Gaza

Gaza City, often simply called Gaza, is a city in the , Palestine, and the capital of the Gaza Governorate. Located on the Mediterranean coast, 76.6 kilometres southwest of , it was home to .
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  • Type: City with 410,000 residents
  • Description: ancient Levantine metropolis and modern city in Gaza Strip
  • Also known as: “`Azzā”, “Azza”, “Azzah”, “Belt ta‘ Gaża”, “Cidade de Gaza”, “Ciudad de Gaza”, “Dakbayan sa Gasa”, “Dakbayan sa Gaza (kapital sa dapit sa Kayutaang Palestinhon)”, “Dakbayan sa Gaza (kapital sa dapit sa Palestinian Territory)”, “Gàsa (baile)”, “Gaz (lidn)”, “Gaza (by)”, “Gaza (grad)”, “Gaza (hiria)”, “Gaza (mesto)”, “Gaza (Palestyna)”, “Gaza (qytet)”, “Gaza (stad)”, “Gaza (Stadt)”, “Gaza By”, “Gaza City”, “Gaza-Stadt”, “Gaza(grad)”, “Gazao”, “Gazao-urbo”, “Gazza”, “Gazzah”, “Ġazzah”, “Ghaza”, “Ghaza-Stadt”, “Ghazah”, “Ghazza”, “Ghazzah”, “Ghazze”, “Ghazzi”, “Ghuzze”, “Governorato di Gaza”, “ʻazza”, “Region de Gaza”, “Región de Gaza”, “Sivdad Azah”, “Sivdad de Azah”, “Ville de Gaza”, “ʕazza”, “Газа (горад)”, “ГӀазза (гӀала)”, “გაზა”, “شهر غره”, “شهر غزه”, “غَزَّة”, “غزه ( قطاع غزه)”, “غەزە”, “مدينة غزة”, “गज़ा”, “गाजा”, “गाज़ा”, “ग़ाजा”, “गाज़ासिटी”, “गाझा शहर”, “ಗಾಜಂ”, “กาซา”, “가자 시”, “ガザ市”, “加沙市”, and “迦薩”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Al-Shifa Hospital and Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist Hospital.

Hospital
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is the largest medical complex and…

Hospital
Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, usually called the…

Church
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The of Gaza City is the only in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jabalia and Tel al-Hawa.

Town
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, also spelled Jabalya, is a city in the…

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in the southern part of the Palestinian city of Gaza.

Village
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is a kibbutz in southern .

