Rafah
Rafah is a largely destroyed and depopulated city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, that serves as the capital of the Rafah Governorate. It is located 30 kilometers south-west of Gaza City.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
- Type: Locality 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: Egypt
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rafah and Bnei Atzmon.
Rafah
Ruins
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Rafah is a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It is the capital of Rafah center in North Sinai Governorate, and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
Bnei Atzmon
Ruins
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Bnei Atzmon was an Israeli settlement previously in the Sinai Peninsula, later moved to the Gaza Strip before being destroyed in 2005.
Pe’at Sade
Ruins
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Pe'at Sadeh was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip that existed until 2005. Pe’at Sade is situated 3½ km north of Rafah.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canada Camp and Al-Mawasi.
Canada Camp
Locality
Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Sinai near Rafah, formed in 1972 and evacuated in 2000. The Camp was named after the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force, which formerly had a camp at the location.
Al-Mawasi
Village
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Al-Mawasi is a fertile area for agriculture in the Gaza Strip. It is along the coast and has many sand dunes. Al-Mawasi is fourteen kilometers long and one kilometer wide, making up about 3% of the Gaza Strip. Al-Mawasi is situated 7 km north of Rafah.
Rafah
- Categories: city and border city
- Location: Rafah Governorate, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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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: “रफ़ह”
- Hindi: “रफ़ा”
- Hungarian: “Rafah”
- Iban: “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: “Refeh”
- Latin: “Raphia”
- 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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