Marjeyoun stands on a hill facing Mt Hermon to the east, the Crusader castle of Beafort, set above the Litani River and overlooking Mount Amel (Jabal Amel), to the west, the Mount Lebanon range with the Rihan and Niha peaks the to the north, with the fertile Marjeyoun plains extending southward into the Galilee plains and the Golan Heights.