Lebanon is divided into nine governorates (Arabic: ).
Each governorate is headed by a governor (Arabic: ).
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Governorate !! class="unsortable" | Arabic name !! Capital City
!ISO code
!Area (km<sup>2</sup>)
!Population (2022)
!Density
(per km<sup>2</sup>)
!Current governor
|-
| Akkar || style="direction:rtl" | || Halba
|LB-AK
|! style="text-align:right | 776
|! style="text-align:right | 432,000
|557
|Imad Labaki
|-
| Baalbek-Hermel || style="direction:rtl" | || Baalbek
|LB-BH
|! style="text-align:right | 3,009
|! style="text-align:right | 472,000
|157
|Bashir Khodr
|-
| Beirut || style="direction:rtl" | || Beirut
|LB-BA
|! style="text-align:right | 18
|! style="text-align:right | 419,000
|23,278
|Marwan Abboud
|-
| Beqaa || style="direction:rtl" | || Zahleh
|LB-BI
|! style="text-align:right | 1,271
|! style="text-align:right | 540,000
|425
|Kamal Abou Jaoudeh
|-
| Keserwan-Jbeil || style="direction:rtl" | || Jounieh
|
|! style="text-align:right | 722
|! style="text-align:right | 300,000
|415
|Pauline Deeb
|-
| Mount Lebanon || style="direction:rtl" | || Baabda
|LB-JL
|! style="text-align:right | 1,238
|! style="text-align:right | 1,531,000
|1,237
|Charbel Tabet
|-
| Nabatieh || style="direction:rtl" | || Nabatiye
|LB-NA
|! style="text-align:right | 1,058
|! style="text-align:right | 391,000
|370
|Mahmoud Al-Mawla
|-
| North || style="direction:rtl" | || Tripoli
|LB-AS
|! style="text-align:right | 1,205
|! style="text-align:right | 803,000
|666
|Ramzi Nohra
|-
| South || style="direction:rtl" | || Sidon
|LB-JA
|! style="text-align:right | 943
|! style="text-align:right | 602,000
|638
|Mansour Daou
|}
All of the governorates except for Beirut and Akkar are divided into districts, which are further subdivided into municipalities.
The newest governorate is Keserwan-Jbeil, which was gazetted on 7 September 2017 but whose first governor, Pauline Deeb, was not appointed until 2020. Implementation of the next most recently created governorates, Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel, also remains ongoing since the appointment of their first governors in 2014.
See also
- Politics of Lebanon