Lebanon is rather densely populated, but the people are unevenly distributed. Most Lebanese are Arab, but there are many other racial and cultural groups. Muslims make up more than half of the population, which is grouped into the Sunnites and the Shi'ites, and Christians make up most of the rest. Other religions include the Maronite Catholics, Greek Orthodox, and the Druze. There are about seventeen religious communities in Lebanon.

About 88 percent of the people in Lebanon can read and write. Relative to its size, it has the largest number of

The Maronite Church, one of the largest eastern rite communities of the Roman Catholic Church, and some other people, strongly pro-French, by tradition, welcomed this while the French held the mandate which the Maronites favored. The expansion of prewar Lebanon into Greater Lebanon changed the population. This change in population was because the rest of the Lebanese did not like the way the allied French forces took over Lebanon. The population also changed because of poor economy.

Beginning in 1914 and ending in 1918, World War One, also known as the Great War, brought a lot of depression, poverty, and international conflict to many Middle Eastern countries, including Lebanon. Following the war, Lebanon was initially administrated by allied forces and placed under the French Military. In 1920 Beirut and other coastal towns were added to the Lebanese territory to form a Greater Lebanon. In 1923, the League of Nations officially gave

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