Greater Beirut

Greater Beirut (Arabic: بيروت الكبير bayrūt al-kabīr) is the largest and most populous metropolitan area in Lebanon, home to nearly a third of the total Lebanese population. It is centred on Lebanon's capital and most populous city of Beirut, which forms the economic and cultural centre and densest municipality of Greater Beirut. According to the national census of December 2020, Greater Beirut had a population of 2,633,758, with Beirut proper accounting for 705,236 or just over a quarter of the total population.

Greater Beirut officially consists of 11 municipalities, each possessing their own municipal council and forming a single administrative division of Lebanon. The 11 municipalities cooperate on policy and coordinate infrastructure and resources via a regional council, which consists of two senior members from each municipality and meets at least four times a year; the regional council is, however, an unofficial, a priori and entirely voluntary institution, the legal level of government immediately above the municipal level being the government of Lebanon.