Chhim is a town in the Chouf area, Mount Lebanon. Chouf App is a utility app for Chouf-area residents — it connects Chhim with Chouf-based stores for shopping and with a directory of trusted local trades.
elevation ~200 m · area ~2.52 km²
Chhim is a town in the Chouf District of Mount Lebanon at about 200 m above sea level roughly 82 km from Beirut. Its land covers about 2.52 km², local agriculture includes wheat.
Freiha traced Chhim to Aramaic-Syriac meaning blackness/darkness of color, 'the dark one', perhaps for its dark soil. Habiqa and Armala read it as 'simple/plain'. The author believes the name means 'the common folk/the general public'.
~45 km from Beirut
أمين، البابا، تراوي، الجوزو، الحاج، الحاج شحادة، شحادة، الحجّار، حجاوري، الحلبي، حمدان، الخطيب، دحروج، درويش، دغيلي، ديب، زرزور، شافي، شرف الدين، شعبان، شقور، صادق، صعب، ضاهر، عاشور، عبدالله، عرفه، عويدات، عيسى، فارس، فواز، قبلان، قذاح، قشوع، قميح، كيوان، مراد، المعلم، ملكي، نجم الدين، وهبة، يونس
The town of Chhim is in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, about 45 km from Beirut, at around 200 m elevation.
Chhim is about 45 km from Beirut.
Freiha traced Chhim to Aramaic-Syriac meaning blackness/darkness of color, 'the dark one', perhaps for its dark soil. Habiqa and Armala read it as 'simple/plain'. The author believes the name means 'the common folk/the general public'.
Families associated with Chhim include: أمين, البابا, تراوي, الجوزو, الحاج, الحاج شحادة, شحادة, الحجّار, حجاوري, الحلبي, حمدان, الخطيب, دحروج, درويش, دغيلي, ديب, زرزور, شافي, شرف الدين, شعبان, شقور, صادق, صعب, ضاهر, عاشور, عبدالله, عرفه, عويدات, عيسى, فارس, فواز, قبلان, قذاح, قشوع, قميح, كيوان, مراد, المعلم, ملكي, نجم الدين, وهبة, يونس.
Notable people connected to Chhim include Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Ali al-Jozo, Dr. Mostafa al-Jozo, Abdul-Halim Hussein al-Hajjar, Dr. Helmi al-Hajjar.
Chhim is one of the seventeen municipalities that form the Union of Municipalities of Iqlim El-Kharroub El-Chamali — the northern half of the Iqlim El-Kharroub belt of Chouf District. The union takes Mazboud as its seat and runs from Jiyeh and Rmaileh on the Mediterranean up to roughly 795 metres at Daraya and Aanout on its eastern, mountainous edge. Within the union, Chhim is the site of the Roman Palace ruins listed among the area's heritage assets, and it hosts one of the union's government health-care facilities — a small clinic that complements the hospitals in Sibline and Mazboud; shrines in Chhim are also named among the area's religious sites, and a share of the union's industrial facilities are located here.
Source: UN-Habitat Lebanon (2023), A Road Map Towards a Socioeconomic Development Plan for the Union of Municipalities of Iqlim El-Kharroub El-Chamali, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.