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.
- Type: Locality with 126,000 residents
- Description: city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine
- Also known as: “Er Rafa”, “Rafaa”, “Rafaĥ”, “Rafaḥ”, “Rafáh”, “Rafah City”, “Rafia”, “Rafià”, “Rafiah”, “Rafīah”, “Rafihu”, “Raphiah”, “Rəfah”, “Rifah”, “Robihwa”, “רפיח העזתית”, “رفح الفلسطينية”, “ரபாஹ்”, “ราฟาร์ห”, “ラファ”, “ラファー”, “ラファハ”, “拉法”, and “拉法拉法赫”
- Neighbors: Egypt
Places of Interest
Highlights: Rafah and Bnei Atzmon.
Rafah
Ruins
Pe’at Sade
Ruins
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canada Camp and Al-Mawasi.
Al-Mawasi
Village
Rafah
- Categories: city and border city
- Location: Rafah Governorate, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.2972° or 31° 17′ 50″ north
Longitude
34.2436° or 34° 14′ 37″ east
Population
126,000
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Open location code
8G3P76WV+VC
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Aragonese: “Rafah”
- Asturian: “Rafah”
- Azerbaijani: “Rafah”
- Basque: “Rafah”
- Bavarian: “Rafah”
- Belarusian: “Рафах”
- Bengali: “রাফাহ”
- Bulgarian: “Рафах”
- Catalan: “Rafah”
- Catalan: “Ràfia”
- Cebuano: “Rafaḩ”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕەفەح”
- Chinese: “拉法市”
- Chinese: “拉法赫”
- Corsican: “Rafah”
- Czech: “Rafah”
- Danish: “Rafah”
- Dutch: “Rafah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رفح”
- Esperanto: “Rafah”
- Estonian: “Rafaḩ”
- Finnish: “Rafah”
- French: “Rafah”
- Galician: “Rafa, Palestina”
- Galician: “Rafa”
- German: “Rafah”
- Gorontalo: “Rafah”
- Greek: “Ράφα”
- Greek: “Ράφαχ”
- Gujarati: “રફાહ”
- Hausa: “Rafah”
- Hebrew: “רפיח”
- Hindi: “रफ़ह”
- Hindi: “रफ़ा”
- Hungarian: “Rafah”
- Iban: “Rafah”
- Indonesian: “Rafah”
- Irish: “Rafah”
- Italian: “Rafah”
- 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”
- 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”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rafa”
- Sinhala: “රෆා”
- Slovenian: “Rafa, Gaza”
- Slovenian: “Rafa”
- Spanish: “Rafah”
- Swedish: “Rafah”
- Tamil: “ரஃபா”
- Tamil: “ராஃஆ”
- Telugu: “రాఫాహ్”
- 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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