Kharas
Kharas is a Palestinian town in the southern State of Palestine, located twelve kilometers northwest of Hebron, part of the Hebron Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 9,139 inhabitants in 2017.
- Type: Town with 6,670 residents
- Description: municipality in Hebron Governorate
- Also known as: “بلدية خاراس” and “خاراس”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nuba and Hitta.
Hitta
Village
Hatta is a Palestinian village located in the Hebron Governorate, in the southern West Bank.
Kharas
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.61402° or 31° 36′ 51″ north
Longitude
35.04179° or 35° 2′ 31″ east
Population
6,670
Elevation
558 metres (1,831 feet)
Open location code
8G3QJ27R+JP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Kharas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خاراس”
- Asturian: “Kharas”
- Basque: “Kharas”
- Catalan: “Kharas”
- Cebuano: “Khārās”
- Czech: “Chárás”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خاراس”
- French: “Kharas”
- Hebrew: “ח’אראס”
- Hebrew: “ח’ראס”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kharas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kharas”
- Norwegian: “Kharas”
- Polish: “Kharas”
- Russian: “Харас”
- Urdu: “خاراس”
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