Burqah

Burqah is a locality in , and has about 2,240 residents. Burqah is situated nearby to the hamlet , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Khirbet el-Maqatir and Yeshivat Hekhal Eliyahu.

Archaeological site
is an archaeological site located in the central , between and . Occupation began with a fortified settlement in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, followed by an Iron Age highland village.

College
Photo: יוסף לברן, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a college.

Archaeological site
Photo: דניאל צבי, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tell en-Nasbeh, possibly the biblical city of Mizpah, is a 3.2 hectare tell located on a low plateau 12 kilometers northwest of in the . is situated 4 km west of Burqah.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burqa and Giv’at Asaf.

Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in the , located east of in the northern , . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,047 inhabitants in the 2017 census.

Hamlet
Photo: Dvirraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Giv'at Asaf is an Israeli settlement in the . Located 3.5 kilometres from the settlement of , it falls under the jurisdiction of the .

Hamlet
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Migron is an Israeli outpost in the , located within 2 km of a former outpost by the same name, that was relocated to its present site on 2 September 2012.

Burqah

Latitude
31.89682° or 31° 53′ 49″ north
Longitude
35.2543° or 35° 15′ 16″ east
Population
2,240
Elevation
748 metres (2,454 feet)
Open location code
8G3QV7W3+PP
Geo­Names ID
284197
Wiki­data ID
Q34784706
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Hebrew—“Burqah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برقة”
  • Cebuano: “Burqah”
  • Dutch: “Burqah”
  • Hebrew: “בורקא”

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