Gaza

Latitude
31.5129° or 31° 30′ 46″ north
Longitude
34.4581° or 34° 27′ 29″ east
Population
410,000
Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)
IATA airport code
GZA
UN/LOCODE
PS GZA
Open location code
8G3PGF75+47
Open­Street­Map ID
node 504266619
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
281133
Wiki­data ID
Q47492
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Gaza” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Gaza”
  • Afrikaans: “Gasa”
  • Albanian: “Gaza”
  • Amharic: “ጋዛ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Γάζα”
  • Arabic: “غزة”
  • Aragonese: “Gaza”
  • Armenian: “Գազա”
  • Armenian: “Ղազա”
  • Asturian: “Gaza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəzza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəzzə”
  • Bashkir: “Ғәззә”
  • Basque: “Gaza”
  • Bavarian: “Gaza”
  • Belarusian: “Газа”
  • Bengali: “গাজা শহর”
  • Bengali: “গাজা সিটি”
  • Bengali: “গাজা”
  • Betawi: “Gajah (kota)”
  • Betawi: “Gajah”
  • Bole: “Gaza”
  • Bosnian: “Gaza”
  • Breton: “Gaza”
  • Bulgarian: “Газа”
  • Catalan: “Gaza”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Gaza”
  • Central Kurdish: “غەززە”
  • Chechen: “Газа”
  • Chechen: “ГӀазза”
  • Chinese: “加沙”
  • Chinese: “加薩”
  • Cornish: “Gaza”
  • Croatian: “Gaza”
  • Czech: “Gaza”
  • Danish: “Gaza”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ğeza”
  • Dutch: “Gaza”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “غزه”
  • Esperanto: “Gaza-urbo”
  • Estonian: “Gaza”
  • Finnish: “Gaza”
  • French: “Gaza”
  • Friulian: “Citât di Gaze”
  • Galician: “Gaza, Palestina”
  • Galician: “Gaza”
  • Georgian: “ღაზა”
  • German: “Gaza”
  • Greek: “Γάζα”
  • Gujarati: “ગાઝા શહેર”
  • Hausa: “Birnin Gaza”
  • Hausa: “Gaza”
  • Hebrew: “עזה”
  • Hindi: “ग़ज़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Gáza”
  • Iban: “Mengeri Gaza”
  • Ido: “Gaza”
  • Indonesian: “Gaza”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Gaza”
  • Interlingue: “Cité de Gaza”
  • Irish: “Cathair Gaza”
  • Irish: “Gaza”
  • Italian: “Gaza”
  • Japanese: “ガザ”
  • Javanese: “Gaza”
  • Kabyle: “Gaza”
  • Kalaallisut: “Gaza”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಜಾ ನಗರ”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಜ಼ಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಝಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “غزہ شَہَر”
  • Kazakh: “Газа”
  • Kirghiz: “Газa”
  • Kirghiz: “Газа”
  • Komering: “Gaza”
  • Korean: “가자”
  • Kurdish: “Xeze”
  • Ladino: “Azah”
  • Latin: “Gaza”
  • Latvian: “Gaza”
  • Lithuanian: “Gaza”
  • Lombard: “Gaza”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gaza-Stad”
  • Macedonian: “Газа”
  • Maithili: “गाजा शहर”
  • Malagasy: “Gaza”
  • Malay: “Gaza”
  • Malay: “غزة”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാസാ നഗരം”
  • Maltese: “Gaża”
  • Maori: “Kāha”
  • Marathi: “गाझा”
  • Mazanderani: “غزه (شهر)”
  • Mazanderani: “غزه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gaza”
  • Mingrelian: “ღაზა”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “غزة”
  • Nepali: “गाजा शहर”
  • Nepali: “गाजा सहर”
  • North Levantine Arabic: “غزّة”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gaza Stääd”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gaza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gaza by”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gaza”
  • Norwegian: “Gaza”
  • Novial: “Gaza”
  • Obolo: “Gaza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gaza”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gaza”
  • Oromo: “Gaaza”
  • Ossetian: “Газæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਗ਼ਜ਼ਾ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Gaza”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Gaesa”
  • Persian: “غزه”
  • Polish: “Gaza”
  • Portuguese: “Gaza”
  • Pushto: “د غزې ښار”
  • Pushto: “غزه”
  • Romanian: “Gaza”
  • Russian: “Газа”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱟᱡᱟ”
  • Scots: “Gaza Ceety”
  • Scots: “Gaza”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gàsa”
  • Serbian: “Газа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gaza”
  • Sicilian: “Gaza”
  • Silesian: “Gaza”
  • Sindhi: “غزه شهر”
  • Sinhala: “ගාසා නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Gaza”
  • Slovenian: “Gaza”
  • Somali: “Gaza”
  • Spanish: “Gaza”
  • Swahili: “Gaza”
  • Swedish: “Gaza”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Gaza”
  • Tajik: “Ƣazza”
  • Tajik: “Ғазза”
  • Tamil: “காசா நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “காசா”
  • Tatar: “Газзә”
  • Telugu: “గజా నగరం”
  • Thai: “นครกาซา”
  • Turkish: “Gazze”
  • Ukrainian: “Газа”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґаза”
  • Urdu: “غزہ شہر”
  • Urdu: “غزہ”
  • Uzbek: “Gaza”
  • Uzbek: “Gʻazza”
  • Venetian: “Gaza”
  • Veps: “Gaz”
  • Vietnamese: “Gaza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gaza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Gaza”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Gaza”
  • Welsh: “Gaza”
  • Western Armenian: “Գազա”
  • Western Panjabi: “غزہ شہر”
  • Western Panjabi: “غزہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “加沙城”
  • Yakut: “Газа”
  • Yiddish: “עזה”
  • Yue Chinese: “加沙”
  • Zeeuws: “Gaza”
  • “Gaza”
  • “ma tomo Kasa”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Gaza”.

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Saknat az Zarqa and Sabra.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: potential safe assembly area and سوق اليرموك الشعبي.

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Worth a closer look: Bethlehem and Ramallah.

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