Ras Karkar
Ras Karkar is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, located 11 kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank.- Type: Village with 1,640 residents
- Description: municipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate
- Also known as: “Ra’s Karkar” and “רס כרכר”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Janiya and Kafr Ni’ma.
Ras Karkar
- Category: locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.94234° or 31° 56′ 32″ north
Longitude
35.10436° or 35° 6′ 16″ east
Population
1,640
Elevation
479 metres (1,572 feet)
Open location code
8G3QW4R3+WP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Polish—“Ras Karkar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رأس كركر”
- Arabic: “راس كركر”
- Catalan: “Ras Karkar”
- Cebuano: “Rās Karkar”
- Chinese: “拉斯卡卡爾”
- Dutch: “Ras Karkar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “راس كاركار”
- French: “Ras Karkar”
- Hebrew: “ראס כרכר”
- Indonesian: “Ras Karkar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ras Karkar”
- Polish: “Ras Karkar”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Ras Karkar and Sde Ephraim.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Ras Karkar Mosque and Ebn Samhan Castle.
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Worth a closer look: Bethlehem and Ramallah.
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