Palestine
Gaza Strip
Rafah Governorate

Rafah

Rafah was a city in the southern , , that served as the capital of the . It was located 30 kilometers south-west of .
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  • Type: Town with 126,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine
  • Also known as: “Er Rafa”, “Rafa”, “Rafaa”, “Rafaḥ”, “Rafah City”, “Rafīah”, “Raphia”, “Raphiah”, and “Rifah”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rafah and Rafah Border Crossing.

Ruins
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was a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the , . It was the capital of center in , and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.

Border checkpoint
Photo: Gigi Ibrahim, Public domain.
The or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between and 's and Gaza's sole border point with a country other than .

Ruins
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Yasser Arafat International Airport was an in the . It was located between Rafah and Dahaniya, close to the border. The facility was built as a result of the Oslo Accords and opened on 24 November 1998 as Gaza International Airport. is situated 4 km southeast of Rafah.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rafah Refugee Camp and Shokat as-Sufi.

Suburb
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Rafah Camp is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the . It is located in the along the Gaza–Egypt border. It was established in 1949 and currently forms part of the city of Rafah.

Village
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is a Palestinian town under Israeli occupation in the southern , south of Rafah and adjacent to the inoperable .

Village
is a Palestinian village in the eastern located in the southern . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 5,648 in 2006. is situated 5 km east of Rafah.

Rafah

Latitude
31.2752° or 31° 16′ 31″ north
Longitude
34.2558° or 34° 15′ 21″ east
Population
126,000
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Open location code
8G3P77G4+38
Open­Street­Map ID
node 322022888
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
281102
Wiki­data ID
Q172343
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Rafah” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Rafah”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ῥαφία”
  • Arabic: “رفح الفلسطينية”
  • Arabic: “رفح”
  • Aragonese: “Rafah”
  • Asturian: “Rafah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rafah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rəfah”
  • Basque: “Rafah”
  • Bavarian: “Rafah”
  • Belarusian: “Рафа”
  • Belarusian: “Рафах”
  • Bengali: “রাফাহ”
  • Bulgarian: “Рафа”
  • Bulgarian: “Рафах”
  • Catalan: “Rafà”
  • Catalan: “Rafah”
  • Catalan: “Rafià”
  • Catalan: “Ràfia”
  • Cebuano: “Rafaḩ”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕەفەح”
  • Chinese: “拉法”
  • Chinese: “拉法城”
  • Chinese: “拉法市”
  • Chinese: “拉法拉法赫”
  • Chinese: “拉法赫”
  • Corsican: “Rafah”
  • Czech: “Rafa”
  • Czech: “Rafah”
  • Czech: “Rafáh”
  • Danish: “Rafah”
  • Dutch: “Rafa”
  • Dutch: “Rafah”
  • Dutch: “Rafiah”
  • Dutch: “Raphiah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رفح”
  • Esperanto: “Rafah”
  • Esperanto: “Rafaĥ”
  • Estonian: “Rafah”
  • Estonian: “Rafaḩ”
  • Finnish: “Rafah”
  • French: “Rafah”
  • Galician: “Rafa, Palestina”
  • Galician: “Rafa”
  • Galician: “Rafah”
  • German: “Rafah”
  • Gorontalo: “Rafah”
  • Greek: “Ράφα”
  • Greek: “Ράφαχ”
  • Gujarati: “રફાહ”
  • Hausa: “Rafah”
  • Hebrew: “רפיח העזתית”
  • Hebrew: “רפיח”
  • Hindi: “रफ़ा”
  • Hindi: “रफाह”
  • Hindi: “राफह”
  • Hindi: “रेफ़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Rafah”
  • Indonesian: “Rafah”
  • Irish: “Rafah”
  • Italian: “Rafah”
  • Italian: “Raphia”
  • Japanese: “ラファ”
  • Japanese: “ラファー”
  • Japanese: “ラファハ”
  • Japanese: “ラファフ”
  • Kannada: “ರಫಾಹ್”
  • Kashmiri: “رَفَح”
  • Korean: “라파”
  • Kurdish: “Refah”
  • Kurdish: “Refeh”
  • Latvian: “Rafa”
  • Latvian: “Rafaha”
  • Lithuanian: “Rafa”
  • Lithuanian: “Rafachas”
  • Malay: “Rafah”
  • Maltese: “Rafah”
  • Marathi: “रफा”
  • Mazanderani: “رفح”
  • Mingrelian: “რაფაჰი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rafah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rafah”
  • Norwegian: “Rafah”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rafà”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rafah”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rafæ”
  • Ossetian: “Рафах”
  • Persian: “رفح”
  • Polish: “Rafah”
  • Portuguese: “Rafa”
  • Portuguese: “Rafah”
  • Pushto: “رفح”
  • Romanian: “Rafah”
  • Russian: “Рафах”
  • Scots: “Rafah”
  • Serbian: “Rafa”
  • Serbian: “Рафа”
  • Serbian: “Рафах”
  • Serbian: “رفح”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rafa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rafah”
  • Sinhala: “රෆා”
  • Slovenian: “Rafa, Gaza”
  • Slovenian: “Rafa”
  • Slovenian: “Rafah”
  • Spanish: “Rafah”
  • Spanish: “Rafáh”
  • Spanish: “Rafihu”
  • Spanish: “Robihwa”
  • Swedish: “Rafah”
  • Swedish: “Rafia”
  • Tamil: “ரஃபா”
  • Tamil: “ரபாஹ்”
  • Tamil: “ராஃஆ”
  • Telugu: “రాఫాహ్”
  • Thai: “ราฟาร์ห”
  • Thai: “ราฟาฮ์”
  • Thai: “เราะฟะห์”
  • Turkish: “Refah”
  • Ukrainian: “Рафах”
  • Urdu: “رفح”
  • Venetian: “Rafah”
  • Vietnamese: “Rafah”
  • Welsh: “Rafah”
  • Western Panjabi: “رفح”
  • Yakut: “Рафаах”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉法城”
  • Zeeuws: “Rafah”

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