Abadiyeh ( ar, العبادية; also spelled ''al-Abadiyah'' or ''Aabadiyeh'') is a municipality in the

Baabda District Baabda District ( ar, قضاء بعبدا, transliteration: ''Qada' Baabda''), sometimes spelled ''B'abda'', is a district (''qadaa'') of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, to the south and east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The region is als ...

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. It is located 16 kilometers east of

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. There is one public school in the town, which had 345 pupils in 2006. It is the hometown of Lebanese actress

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, Lebanese footballer

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, and former

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, Lebanese kick boxing fighter Rabih Zahr, Lebanese Director in Moderna Inc Froncois Nader

Geography

Abadiyeh has a land area of 916

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...

s. Its average elevation is 780 meters above sea level. Neighboring localities include Chouit to the west,

Beit Mery Beit Mery ( ar, بيت مري ; also Beit Mer, Beir Meri) is a Lebanese town overlooking the capital Beirut. The town has been a summer mountain resort since the times of the Phoenicians and later the Romans. The name derives from Aramaic and me ...

to the northwest,

Ras el-Matn Ras el-Matn or (Ras el-Metn) or (Ra's al-Matn) ( ar, رأس المتن) is a Lebanon, Lebanese town and municipality in the Baabda District of Mount Lebanon Governorate stretching over 1300 hectares (13 km² - 5 mi²). The town has a pop ...

to the north, el-Halaliyeh to the east, Baalchemay to the southeast, and

Aley Aley ( ar, عاليه) is a major city in Lebanon. It is the capital of the Aley District and fourth largest city in Lebanon. The city is located on Mount Lebanon, 15 km uphill from Beirut on the freeway to Damascus. Aley has the nick ...

and Ain el-Jdeide to the south.

References

{{Baabda District Populated places in Baabda District Druze communities in Lebanon Eastern Orthodox Christian communities in Lebanon Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon