Silwad
Silwad is a Palestinian town located north-east of Ramallah, about 5 km away from the Nablus-Jerusalem highway of the West Bank, in the State of Palestine.- Type: Village with 15,000 residents
- Description: town in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate
- Address: سلواد
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tall Asur and Amona.
Tall Asur
Peak
Tall Asur, (Hebrew: Ba'al-hazor, is an irregularly shaped plateau, marking the geographical boundary between Samaria to its north and Judea to its south.
Amona
Ruins
Amona was an Israeli outpost in the central West Bank. Located on a hill overlooking Ofra within the municipal boundaries of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, the village was founded in 1995 on privately owned Palestinian land. Amona is situated 2½ km southeast of Silwad.
Taybeh Brewery
Building
Taybeh Brewery is a brewery founded in 1994 in the West Bank village of Taybeh, 35 kilometres north of Jerusalem, by Nadim Khoury and his brother David, members of the local Palestinian Christian community. Taybeh Brewery is situated 4 km southeast of Silwad.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yabrud and Ofra.
Yabrud
Village
Yabrud is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank. It is located approximately 13 km northeast of the city of Ramallah and its elevation is 790 m.
Ofra
Village
Ofra is an Israeli settlement located in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank. Located on the main road between Jerusalem and Nablus, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council.
Ein Yabrud
Village
Ein Yabrud is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank. It is located approximately 7 km northeast of the city of Ramallah and its elevation is 800 m. Ein Yabrud is situated 3 km south of Silwad.
Silwad
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.97508° or 31° 58′ 30″ north
Longitude
35.26245° or 35° 15′ 45″ east
Population
15,000
Elevation
844 metres (2,769 feet)
Open location code
8G3QX7G6+2X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Silwad” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سلواد”
- Asturian: “Silwad”
- Bulgarian: “Силуад”
- Catalan: “Silwad”
- Cebuano: “Silwād”
- Chinese: “錫勒瓦德”
- Chinese: “锡勒瓦德”
- Dutch: “Silwad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سلواد”
- Finnish: “Silwad”
- French: “Silwad”
- German: “Silwad”
- Hebrew: “סילואד”
- Hebrew: “סילוואד”
- Italian: “Silwad”
- Japanese: “シルワード”
- Malay: “Silwad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silwad”
- Polish: “Silwad”
- Portuguese: “Silwad”
- Russian: “Сильвад”
- Spanish: “Silwad”
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