Birzeit
Birzeit, also Bir Zeit, is a Palestinian Christian town north of Ramallah, in the West Bank. Its population in the 2017 census was 5,878. Birzeit is home to Birzeit University and to the Birzeit Brewery.
- Type: Village with 4,530 residents
- Description: Palestinian town north of Ramallah
- Also known as: “Az Zayt”, “Bi’r az Zayt”, “Bi’r Zayt”, “Bir Zayt”, “Bir Zeit”, “Bīr Zeit”, “Bir Zeyt”, “Bir Ziet”, “Bir-Zeyt”, “Birzeyt”, and “ビール・ゼート”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Church of the Virgin Sultana Peace and The Palestinian Museum.
Beit Midrash
Synagogue
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jifna and Abu Qash.
Abu Shukheidim
Village
Birzeit
- Categories: town, college town, and locality
- Location: Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.9703° or 31° 58′ 13″ north
Longitude
35.19527° or 35° 11′ 43″ east
Population
4,530
Elevation
775 metres (2,543 feet)
Open location code
8G3QX5CW+44
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Birzeit” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بير زيت”
- Arabic: “بيرزيت”
- Arabic: “بيرزيت”
- Asturian: “Birzeit”
- Basque: “Bir Zeit”
- Catalan: “Bir Zeit”
- Cebuano: “Bīr Zayt”
- Chinese: “比尔宰特”
- Chinese: “比爾宰特”
- Dutch: “Bir Zeit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيرزيت”
- Esperanto: “Bir Zeit”
- Finnish: “Bir Zeit”
- French: “Bir Zeit”
- German: “Bir Zait”
- Hebrew: “ביר זית”
- Indonesian: “Birzeit”
- Italian: “Bir Zeit”
- Japanese: “ビルゼイト”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bir Zeit”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bir Zeit”
- Norwegian: “Bir Zeit”
- Polish: “Bir Zajt”
- Slovenian: “Bir Zeit”
- Spanish: “Birzeit”
- Turkish: “Birzeit”
- Urdu: “بیرزیت”
- Welsh: “Bir Zait”
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Highlights: المحكمة الشرعية and Edward Sae’d for music.
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