Middle East
Israel
Central District

Qumran

The Dead Sea has its western coast in and the . It is the lowest point in the world at 394.6 m below sea level. 25 km of Dead Sea coastline lie within Palestinian Authority territory, including Qumran and Ein Feshka.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: archaeological site in the Palestinian Authority, West Bank
  • Also known as: “Khirbat Qumran” and “Khirbat Qumrān”
  • Neighbors:

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kalya and Almog.

Village
Photo: Donatus, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the . It was originally established in 1929 but was occupied and destroyed by the Jordanians in 1948; it was later rebuilt in 1968 after the Six-Day War.

Village
Photo: Dvirraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an Israeli settlement in the , near the northwestern shores of the , in the Jordan Rift Valley, organized as a kibbutz. It is under the jurisdiction of the Megilot Regional Council. is situated 5 km north of Qumran.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small Israeli settlement in the , , on the western shore of the , about 7 km south of Kalya and 12 km north of . is situated 7 km south of Qumran.

Qumran

Latitude
31.741° or 31° 44′ 28″ north
Longitude
35.45894° or 35° 27′ 32″ east
Elevation
-332 metres (-1,089 feet)
Open location code
8G3QPFR5+9H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 611895589
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
282303
Wiki­data ID
Q223399
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Qumran” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خربة قمران”
  • Arabic: “قمران كهف”
  • Basque: “Qumran”
  • Bulgarian: “Кумран”
  • Catalan: “Qumram”
  • Catalan: “Qumran”
  • Chinese: “库姆兰”
  • Chinese: “昆蘭”
  • Croatian: “Kumran”
  • Czech: “Chirbet Kumrán”
  • Czech: “Chirbet Qumran”
  • Czech: “Kumrán”
  • Czech: “Qumran”
  • Danish: “Qumran”
  • Danish: “Qumranom”
  • Dutch: “Qumran”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وادى قمران”
  • Esperanto: “Kumrano”
  • Esperanto: “Qumran”
  • Estonian: “Kumran”
  • Finnish: “Qumran”
  • French: “Khirbet Qumran”
  • French: “Qoumran”
  • French: “Qoumrân”
  • French: “Qumran”
  • French: “Qumrân”
  • German: “Kumran”
  • German: “Qumran-Sekte”
  • German: “Qumran”
  • Hebrew: “קומראן”
  • Hebrew: “קומרן”
  • Hungarian: “Kumrán”
  • Hungarian: “Qumrán”
  • Indonesian: “Qumran”
  • Interlingua: “Qumran”
  • Interlingua: “Rolos del Mar Morte”
  • Interlingua: “Textos de Qumran”
  • Italian: “Qumram”
  • Italian: “Qumran”
  • Japanese: “クムラン”
  • Japanese: “クムラン教団”
  • Korean: “쿰란”
  • Korean: “키르벳 쿰란”
  • Latin: “Qumran”
  • Latvian: “Kumrāna”
  • Macedonian: “Кумран”
  • Malagasy: “Komràno”
  • Malayalam: “Qumran”
  • Malayalam: “കുമ്രാൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ഖുംറാൻ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qumran”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wadi Qumran”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qumran”
  • Norwegian: “Qumran”
  • Persian: “قمران”
  • Polish: “Kumran”
  • Polish: “Qumran”
  • Polish: “Qumrān”
  • Portuguese: “Khirbet Qumran”
  • Portuguese: “Qumram”
  • Portuguese: “Qumran”
  • Portuguese: “Qumrán”
  • Romanian: “Qumran”
  • Russian: “Кумран”
  • Sardinian: “Qumran”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kumran”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Qumran”
  • Slovak: “Chirba Kumrán”
  • Slovak: “Chirbet Kumrán”
  • Slovak: “Kumran”
  • Slovak: “Kumrán”
  • Slovak: “Qumran”
  • Spanish: “Qumram”
  • Spanish: “Qumran”
  • Spanish: “Qumrán”
  • Swedish: “Khirbet Qumran”
  • Swedish: “Kumran”
  • Swedish: “Qumran”
  • Swedish: “Qumransekten”
  • Tamil: “கும்ரான்”
  • Turkish: “Kumran”
  • Ukrainian: “Кумран”
  • Vietnamese: “Qumran”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Qumran”
  • Western Frisian: “Qumran”
  • Yue Chinese: “昆蘭”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Qumran”. Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.