Sir
Sir is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the West Bank, located 18 kilometers south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 769 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 857 by 2017.Photo: Xxxmatrex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 857 residents
- Description: village council in Jenin Governorate
- Also known as: “Şīr” and “Sir, Jenin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sanour Meadow.
Sanour Meadow
Photo: Xxxmatrex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Marj Sanur (Arabic: مرج صانور, translation: "Sanur Valley"; also called Marj al-Ghuruq, translation: "Drowning Valley" is a closed basin within the northern mountains of the West Bank, located entirely in the southern Jenin Governorate, in between the cities of Jenin and Nablus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zababdeh and Kufeir.
Zababdeh
Village
Photo: MortenNL, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zababdeh or Zababida is a town in the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 15 kilometres southeast of Jenin and 2 kilometres from the Arab American University. Zababdeh is situated 2½ km north of Sir.
Kufeir
Hamlet
Kufeir is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate. Kufeir is situated 2½ km east of Sir.
Al-Judeida
Village
Al-Judeida is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the western area of the West Bank, located 14 kilometres south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 4,738 in the 2007 census and 5,950 by 2017. Al-Judeida is situated 3½ km southwest of Sir.
Sir
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.36335° or 32° 21′ 48″ northLongitude
35.31443° or 35° 18′ 52″ eastPopulation
857Elevation
473 metres (1,552 feet)Open location code
8G4Q9877+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 332785749OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
281773Wikidata ID
Q12220445
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Polish—“Sir” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Şīr”
- Arabic: “صير، جنين”
- Arabic: “صير”
- Arabic: “صير”
- Catalan: “Sir”
- Cebuano: “Şīr”
- Dutch: “Sir, Jenin”
- Dutch: “Şīr”
- French: “Sir (Jénine)”
- French: “Sir”
- Hebrew: “סיר”
- Hebrew: “ציר (כפר)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sir i Jenin”
- Polish: “Sir”
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