Aqraba
Aqraba is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate, located eighteen kilometers southeast of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Aqraba had a population of 10,024 inhabitants in 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 10,000 residents
- Description: Town in Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine
- Also known as: “‘Aqraba”, “‘Aqrabe”, and “Aqraba, Nablus”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yanun and Osarin.
Yanun
Hamlet
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Yanun is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 12 kilometers southeast of Nablus, and 3 miles north of Aqraba.
Osarin
Village
Osarin is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 16 kilometers southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,053 inhabitants in 2017. Osarin is situated 3 km west of Aqraba.
Jurish
Village
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Jurish is a Palestinian town in Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 27 kilometers southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,541 inhabitants in 2017. Jurish is situated 3½ km southwest of Aqraba.
Aqraba
- Category: locality
- Location: Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.12699° or 32° 7′ 37″ northLongitude
35.34382° or 35° 20′ 38″ eastPopulation
10,000Elevation
622 metres (2,041 feet)Open location code
8G4Q48GV+QGOpenStreetMap ID
node 332778771OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
284922Wikidata ID
Q2918318
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Aqraba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Zarqa”
- Arabic: “عقربا”
- Asturian: “Aqraba”
- Catalan: “Aqraba”
- Cebuano: “‘Aqrabā”
- Dutch: “Aqraba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عقربا”
- Finnish: “Aqraba (Nablus)”
- Finnish: “Aqraba”
- French: “Aqraba”
- Hebrew: “עקרבה”
- Indonesian: “Aqraba, Nablus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aqraba”
- Polish: “Akraba”
- Russian: “Акраба”
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