THE NUMBERS: 

- 17 religious communities

- 40 daily newspapers

- 42 universities

- over 100 banks

- 70% of the students are in private schools

- 40%of the Lebanese people are Christians (this is the highest % in all the Arab countries)

- There's 1 doctor/10ppl (in Europe & America there's 1doctor/100ppl)

- The name LEBANON appears 75 times in the old testament

- The name CEDAR appears 75 times in the old testament!!

- Beirut was destroyed and rebuilt 7 times (this is why it's compared to the phoenix)

- There are 3,500,000 Lebanese in Lebanon

- There are 5,630,000 Lebanese outside Lebanon!!

OTHER INTERESTING FACTS:

- The country was occupied by over 15 countries (Egyptians-Hittites-Assyrians-Babylonians-Persians-Alexander the great-The Roman Empire-Byzantine-The Arabian Peninsula--the Crusaders-the Ottoman Empire-Britain-France- Israel)

- Byblos is the oldest city in the world

- Lebanon's name has been around for 4,000 yrs non-stop (it's the oldest name in the world!)

- Lebanon is the only Asian-African country that doesn't have a desert

- there are 15 rivers in Lebanon (all of them coming from its mountains)

- Lebanon is one of the most populated countries in its archeological sites in the world

- The 1st alphabet was created by Cadmus in Byblos

- The only temple of Jupiter (the main Greek god) is in Baalbeck (the city of the sun)

- The name of the BIBLE comes from the name of our city BYBLOS

- Lebanon is the country who has the most books written about it

- Lebanon is the only non-dictorial country in the Arab world

- Jesus Christ made his 1st miracle in Lebanon

- The Phoenicians created the 1st boat to sail to the Atlantic ocean

- Phoenicians reached America long before Christopher Columbus

- The 1st law school was built in Lebanon

- People say that the cedars were planted by God's own hands (this is why they're called god's trees)

- The rawsheh rock in Beirut is known to be a suicide site (because of the huge number of people who killed themselves there)

P.S. These figures are all antecdotal and are not intended to be used as evidence-backed facts.