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Jit

Jit is a Palestinian town in the northern , located 10 kilometers west of . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,405 inhabitants in 2017.
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  • Type: Village with 2,240 residents
  • Description: village in Qalqilya Governorate
  • Also known as: “Jīt”, “Jit, Qalqilya”, “Jītt”, and “Qaryat Jīt”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Park HaTznirim.

Park
Photo: יאיר דב, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Havat Gil’ad and Sarra.

Village
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Havat Gilad is an Israeli settlement in the , which was established as an unauthorized outpost in 2002, after which it was dismantled by official forces and rebuilt by settlers several times until being granted legal status by the Israeli government in February 2018.

Village
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is a Palestinian town in the in northern , located 11 kilometers southwest of . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 3,384 inhabitants in 2017.

Village
Photo: יורם שורק, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, is an Israeli settlement in the northern . Founded on Hanukkah 1975 by members of the Gush Emunim settlement movement, it later became a local council.

Jit

Latitude
32.21152° or 32° 12′ 42″ north
Longitude
35.17176° or 35° 10′ 18″ east
Population
2,240
Elevation
502 metres (1,647 feet)
Open location code
8G4Q656C+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432313306
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
283449
Wiki­data ID
Q6203219
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Persian—“Jit” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جيت”
  • Catalan: “Jit”
  • Dutch: “Jit, Qalqilya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيت”
  • French: “Jit (Qalqilya)”
  • French: “Jit”
  • German: “Dschit”
  • Hebrew: “ג’ית”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jit i Qalqilya”
  • Persian: “جیت”

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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 “Jit”. Photo: Orrling, CC BY-SA 3.0.