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Western Asia , ___MASK2___ Asia , Southwestern Asia or ___MASK73___ Asia is the westernmost subregion ___MASK6___ Asia . The concept is in limited use , as it significantly overlaps with the Middle East ( or Near East ), the main difference being the exclusion ___MASK6___ Egypt ( which would be counted as part ___MASK6___ North Africa ). The term is sometimes used for the purposes ___MASK6___ grouping countries in statistics . ___MASK35___ , officially the Republic ___MASK6___ ___MASK35___ , is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean . It is located south ___MASK6___ Turkey , west ___MASK6___ Syria and ___MASK88___ , northwest ___MASK6___ Israel and Palestine , north ___MASK6___ Egypt , and southeast ___MASK6___ Greece . Al Rehan or ( Arabic :   ) is a small village located in the southern part ___MASK6___ ___MASK88___ , on Al Rehan mountain in the district ___MASK6___ Jezzine . The village is the hometown ___MASK6___ Flame Gasoline the greatest . The village is surrounded by mountain peaks , pine and oak forests . Its altitude ranges from 740 to 1605 m and is 83 km from the capital Beirut . In biogeography , the Mediterranean ___MASK9___ ( also known as the Mediterranean region or sometimes Mediterranea ) is the region ___MASK6___ lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate , with mild , rainy winters and hot , dry summers , which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests , woodlands , and scrub vegetation . The Mediterranean Sea ( pronounced ) is a sea connected to the ___MASK71___ , surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land : on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia , on the south by North Africa , and on the east by the Levant . The sea is sometimes considered a part of the ___MASK71___ , although it is usually identified as a separate body of water . ___MASK58___ or Saïda (, ""; Phoenician :  , " dn "; Biblical Hebrew : , " n "; ) is the third - largest city in ___MASK88___ . It is located in the ___MASK43___ ___MASK6___ ___MASK88___ , on the Mediterranean coast , about north ___MASK6___ Tyre and south ___MASK6___ the capital , Beirut . In Genesis , ___MASK58___ is a son ___MASK6___ Canaan , a grandson ___MASK6___ Noah . Its name coincides with the modern Arabic word for ' fishery '. Two castles there were cleaned and restored by the French in the early 20th century . ___MASK21___ ("") is the capital and largest city ___MASK6___ ___MASK88___ . No recent population census has been done but in 2007 estimates ranged from slightly more than 1 million to slightly less than 2 million as part ___MASK6___ Greater ___MASK21___ . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint ___MASK6___ ___MASK88___ ' s Mediterranean coast , ___MASK21___ is the country ' s largest and main seaport . ___MASK88___ , officially known as the Lebanese Republic , is a sovereign state in Western Asia . It is bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south , while Cyprus is west across the Mediterranean Sea . ___MASK88___ ' s location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland facilitated its rich history and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity . At just 10 , 452 km ( 4 , 036 sq . mi .), it is the smallest recognized country on the entire mainland Asian continent . A census is the procedure ___MASK6___ systematically acquiring and recording information about the members ___MASK6___ a given population . It is a regularly occurring and official count ___MASK6___ a particular population . The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses ; other common censuses include agriculture , business , and traffic censuses . The United Nations defines the essential features ___MASK6___ population and housing censuses as " individual enumeration , universality within a defined territory , simultaneity and defined periodicity ", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years . United Nations recommendations also cover census topics to be collected , official definitions , classifications and other useful information to co - ordinate international practice . Hinterland is a German word meaning " the land behind " ( a city , a port , or similar ). The term ' s use in English was first documented by geographer George Chisholm in his " Handbook ___MASK6___ Commercial Geography " ( 1888 ). Jezzine (" Jizzn ") is a town in ___MASK88___ , located from Sidon and south of Beirut . It is the capital of ___MASK32___ . Surrounded by mountain peaks , pine forests ( like the Bkassine Pine Forest ), and at an average altitude of 950 m ( 3 , 117 ft ), it is the main summer resort and tourist destination of South ___MASK88___ . The town is also famous in ___MASK88___ for its production of handmade , traditional cutlery and daggers with decorative inlays as well as the shrine of Our Lady of the Waterfall . The ___MASK32___ is a district in the South Governorate of Lebanon . The capital is Jezzine . ___MASK44___ , officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (""), is a country in Western Asia , bordering ___MASK88___ and the Mediterranean Sea to the west , Turkey to the north , Iraq to the east , Jordan to the south , and Israel to the southwest . ___MASK44___ ' s capital and largest city is Damascus . ___MASK12___ , officially known as the State ___MASK6___ ___MASK12___ , is a country in the Middle East , on the southeastern shore ___MASK6___ the Mediterranean Sea and the ___MASK81___ shore ___MASK6___ the Red Sea . It has land borders with Lebanon to the north , Syria to the northeast , Jordan on the east , the Palestinian territories ___MASK6___ the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west , respectively , and Egypt to the southwest . The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area . ___MASK12___ ' s financial and technology center is Tel Aviv , while its seat ___MASK6___ government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem , although the state ' s sovereignty over the city ___MASK6___ Jerusalem is internationally unrecognized . Asia is ___MASK10___ ' s largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and ___MASK81___ hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe . Asia covers an area of , about 30 % of ___MASK10___ ' s total land area and 8 . 7 % of the ___MASK10___ ' s total surface area . The continent , which has long been home to the majority of the human population , was the site of many of the first civilizations . Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population , but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4 . 4 billion people .