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Municipality in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon

Ain Qana

Ain Qana, also known as Ainqana, is a municipality in the Nabatieh Governorate, Southern Lebanon.

Ain Qana
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The place

Ain Qana, also known as Ainqana, is a municipality in the Nabatieh Governorate, Southern Lebanon.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ain Qana

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Mount Safi

    Mount Safi, also known as Jabal Safi is a mountain located in the southernmost part of the Mount Lebanon mountain range. It has an elevation of at least 1,300 meters, with a prominence of around 222 meters.

    3.4 km · mountain in Lebanon · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ain Qana

Airports
Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 39 km · Damascus (DAM), 94 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 173 km
  • Damascus → Ain Qana
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · $12–16
  • Amman → Ain Qana
    173 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · JD13–17
  • Tel Aviv → Ain Qana
    168 km · quickest by road, 6h 4m · ₪150–200
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ain Qana

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ain Qana. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA minibus from Beirut's Cola station costs 2000 L.L.

From Wikivoyage: Sidon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    350 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    434 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    561 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    617 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    994 km

If you know how people move in Ain Qana – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ain Qana

Ain Qana is 47 km from Beirut, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Louayzeh (Jezzine)municipality in South Governorate, Lebanon2.7 km
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