Settlements similar to or like Sidon

Capital and the largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. Fourth largest city in Lebanon after Beirut, Tripoli, and Sidon and the fourth largest taking the whole urban area . Wikipedia

Largest city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. Capital of the North Governorate and the Tripoli District. Wikipedia

Capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.2 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the thirteenth-largest in the Arab world. Wikipedia

City in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. Believed to have been first occupied between 8800 and 7000BC and continuously inhabited since 5000BC, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Wikipedia

One of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, though in medieval times for some centuries by just a tiny population. One of the earliest Phoenician metropoleis and the legendary birthplace of Europa, her brothers Cadmus and Phoenix, as well as Carthage's founder Dido . Wikipedia

City located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about 67 km northeast of Beirut. Capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. Wikipedia