Beit Sahour
Beit Sahour or Beit Sahur is a Palestinian town east of Bethlehem, in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank in the State of Palestine. The city is under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority.
- Type: Town with 15,400 residents
- Description: Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank
- Also known as: “Beit Sahur”, “Beit Saḥūr”, “Bet Sahur”, “Bettsahour”, “Ḩaql ar Ru‘āh”, “Ḩaql ar Ru‘āt”, “Ḥaql er Ru‘āt”, “Herdarnas äng”, “Χωριό των Ποιμένων”, “בית סחור”, and “بيت ساحور، بيت لحم”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Church of the Nativity and Chapel of the Milk Grotto.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hindaza and Bethlehem.
Homat Shmuel
Suburb
Har Homa, officially Homat Shmuel, is an Israeli… Homat Shmuel is situated 2½ km north of Beit Sahour.
Beit Sahour
- Categories: city, city or town, and locality
- Location: Bethlehem Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.70209° or 31° 42′ 8″ north
Longitude
35.22974° or 35° 13′ 47″ east
Population
15,400
Elevation
609 metres (1,998 feet)
Open location code
8G3QP62H+RV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Beit Sahour” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيت ساحور”
- Arabic: “حقل الرعاة”
- Armenian: “Բեյթ Սահուր”
- Asturian: “Beit Sahour”
- Basque: “Beit Sahour”
- Belarusian: “Бейт-Сахур”
- Bengali: “বেইত সাহুর”
- Catalan: “Beit Sahour”
- Cebuano: “Bayt Sāḩūr”
- Central Kurdish: “بێت ساخوور”
- Chinese: “拜特萨侯尔”
- Croatian: “Bajt Sahur”
- Czech: “Bajt Sahur”
- Dutch: “Bayt Sahur”
- Dutch: “Beit Sahur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيت ساحور”
- Esperanto: “Beit Sahour”
- Finnish: “Beit Sahour”
- Finnish: “Beit Sahur”
- French: “Beit Sahour”
- French: “Beït Sahour”
- German: “Bait Sahur”
- Greek: “Χωρίον των Ποιμένων”
- Hebrew: “בית סאחור”
- Hindi: “बैत साहूर”
- Hungarian: “Beit Sahour”
- Indonesian: “Beit Sahour”
- Italian: “Beit Sahour”
- Javanese: “Beit Sahour”
- Lithuanian: “Beit Sahuras”
- Macedonian: “Бејт Сахур”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beit Sahour”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beit Sahour”
- Norwegian: “Beit Sahour”
- Persian: “بیت ساحور”
- Polish: “Bajt Sahur”
- Russian: “Бейт-Сахур”
- Scots: “Beit Sahour”
- Slovak: “Bajt Sahur”
- Spanish: “Beit Sahour”
- Swedish: “Beit Sahour”
- Ukrainian: “Бейт-Сахур”
- Urdu: “بیت ساحور”
- Western Panjabi: “بیت ساحور”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Fakht al Jul and Haret Al-Anatreh.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Yes For Children Society (Mr Ok Theater) and Yes For Children Society ( Mr Ok Theatre ).
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Worth a closer look: Bethlehem and Ramallah.
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