Buq’ata
Buq'ata is a Druze town, administered as a local council, in the northern section of the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights. Buq'ata covers an area of 7,000 dunams between two mountains in the Golan Heights, Mount Hermonit and Mount Varda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chaver83, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 6,530 residents
- Description: farm village in Israel
- Also known as: “Baq‘ātā”, “Baqa‘tah”, “Boqaâta”, “Buq‘ātā”, and “Buq’atha”
Places of Interest
Highlights include 1228 Mt. Varda and 1215 Mt. Hermonit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El Rom and Odem.
El Rom
Village
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Rom is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the northern Golan Heights in the municipal territory of the Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. El Rom is situated 2½ km south of Buq’ata.
Odem
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Odem is an Israeli settlement and moshav shitufi in the northern part of the Golan Heights. Located on Mount Odem, at a height of 1,090 meters above sea level, it is the second-highest town in Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories. Odem is situated 3 km west of Buq’ata.
Mas’ade
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mas'ade is a Druze village in the northern Golan Heights, Syria. It covers an area of 11,985 dunams, and in 2023 had a population of 4,161. It was given the status of a local council in 1982. Mas’ade is situated 4 km northwest of Buq’ata.
Buq’ata
- Categories: residential area and locality
- Location: Quneitra Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.20087° or 33° 12′ 3″ northLongitude
35.77942° or 35° 46′ 46″ eastPopulation
6,530Elevation
1,088 metres (3,570 feet)Open location code
8G5Q6Q2H+8QOpenStreetMap ID
way 602253097OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Buq’ata” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بقعاتا”
- Arabic: “بقعاثا”
- Czech: “Buk’ata”
- Czech: “Bukata”
- Czech: “Buq’ata”
- Czech: “Buqata”
- Dutch: “Buq’ata”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بقعاثا”
- French: “Buq’ata”
- French: “Buq’atha”
- Hebrew: “בוקעאתא”
- Hebrew: “בוקעתא”
- Hebrew: “בוקעתה”
- Italian: “Buq’ata”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buq’ata”
- Persian: “بقعاثا”
- Polish: “Bukata”
- Polish: “Buq’ata”
- Russian: “Буката”
- Turkish: “Buk’ata”
- Vietnamese: “Buq’ata”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Buq’ata”. Photo: Chaver83, Public domain.