Chouf :)

Chouf is one of the districts of Mount Lebanon Governorate six, is a riverbed Damour its northern border, and the riverbed initial southern borders, and extends from the shores of the White Sea in the west upwards towards the peaks of Mount Baroque at an altitude of two thousand meters to form its eastern border with an area of ​​495 square kilometers, ie 4.7 % of the total area. 

Bounded on the north and on the east Aley in the western Bekaa and the south judicial Jezzine and Sidon - Al-Zahrani and the epicenter town of Beit Din capital of the Emirate of Mount Lebanon, the historic core of the Lebanese Republic existed in two forms of political and geographical

The population of the judiciary 174000 people living in it are distributed on 97 town where the 72 elected municipal council

Shouf District includes a number of cities that played a key role in Lebanese politics days of Ottoman rule, Kpaklan and Deir al-Qamar, which moved in our time