Qumran
The Dead Sea has its western coast in Israel and the West Bank. 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.- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: archaeological site in the Palestinian Authority, West Bank
- Also known as: “Khirbat Qumran” and “Khirbat Qumrān”
- Neighbors: Dead Sea
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kalya and Almog.
Kalya
Village
Kalya is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the West Bank. 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.
Almog
Village
Almog is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, near the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea, in the Jordan Rift Valley, organized as a kibbutz. It is under the jurisdiction of the Megilot Regional Council. Almog is situated 5 km north of Qumran.
Ovnat
Village
Ovnat is a small Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Palestine, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, about 7 km south of Kalya and 12 km north of Mitzpe Shalem. Ovnat is situated 7 km south of Qumran.
Qumran
- Categories: archaeological site, Jewish settlement in the land of Israel, national park, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Central District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Urdu: “خربہ قمران”
- Vietnamese: “Qumran”
- Waray (Philippines): “Qumran”
- Western Frisian: “Qumran”
- Yue Chinese: “昆蘭”
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