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.
- Type: Town with 10,000 residents
- Description: Town in Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine
- Also known as: “‘Aqraba”, “‘Aqrabe”, “Akrabatta (name in antiquity)”, “Aqraba, Nablus”, “Zarqa”, and “عەقرەبا”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yanun and Osarin.
Osarin
Village
Osarin is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate… Osarin is situated 3 km west of Aqraba.
Jurish
Village
Aqraba
- Category: locality
- Location: Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.12699° or 32° 7′ 37″ north
Longitude
35.34382° or 35° 20′ 38″ east
Population
10,000
Elevation
622 metres (2,041 feet)
Open location code
8G4Q48GV+QG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Aqraba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عقربا”
- Asturian: “Aqraba”
- Catalan: “Aqraba”
- Cebuano: “‘Aqrabā”
- Central Kurdish: “عەقڕەبا، نابلوس”
- 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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