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Fun fact 4 about Sidon

View from Sidon's Sea Castle, Sidon, Lebanon
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The Sidon Soap Museum traces the history of soap making in the region.

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Sidon

Lebanon

Country
Lebanon
Population
163.6K
Coordinates
33.56, 35.37
884th most populous city in the world

Sidon, or Saida, is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located on the Mediterranean coast in the South Governorate, of which it is the capital. Tyre, to the south, and the Lebanese capital of Beirut, to the north, are each about 40 kilometres away.

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Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0