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 23.9
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 7.32
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 0.17
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 0
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: 0
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A001
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.763
harvest_hdirank: 76
harvest_internetusers: 76.09999999999999
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harvest_flashmapzoomx: -665
harvest_flashmapzoomy: -409
harvest_googlemapzoom: 6
harvest_googlemaplat: 33.8333
harvest_googlemaplng: 35.8333
harvest_ctrylatitude: 33.854721
harvest_ctrylongitude: 35.862285
harvest_securitylevel: 1
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/lebanon/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 204
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 0.8517034068136272
harvest_v59country: Y
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=lb&joshua=le
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-lebanon
harvest_internetusage: 78
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2017
harvest_pray1040url: https://pray1040.com/pray-for-lebanon/
harvest_voiceofmartyrsurl: https://www.persecution.com/globalprayerguide/lebanon/
harvest_biblesocietyurl: http://www.biblesociety.org.lb/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 4015
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 10230
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 918
harvest_countryphonecode: 961
harvest_wincountryprofile: http://win1040.com/page.php?id=572
harvest_owpctchristian1986: 30
harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 0.5600000000000001
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 38.4
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 0.4
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 31.93
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 0.6
harvest_stonyground: Y
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .lb
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/lebanon
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00