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Country
  
Lebanon

District
  
Baabda

Local time
  
Thursday 8:11 AM

Governorate
  
Mount Lebanon

Elevation
  
1,250 m

Falougha-Khalouat

Weather
  
13°C, Wind E at 11 km/h, 37% Humidity

Falougha-Khalouat (Arabic: فالوغا‎‎) is a municipality in the Baabda District of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. The municipality consists of the villages of Falougha and Khalouat Falougha. It is 35 kilometers east of Beirut. Falougha-Khalouat has an average elevation of 1,250 meters above sea level and a total land area of 1,563 hectares. In 2010, Falougha had 2,368 registered voters while Khalouat Falougha had 485.

Map of Falougha, Lebanon

There is a public school in the village with 74 students as of 2007 and a local hospital with thirty beds. There are seven companies that each employ over five employees operating in Falougha. Falougha has a mixed population of Druze and Christians from the Maronite, Melkite (Greek Catholic) and Greek Orthodox denominations, while Khalouat Falougha's inhabitants are entirely Druze.

References

Falougha-Khalouat Wikipedia