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Bethlehem Governorate

Husan

Husan is a Palestinian town located 9 km west of , in the . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Husan had a population of 7,048 in 2017.
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Photo: Gilabrand, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al-Khader Stadium and Beitar.

Stadium
Photo: TrickyH, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an international football stadium in al-Khader, . It was inaugurated on August 6, 2007 with a match between local team Shabab Al-Khadr, and Maccabi Ahi Nazareth, an Israeli Arab team from .

Ruins
Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 4.0.
Betar was an ancient Jewish town in the , continuously inhabited since the Iron Age and up until the 2nd century CE. It is most famously known as the final stronghold of the Bar Kokhba revolt.

Park
Photo: Magister, CC BY 2.5.
Solomon's Pools are three ancient reservoirs located in the south-central , immediately to the south of , about 3.5 kilometres southwest of , near the road to . is situated 4 km southeast of Husan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Battir and Sde Boaz.

Village
Photo: Ali.batha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Palestinian village in the of the State of Palestine, in the , 6.4 km west of , and southwest of .

Hamlet
Photo: Gilabrand, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an Israeli outpost in the , built in 2002 almost entirely on private Palestinian land. Located on a hill above , it falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council.

Town
Photo: Yoninah, CC BY 2.5.
is a Haredi Jewish-Israeli settlement organized as a city council in the settlement bloc, ten kilometres southwest of in the .

Husan

Latitude
31.70802° or 31° 42′ 29″ north
Longitude
35.13561° or 35° 8′ 8″ east
Population
5,540
Elevation
809 metres (2,654 feet)
Open location code
8G3QP45P+66
Open­Street­Map ID
node 332951981
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
283643
Wiki­data ID
Q5948939
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Husan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Ḩūsān”
  • Arabic: “حوسان، بيت لحم”
  • Arabic: “حوسان”
  • Arabic: “حوسان‎”
  • Asturian: “Husan”
  • Catalan: “Husan”
  • Cebuano: “Ḩūsān”
  • Czech: “Húsán”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حوسان”
  • French: “Houssane”
  • Hebrew: “חוסאן”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Husan”
  • Polish: “Husan”
  • Spanish: “Husan”

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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 “Husan”. Photo: Gilabrand, CC BY 3.0.