Khan Yunis
Khan Yunis, also spelled Khan Younis or Khan Yunus, is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, and serves as the capital of the Khan Yunis Governorate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 205,000 residents
- Description: City in Gaza Strip, State of Palestine
- Also known as: “Chan Junis”, “Hanūt Yōnā”, “Khan Younes”, “Khan Younis”, “Khan Yumus”, “Khān Yūnus”, “Yunas”, and “Yunus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Neve Dekalim and Gadid.
Neve Dekalim
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Neve Dekalim was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip. Comprising a part of Gush Katif, it was founded in 1983, shortly after Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula to fulfill the Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
Gadid
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gadid was an Israeli settlement and Moshav located in the middle of the Gush Katif settlement bloc whose residents were expelled in Israel's disengagement of 2005.
Ganei Tal
Ruins
Photo: מיכאלי, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Ganei Tal was an Israeli settlement in the south of the Gaza Strip, located in the Gush Katif settlement bloc. It was under the jurisdiction of Hof Aza Regional Council. Ganei Tal is situated 3½ km north of Khan Yunis.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khan Yunis Camp and Bani Suheila.
Khan Yunis Camp
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
The Khan Yunis refugee camp, also called Khan Yunis Camp, is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Khan Yunis Governorate just west of the city of Khan Yunis and two kilometers east of the Mediterranean coast in the southern Gaza Strip.
Bani Suheila
Town
Bani Suheila is a municipality in the Gaza Strip, in the Khan Yunis Governorate of the State of Palestine. The town is located 2 km east of the city of Khan Younis. As of 2017, Bani Suheila had a population of 41,439 people.
Abasan al-Kabira
Town
Photo: Moonguard, Public domain.
Abasan al-Kabira is a Palestinian city located in the Khan Yunis Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the southern Gaza Strip. It is connected with Khan Yunis city by a local street that crosses other villages like Bani Suheila and Khuza'a. Abasan al-Kabira is situated 4½ km southeast of Khan Yunis.
Khan Yunis
- Categories: city, big city, and locality
- Location: Khan Yunis Governorate, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.3443° or 31° 20′ 40″ northLongitude
34.3096° or 34° 18′ 35″ eastPopulation
205,000Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)Open location code
8G3P88V5+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 299944872OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
281124Wikidata ID
Q309348
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Khan Yunis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حي الأمل”
- Arabic: “خان يونس”
- Arabic: “خانيونس”
- Arabic: “مخيم خانيونس”
- Aragonese: “Khan Yunis”
- Armenian: “Խան Յունիս”
- Asturian: “Khan Yunis”
- Azerbaijani: “Xan-Yunis”
- Basque: “Jan Yunis”
- Basque: “Khan Yunis”
- Belarusian: “Хан Юніс”
- Belarusian: “Хан-Юніс”
- Bengali: “খান ইউনুস”
- Bulgarian: “Хан Юнис”
- Catalan: “Khan Yunis”
- Cebuano: “Khān Yūnis”
- Central Kurdish: “خان یوونس”
- Chinese: “汉尤尼斯”
- Chinese: “汗尤尼斯”
- Chinese: “罕尤尼斯”
- Czech: “Chan Junis”
- Czech: “Chán Júnis”
- Danish: “Khan Younis”
- Dutch: “Han Yunis”
- Dutch: “Khan Younis”
- Dutch: “Khan Yunis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خان يونس”
- Esperanto: “Ĥan Junis”
- Estonian: “Khan Younis”
- Estonian: “Khan Yunis”
- Estonian: “Khān Yūnis”
- Finnish: “Han Junis”
- Finnish: “Khan Yunis”
- French: “Khan Younes”
- French: “Khan Younès”
- French: “Khan Younis”
- Galician: “Khan Yunis”
- German: “Chan Junis”
- German: “Chan Yunis”
- German: “Chān Yūnis”
- German: “Khan Younis”
- German: “Khan Yunis”
- German: “Khan Yunus”
- Greek: “Χαν Γιουνίς”
- Gujarati: “ખાન યુનિસ”
- Hausa: “Khan Yunis”
- Hebrew: “ח’אן יוניס”
- Hebrew: “ח’אן יונס”
- Hebrew: “חאן יוניס”
- Hebrew: “חאן יונס”
- Hebrew: “חאן-יונס”
- Hebrew: “חן יונס”
- Hindi: “खान युनुस”
- Hindi: “खान यूनिस”
- Hungarian: “Hán Júnisz”
- Indonesian: “Khan Yunis”
- Irish: “Khan Yunis”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Khan Yunis”
- Italian: “Khan Younis”
- Italian: “Khan Yunis”
- Japanese: “ハーン・ユーニス”
- Japanese: “ハーンユーニス”
- Kannada: “ಖಾನ್ ಯುನಿಸ್”
- Korean: “칸유니스”
- Korean: “한 유니스”
- Latvian: “Hanjunisa”
- Latvian: “Hānjūnisa”
- Lithuanian: “Chan Junisas”
- Malay: “Khan Yunis”
- Marathi: “खान युनिस”
- Mingrelian: “ხან-იუნისი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khan Younis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khan Yunis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khan Yunis”
- Norwegian: “Khan Younis”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cāhnyūnis”
- Persian: “خان یونس”
- Persian: “خانیونس”
- Polish: “Chan Junis”
- Polish: “Chan Junus”
- Portuguese: “Khan Younis”
- Portuguese: “Khan Yunis”
- Pushto: “خان يونس”
- Romanian: “Khan Yunis”
- Russian: “Хан-Юнис”
- Scots: “Khan Yunis”
- Serbian: “Kan Junis”
- Serbian: “Кан Јунис”
- Serbian: “Хан Јунис”
- Serbian: “خان يونس”
- Sinhala: “ඛාන් යුනිස්”
- Slovenian: “Han Junis”
- Slovenian: “Khan Yunis”
- Spanish: “Jan Younis”
- Spanish: “Jan Yunis”
- Spanish: “Jan Yunís”
- Spanish: “Khan Younis”
- Spanish: “Khan Yunis”
- Swedish: “Khan Younis”
- Swedish: “Khan Yunis”
- Tamil: “கான் யூனிசு”
- Tamil: “கான் யூனிஸ்”
- Telugu: “ఖాన్ యూనిస్”
- Thai: “ข่าน ยูนิส”
- Turkish: “Han Yunus”
- Turkish: “Khan Yunis”
- Ukrainian: “Хан-Юніс”
- Urdu: “خان یونس”
- Venetian: “Khan Yunis”
- Vietnamese: “Khan Yunis”
- Welsh: “Khan Yunis”
- Western Panjabi: “خان یونس”
- Zeeuws: “Khan Yunis”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Khan Younis Municipality and مديرية العمل خانيونس.
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