Bil’in
Bil'in is a Palestinian village located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, 12 kilometres west of the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Bil'in had a population of 2,137 in 2017.- Type: Village with 1,680 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Bil‘īn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Khirbet Badd Isa and Khirbet Abu ed-Dinein.
Khirbet Badd Isa
Ruins
Photo: אשר1234567890, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khirbet Bad 'Issa or Khirbet Bad-'Issa is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, within Modi'in Illit. Archaeological evidence suggests that the site was founded in the 3rd century BCE, during the Hellenistic period, as a seasonal agricultural settlement. Khirbet Badd Isa is situated 3 km west of Bil’in.
Khirbet Abu ed-Dinein
Ruins
Khirbet Abu ad-Danin, Horvat Abu a-Danin or Kh. Abu ed-Dinein is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, just south of Modi'in Illit. The site represents a rural Jewish village from the late Second Temple period, founded in the 2nd century BCE and reaching its peak during the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods. Khirbet Abu ed-Dinein is situated 3 km west of Bil’in.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kharbatha Bani Harith and Kafr Ni’ma.
Kharbatha Bani Harith
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kharbatha Bani Harith is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, located 15 kilometers west of Ramallah in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.
Kafr Ni’ma
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kafr Ni'ma is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 13 kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 4,659 inhabitants in 2017.
Saffa
Village
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saffa is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located west of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 4,374 inhabitants in 2017. Saffa is situated 2½ km southwest of Bil’in.
Bil’in
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.92856° or 31° 55′ 43″ northLongitude
35.07201° or 35° 4′ 19″ eastPopulation
1,680Elevation
337 metres (1,106 feet)Open location code
8G3QW3HC+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 332787949OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
284269Wikidata ID
Q860197
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Bil’in” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلعين”
- Arabic: “بلعين”
- Bengali: “বিল’ইন”
- Catalan: “Bil’in”
- Cebuano: “Bil‘īn”
- Chinese: “比林”
- Dutch: “Bil’in”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلعين”
- French: “Bil’in”
- German: “Bil’in”
- Hebrew: “בילעין”
- Hebrew: “בלעין”
- Indonesian: “Bil’in”
- Japanese: “ビリン”
- Japanese: “ビルリン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bil’in”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bil’in”
- Norwegian: “Bil’in”
- Polish: “Bilin”
- Spanish: “Bil‘īn”
- Spanish: “Bil’in”
- Urdu: “بلعین”
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Highlights include Women’s Agricultural Society Of Bil’in and Cemetery.
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