Ar-Rihiya
Ar-Rihiya is a Palestinian town located six kilometers southwest of Hebron. The town is in the Hebron Governorate southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 5,754 in 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 3,370 residents
- Description: village council in Hebron Governorate
- Also known as: “Ar Rihiya”, “Ar Rihiyah”, “ar-Rihiya”, “Barta’a”, “Er Rīhīya”, and “Rīhīya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Deir Razih.
Deir Razih
Residential area
Deir Razih is a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank located about 11 kilometers southwest of Hebron, in the Hebron Governorate. Administratively it is a Local Development Committee and relies mainly on nearby Dura for services. Deir Razih is situated 3½ km west of Ar-Rihiya.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al Fawwar Camp and Hadab al-Fawwar.
Al Fawwar Camp
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fawwar is a Palestinian refugee camp adjacent to the town of Hadab al-Fawwar in the Hebron Governorate, located six kilometers southwest of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
Hadab al-Fawwar
Village
Hadab al-Fawwar is a Palestinian village located seven kilometers southwest of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,354 in 2017.
Beit Hagai
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beit Hagai, also Hagai, is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement located in the southern Hebron Hills in the West Bank. The settlement population was 460 in 2004, according to a classified government document published by the Haaretz newspaper, and lies within the municipal jurisdiction of the Har Hevron Regional Council. Beit Hagai is situated 2½ km north of Ar-Rihiya.
Ar-Rihiya
- Category: locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.46951° or 31° 28′ 10″ northLongitude
35.07761° or 35° 4′ 39″ eastPopulation
3,370Elevation
779 metres (2,556 feet)Open location code
8G3QF39H+R2OpenStreetMap ID
node 5602521716OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
284881Wikidata ID
Q4783023
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Persian—“Ar-Rihiya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الريحية”
- Arabic: “الريحيه”
- Arabic: “ريحية”
- Catalan: “ar-Rihiya”
- Catalan: “Ar-Rihiya”
- Cebuano: “Ar Rīḩīyah”
- Dutch: “Ar-Rihiya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الريحيه”
- French: “Ar-Rihiya”
- Hebrew: “א-ריחייא”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ar-Rihiya”
- Persian: “ریحیا”
Localities in the Area
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