The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coast.
As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.2 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. Beirut ( / b eɪ ˈ r uː t/ bay- ROOT Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
