Wadi El Zayni is a coastal stretch on the Beirut–Sidon highway, inside the municipal boundaries of Jadra, in Iqlim el-Kharroub — the seaward side of the Chouf District, Mount Lebanon — about 44 km south of Beirut. If you searched for it and landed here, this page answers exactly where it is, which district it falls under, and what towns surround it.
The name Wadi El Zayni does not belong to a separate municipality. It refers to a strip of land inside the municipal bounds of Jadra, whose full official name is Jadra - Wadi El Zayni. Jadra sits on the Beirut–Sidon coastal highway, roughly 44 km from Beirut, with the Wadi el-Zayni strip forming part of its territory. On the map, Jadra — and Wadi El Zayni with it — lies on the coastal strip between Jiyeh to the north and Rmaileh to the south, directly on the highway that runs the length of the Lebanese coast.
Wadi El Zayni falls under Qada Chouf — the Chouf District, Mount Lebanon — specifically within Iqlim el-Kharroub, the coastal sub-region of the Chouf. Administratively, it belongs to the municipality of Jadra - Wadi El Zayni, one of the seventeen municipalities that make up the Union of Municipalities of Iqlim El-Kharroub El-Chamali, the northern half of the Iqlim el-Kharroub belt. The union takes Mazboud as its administrative seat.
The union's territory stretches from sea level at Jiyeh and Rmaileh — its lowest points — up to roughly 795 metres at Daraya and Aanout on its eastern, mountainous edge. Wadi El Zayni and Jadra sit near the union's coastal, low-lying end of that range, at an elevation of about 49 metres.
Locally, Wadi El Zayni also functions as a highway landmark: it names a junction on the Beirut–Sidon road where a route branches inland toward the hill towns of the Chouf. Drivers heading further up the mountain, to a town like Bsaba, can get there either by turning off at the Wadi El Zayni junction or by the alternative inland route through Damour, Beiteddine, and Ghrayfeh.
The road that runs past Wadi El Zayni is the Beirut–Sidon highway, the main coastal route linking Beirut to South Lebanon. It threads along the Mediterranean through the Chouf District's coastal strip, Iqlim el-Kharroub, connecting towns like Jiyeh, Jadra, and Rmaileh before continuing south past Sidon. For anyone driving the coast, Wadi El Zayni is simply a stretch of that same road, inside Jadra's boundaries, roughly midway between Jiyeh and Rmaileh.
The land around Wadi El Zayni, inside Jadra's boundaries, has long been farmed — fruit trees, grapevines, grains, and vegetables have been grown there for generations. It sits in one of the flatter, coastal parts of the Chouf, where farmland has always coexisted with the highway traffic passing through toward the south of Lebanon. That mix of coastal fields and through-traffic is typical of Iqlim el-Kharroub's lower towns, where the road and the farmland sit side by side.
Because Wadi El Zayni sits inside Jadra, the closest towns are the ones bordering Jadra along the coast and just inland:
Wadi El Zayni is a coastal strip on the Beirut–Sidon highway, inside the municipal boundaries of Jadra, in Iqlim el-Kharroub — the coastal side of the Chouf District, Mount Lebanon — about 44 km south of Beirut.
It belongs to Qada Chouf, the Chouf District. Within the district it sits in Iqlim el-Kharroub, and administratively it's part of the municipality of Jadra - Wadi El Zayni, one of the seventeen municipalities in the Union of Municipalities of Iqlim El-Kharroub El-Chamali.
It isn't a separate municipality. Wadi El Zayni is a named area inside Jadra's municipal territory — the town's full official name is Jadra - Wadi El Zayni.
About 44 km, heading south along the Beirut–Sidon coastal highway.
Jiyeh sits immediately north along the coast and Rmaileh immediately south. Barja and Sibline are a short distance inland, and Mazboud — the Iqlim el-Kharroub union's seat — is a little further in.
On the coast. Jadra's land here sits at low elevation, about 49 metres above sea level, right on the Beirut–Sidon highway — at the low end of the Iqlim el-Kharroub union, which rises to roughly 795 metres further inland at Daraya and Aanout.
Its farmland — fruit trees, grapevines, grains, and vegetables have long been grown on Jadra's land here — and, on the road, as the landmark where drivers heading up to hill towns like Bsaba turn off the coastal highway.