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Deir al-Balah Governorate

Deir el-Balah

Deir al-Balah is a city in the center of the , , and the administrative capital of the . It is located over 14 kilometers south of .
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  • Type: Town with 49,800 residents
  • Description: city in the State of Palestine
  • Also known as: “Belar”, “Dair Al Balah”, “Dayr al-Balah”, “Deir al-Balah”, “Der el Bela”, and “Dier El Balah”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kfar Darom and Deir El Belah War Cemetery.

Ruins
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 3.0.
was a kibbutz and an Israeli settlement within the Gush Katif bloc in the .

Cemetery
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The Deir El Balah War Cemetery was established in March 1917. After the Armistice of Mudros ended the Ottoman Empire's participation in the First World War, some graves were relocated from nearby to the Deir El Balah War Cemetery.

Ruins
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was a small Israeli settlement located in the northeast end of the Gush Katif settlement bloc of the , and evacuated in Israel's disengagement of 2005. is situated 4 km southwest of Deir el-Balah.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nuseirat refugee camp and Al Maghazi Refugee Camp.

Town
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Nuseirat Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the middle of the , five kilometers north-east of Deir al-Balah. The refugee camp is in the , Gaza Strip. is situated 5 km northeast of Deir el-Balah.

Suburb
Maghazi is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the in the central . It was established in 1949. The camp is built on 559 dunums. is situated 3½ km east of Deir el-Balah.

Suburb
Deir al-Balah Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp in the of the southern , located one kilometer northwest of the center of Deir al-Balah city, of which it practically forms part.

Deir el-Balah

Latitude
31.4183° or 31° 25′ 6″ north
Longitude
34.3502° or 34° 21′ 1″ east
Population
49,800
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Open location code
8G3PC992+83
Open­Street­Map ID
node 505035532
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
281141
Wiki­data ID
Q557383
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Deir el-Balah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دير البلح”
  • Arabic: “دير الخضر”
  • Arabic: “دير داروم”
  • Arabic: “دير مار جرجس”
  • Aragonese: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Asturian: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Basque: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Basque: “Deir el-Balah”
  • Bengali: “দইরুল বলহ”
  • Catalan: “Al-Darum”
  • Catalan: “Daron”
  • Catalan: “Darum”
  • Catalan: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Cebuano: “Dayr al Balaḩ”
  • Central Kurdish: “دێر بەلەح”
  • Chinese: “代尔拜莱赫”
  • Chinese: “代爾巴拉”
  • Chinese: “代爾拜萊赫”
  • Chinese: “達魯姆”
  • Czech: “Dajr al-Balah”
  • Danish: “Dair Al Balah”
  • Danish: “Dayr al-Balah”
  • Danish: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Dutch: “Dayr al Balah”
  • Dutch: “Dayr al-Balah”
  • Dutch: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دير البلح”
  • Esperanto: “Deir el-Balah”
  • Finnish: “Deir al-Balah”
  • French: “Deir el-Balah”
  • German: “Dair al-Balah”
  • German: “Deir al-Balah”
  • German: “Deir Al-Balah”
  • German: “Deir el-Balah”
  • Greek: “Ντέιρ αλ-Μπάλαχ”
  • Hebrew: “דיר אל בלח”
  • Hebrew: “דיר אל-בלאח”
  • Hebrew: “דיר אל-בלח”
  • Hindi: “दीर अल बाला”
  • Indonesian: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Italian: “Dayr al-Balah”
  • Italian: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Japanese: “ディール・バラフ”
  • Japanese: “デイル・アル・バラ”
  • Japanese: “デイル・アル・バラフ”
  • Japanese: “デイル・アル＝バラフ”
  • Japanese: “デル・エル・バラ”
  • Korean: “데이르 알 발라흐”
  • Korean: “데이르알발라”
  • Latvian: “Deirelbeleha”
  • Lithuanian: “Deir al Balachas”
  • North Levantine Arabic: “دير البلح”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dayr al Balah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dayr al-Balah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Deir al Balah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Deir el-Balah”
  • Norwegian: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Norwegian: “Deir el-Balah”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dætumpalmaburh”
  • Persian: “دیر البلح”
  • Polish: “Dajr al-Balah”
  • Polish: “Dejr al-Balah”
  • Portuguese: “Dayr al-Balah”
  • Portuguese: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Portuguese: “Deir el-Balah”
  • Russian: “Дейр аль-Балах”
  • Russian: “Дейр-эль-Балах”
  • Scots: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Scots: “Deir el-Balah”
  • Slovenian: “Dair Al Balah”
  • Slovenian: “Deir Al Balah”
  • Spanish: “Dair Al Balah”
  • Spanish: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Swedish: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Turkish: “Deir al Balah”
  • Turkish: “Deyr El Balah”
  • Ukrainian: “Дейр аль-Балах”
  • Urdu: “دیر البلح”
  • Welsh: “Dayr al-Balah”
  • Welsh: “Deir al-Balah”
  • Welsh: “Deir el-Balah”
  • Zeeuws: “Dayr al-Balah”

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