What is the elevation of Qurnat as Sawda, the highest summit in Lebanon and the entire Levant?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. 3,088 meters
- Step 1: Qurnat as Sawda is situated in the northern sector of the Mount Lebanon mountain range.
- Step 2: Its official trigonometric elevation reaches 3,088 meters above sea level.
Answer
3,088 meters.
Why not the others: '2,814 meters' corresponds to Mount Hermon (Jabal ash-Shaykh); '2,628 meters' is Mount Sannine; '1,980 meters' is Jabal Niha.
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