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Bethlehem Governorate

Beit Sahour

Beit Sahour or Beit Sahur is a Palestinian town east of , in the of the in the State of Palestine. The city is under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority.
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  • Type: Town with 15,400 residents
  • Description: Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank
  • Also known as: “Beit Sahur”, “Beit Saḥūr”, “Bettsahour”, “Ḩaql ar Ru‘āh”, “Ḩaql ar Ru‘āt”, and “Ḥaql er Ru‘āt”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of the Nativity and Chapel of the Milk Grotto.

Church
Photo: Neil Ward, CC BY 2.0.
The , or Basilica of the Nativity, is a basilica located in , , . The grotto holds a prominent religious significance to Christians of various denominations as the birthplace of Jesus.

Church
Photo: Antoinetav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The of Our Lady, also called Grotto of Our Lady or Milk Grotto, is a Catholic chapel in , in the , erected in 1872.

Church
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The or Chapel of Saint Catherine is a Catholic religious building located adjacent to the northern part of the in in the , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hindaza and Bethlehem.

Village
is a Palestinian village located six kilometers south-east of . The village is in the Southern . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 7,517 in 2017.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a small city located some 10 km south of the Old City of within the , in an "Area A" zone administered by the Palestinian Authority.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
Har Homa, officially , is an Israeli settlement in southern , near the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour. The settlement is also referred to as "Jabal Abu Ghneim", which is the Arabic name of the hill. is situated 2½ km north of Beit Sahour.

Beit Sahour

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
node 332791003
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
284304
Wiki­data ID
Q803990
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Beit Sahour” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيت ساحور، بيت لحم”
  • Arabic: “بيت ساحور”
  • Arabic: “حقل الرعاة”
  • Armenian: “Բեյթ Սահուր”
  • Asturian: “Beit Sahour”
  • Basque: “Beit Sahour”
  • Belarusian: “Бейт-Сахур”
  • Catalan: “Beit Sahour”
  • Cebuano: “Bayt Sāḩūr”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێت ساخوور”
  • Chinese: “拜特萨侯尔”
  • Croatian: “Bajt Sahur”
  • Czech: “Bajt Sahur”
  • Czech: “Beit Sahur”
  • Dutch: “Bayt Sahur”
  • Dutch: “Beit Sahour”
  • 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”
  • German: “Beit Sahour”
  • German: “Beit Sahur”
  • German: “Bet Sahur”
  • Greek: “Χωριό των Ποιμένων”
  • Greek: “Χωρίον των Ποιμένων”
  • Hebrew: “בית סאחור”
  • Hebrew: “בית סחור”
  • 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”
  • Polish: “Beit Sahour”
  • Russian: “Бейт-Сахур”
  • Scots: “Beit Sahour”
  • Slovak: “Bajt Sahur”
  • Spanish: “Beit Sahour”
  • Swedish: “Beit Sahour”
  • Swedish: “Herdarnas äng”
  • Ukrainian: “Бейт-Сахур”
  • Urdu: “بیت ساحور”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیت ساحور”

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