Zawtar al-Sharqiyah (Arabic: زوطر الشرقية) is a municipality overlooking the Litani River in the province of Nabatieh in South Lebanon (85 km from Beirut; 9 km from Nabatieh; 475 m (1558ft) above sea level).

Its population exceeds 4,000, most of whom depend on tobacco farming as their main or supplementary source of income.

The town has one intermediate public school, one nursery, and one partially functioning health center affiliated with the Ministry of Social Affairs.

In the Syriac language, it is what used to be offered to worshipped idols from flour, butter, and honey, back in antiquity.

Camel caravans used to come from the Arabian Peninsula in the pre-Islamic times and load up on local grapes and wines.