Middle East
Jordan
Irbid Governorate

Kufr Rakeb

Kufr Rakeb is a town in in . It is one of the five metropolitan districts of Barqash.
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  • Type: Village with 7,190 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Jordan
  • Also known as: “Kafr Rakib”, “Kafr Rākib”, and “Kufr Rākib”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Der Abi Saeed and Pella.

Town
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is a city in in . It is named after a historic Christian chapel in the place where the city is built. The city gained importance in the early 20th century after the formation of a self-governing body following the fall of the Ottoman Empire. is situated 6 km north of Kufr Rakeb.

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was an ancient city in what is now northwest , and contains ruins from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Canaanite, Hellenistic and Islamic periods.

Kufr Rakeb

Latitude
32.45° or 32° 27′ north
Longitude
35.68333° or 35° 41′ east
Population
7,190
Elevation
536 metres (1,759 feet)
Open location code
8G4QFM2M+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 802803773
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
248722
Wiki­data ID
Q6441918
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Romanian—“Kufr Rakeb” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kufr Rakeb”
  • Arabic: “كفر راكب”
  • Dutch: “Kufr Rakeb”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كفر راكب”
  • French: “Kafr Rakib”
  • German: “Kafr Rakib”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kufr Rakeb”
  • Persian: “کفر راکب”
  • Polish: “Kafr Rakib”
  • Romanian: “Kufr Rakeb”

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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 “Kufr Rakeb”. Photo: ENG MOAD86, CC BY-SA 3.0.