Umm Safa
Umm Safa/Kafr Ishwa or Um Al-Safa is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: יורם שורק, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 604 residents
- Description: municipality type D in Ramallah and al-Bireh, State of Palestine
- Also known as: “Kafr Ashwa‘”, “Kafr Ishwa”, “Um es Saf”, “Um es Safa”, “Um Safa”, and “Umm Şafā”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jibiya and Hovlata.
Jibiya
Residential area
Jibiya is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. It was founded after the 16th century. It is mentioned in text from 1697.
Hovlata
Archaeological site
Photo: Amos1947, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hovlata is an archaeological site, which is situated 3½ km west of Umm Safa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ateret and Ajjul.
Ateret
Village
Photo: Sir Shurf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ateret is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement in the West Bank. Located in the municipal jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, it is located on a hilltop, at an elevation of 760 metres, occupying land confiscated by Israel from three nearby Palestinian villages: Ajjul, 'Atara, and Umm Safa.
Ajjul
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ajjul is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, located north of Ramallah. There are two archaeological sites or khirbets to the east of the village.
Burham
Village
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Burham is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate located twelve kilometers north of Ramallah. The largest nearby town is Bir Zeit located to the southeast.
Umm Safa
- Category: locality
- Location: Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.00838° or 32° 0′ 30″ northLongitude
35.16589° or 35° 9′ 57″ eastPopulation
604Elevation
616 metres (2,021 feet)Open location code
8G4Q2558+99OpenStreetMap ID
node 432264959OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
281441Wikidata ID
Q33510378
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Hebrew—“Umm Safa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أم صفا”
- Arabic: “ام صفا”
- Bengali: “উম্মে সাফা”
- Cebuano: “Umm Şafā”
- Dutch: “Umm Safa”
- Dutch: “Umm Şafā”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ام صفا”
- French: “Um Al-Safa”
- French: “Umm Safa”
- Hebrew: “אום צפא”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Umm Safa”. Photo: יורם שורק, CC BY-SA 4.0.