| Governorate | |
| Alt Name: | Muhafazah |
| Current Number: | 9 |
| Number Date: | 2022 |
| Population Range: | 300,000 (Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate) - 1,531,000 (Mount Lebanon Governorate) |
| Subdivision: | District |
Lebanon is divided into nine governorates (muhafazah). Each governorate is headed by a governor (muhafiz):
| Governorate | Arabic name | Capital City | ISO code | Area (km2)[1] | Population (2022)[2] | Current governor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic: عكار | Halba | LB-AK | 776 | 432,000 | Imad Labaki | ||
| Arabic: بعلبك - الهرمل | Baalbek | LB-BH | 3,009 | 472,000 | Bachir Khodr | ||
| Arabic: بيروت | Beirut | LB-BA | 18 | 419,000 | Marwan Abboud | ||
| Arabic: البقاع | Zahleh | LB-BI | 1,271 | 540,000 | Kamal Abou Jaoudeh | ||
| Arabic: كسروان - جبيل | Jounieh | 722 | 300,000 | Pauline Deeb | |||
| Arabic: جبل لبنان | Baabda | LB-JL | 1,238 | 1,531,000 | Mohammed Al-Makkawi | ||
| Arabic: النبطية | Nabatiye | LB-NA | 1,058 | 391,000 | Mahmoud Al-Mawla | ||
| Arabic: الشمال | Tripoli | LB-AS | 1,205 | 803,000 | Ramzi Nohra | ||
| Arabic: 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[3] [4] but whose first governor, Pauline Deeb, was not appointed until 2020.[5] Implementation of the next most recently created governorates, Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel, also remains ongoing since the appointment of their first governors in 2014.[6]