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Qalandia

Qalandia or Qalandiya, also known as Kalandia, is a Palestinian village located in the , between and , just west of the West Bank barrier.
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Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Village with 572 residents
  • Description: Palestinian village located in the West Bank
  • Also known as: “Kalandia”, “Kalendieh”, “Kulundia”, “Qalandiya”, “Qalandīyah”, and “Qalandye”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jerusalem Airport and Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium.

Aerodrome
Photo: Ehudg, Public domain.
Jerusalem International Airport was a regional airport located in the city of . When it was opened in 1925, it was the first airport in the British Mandate for Palestine.

Stadium
is an association football stadium on Dahiat al'Barid Street of in Jerusalem Governorate, . It is one of the home stadiums of the Palestine national football team. is situated 3 km southeast of Qalandia.

Prison
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.
Ofer Prison, formerly officially known as Incarceration Facility 385, is an Israeli military incarceration facility in the Israeli-occupied , between and . is situated 2½ km west of Qalandia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al Judeira and Atarot industrial zone.

Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Palestinian village in the of the State of Palestine, in the central . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,634 in 2017.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Atarot was a moshav in Mandatory Palestine, north of along the highway to Ramallah. It was named after the biblical Atarot mentioned in Joshua 16:2, which is believed to have been situated nearby.

Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Palestinian enclave town in the located eight kilometers northeast of , in . In mid-year 2006, it had an estimated population of 6,100 residents.

Qalandia

Latitude
31.86337° or 31° 51′ 48″ north
Longitude
35.20715° or 35° 12′ 26″ east
Population
572
Elevation
765 metres (2,510 feet)
Open location code
8G3QV674+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 334470035
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
282461
Wiki­data ID
Q94800
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Qalandia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلنديا”
  • Arabic: “قلنديا‎”
  • Arabic: “قلندية”
  • Catalan: “Kalandia”
  • Cebuano: “Qalandiyā”
  • Chinese: “卡兰迪亚”
  • Chinese: “卡蘭蒂雅”
  • Czech: “Kalandija”
  • Dutch: “Kalandia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كالانديا”
  • French: “Kalandia”
  • German: “Kalandia”
  • German: “Qalandia”
  • Hebrew: “קלנדיה”
  • Italian: “Kalandia”
  • Italian: “Qalandiya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalandiya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qalandia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qalandiya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qalandiya”
  • Norwegian: “Qalandiya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kalandia”
  • Persian: “قلندیا”
  • Polish: “Muchajjam Kalandija”
  • Russian: “Каландия”
  • Spanish: “Kalandia”
  • Vietnamese: “Kalandia”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Rafat and Kafr ’Aqab.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Qalandya Mosque and Cemetery.

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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 Wikipedia page “Qalandia”. Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.