Qabeit | |
Native Name: | قبعيت |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Lebanon |
Pushpin Map Alt: | Qabeit within the map of Lebanon |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Qabeit in Lebanon |
Coordinates: | 34.4494°N 36.0961°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Lebanon |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | Akkar |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Akkar |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 220 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Qabeit, also Qabaait or Kabiit (ar|قبعيت), is a village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. The population is Sunni Muslims.[2]
The town mourned the death of 17 people connected to the area who drowned while trying to reach Australia by makeshift boat in September 2012.[3] Qabeit is in one of the poorest parts of Lebanon and is part of a region that has received hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees during the Syrian Civil War.[3] [4] [5]