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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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”, and “Bir Ziet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Virgin Sultana Peace and The Palestinian Museum.
The Palestinian Museum
Museum
Photo: Dan Palraz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Palestinian Museum is a museum in Birzeit, in the West Bank, Palestine, that was inaugurated on 18 May 2016. It is a flagship project of the Welfare Association, a non-profit organization for developing humanitarian projects in Palestine.
Beit Midrash
Synagogue
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Beit El Yeshiva is a Religious Zionist Yeshiva situated in the Israeli settlement of Beit El, a community in the Binyamin region near Ramallah in the Israeli-controlled Area C of the West Bank. Beit Midrash is situated 4 km southeast of Birzeit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jifna and Abu Qash.
Jifna
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jifna is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank of the State of Palestine, located 8 kilometers north of Ramallah and 23 kilometers north of Jerusalem.
Abu Qash
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Abu Qash is a Palestinian village located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, located north of Ramallah and south of the Birzeit University.
Abu Shukheidim
Village
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Abu Shukheidim was a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. In 2005 it merged with the village of Al-Mazra'a al-Qibliya to form the town of Al-Zaitounah.
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″ northLongitude
35.19527° or 35° 11′ 43″ eastPopulation
4,530Elevation
775 metres (2,543 feet)Open location code
8G3QX5CW+44OpenStreetMap ID
node 332972292OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
284237Wikidata ID
Q212381
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Basque: “Birzeit”
- Catalan: “Bir Zeit”
- Catalan: “Birzeit”
- 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: “ビール・ゼート”
- 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”
- Urdu: “بیرزیت”
- Welsh: “Bir Zait”
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