As-Sawiya
As-Sawiya is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 18 kilometers south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,761 inhabitants in 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 2,240 residents
- Description: village council in Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine
- Also known as: “As Sawiya”, “As Sawiyah”, “As Sāwiyah”, and “Es Sāwiya”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eli and Rehelim.
Eli
Village
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eli is a large Israeli settlement in the West Bank organized as a community settlement, located on Highway 60, north of Ramallah, between the Palestinian villages of As-Sawiya and Qaryut, part of whose lands were expropriated for the establishment of Eli.
Rehelim
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rehelim is an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank. Located on Route 60, between Kfar Tapuach and Eli, east of Ariel and adjacent to the Palestinian towns of Yatma and Qabalan, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council.
Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya
Village
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, 20 kilometers south of Nablus, in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine.
As-Sawiya
- Category: locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.08455° or 32° 5′ 4″ northLongitude
35.258° or 35° 15′ 29″ eastPopulation
2,240Elevation
643 metres (2,110 feet)Open location code
8G4Q37M5+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 334185835OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
284581Wikidata ID
Q4802836
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Persian—“As-Sawiya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الساوية”
- Arabic: “الساويه”
- Arabic: “الساويه”
- Arabic: “ساوية”
- Catalan: “As-Sawiya”
- Dutch: “As-Sawiya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الساويه”
- French: “As-Sawiya”
- Hebrew: “א-סאוויה”
- Persian: “الساویه”
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