Lebanese Republic

Capital: Beirut

Total Area: 4,015.46 sq mi,10,400.00 sq km,(about 0.7 times the size of Connecticut)

Population: 3,627,774 (July 2001 est.)

Estimated Population in 2050: 4,940,731

Languages: Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian

Literacy: 86.4% total, 90.8% male, 82.2% female (1997 est.)

Religions: Muslim 70% (including Shi'a, Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite or Nusayri), Christian 30% (including Orthodox Christian, Catholic, Protestant), Jewish negligible%

Life Expectancy: 69.13 male, 74.03 female (2001 est.)

Government Type: republic

Currency: 1 Lebanese pound = 100 piasters

GDP (per capita): $5,000 (2000 est.)

Industry: banking; food processing; jewelry; cement; textiles; mineral and chemical products; wood and furniture products; oil refining; metal fabricating

Agriculture: citrus, grapes, tomatoes, apples, vegetables, potatoes, olives, tobacco; sheep, goats

Arable Land: 18%

Natural Resources: limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land

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