Yokneam Illit
Yokneam Illit, also Yoqne'am Illit, is a city in the Northern District of Israel. It is located in a hilly region of the Lower Galilee at the base of the Carmel Mountains, and overlooks the Jezreel Valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 22,700 residents
- Description: city in Israel
- Also known as: “Jokneam Illit”, “Yokneam”, “Yoqne’am ‘Illit”, “Yoqne’am Illit”, and “Yoqneam Illit”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tennis center Yokne’am and The Khan (han).
Tennis center Yokne’am
Pitch
Photo: המרכז לטניס בישראל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tennis center Yokne’am is a pitch.
Rakefet Cave
Cave
Raqefet Cave is a Late Natufian archaeological site located in Mount Carmel in the north of Israel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yokneam Moshava and Ein HaEmek.
Yokneam Moshava
Village
Photo: Rav, Public domain.
Yokneam is a moshava in the Northern District of Israel. Located on the outskirts of the city of Yokneam Illit on the border of the Jezreel Valley and the Menashe Heights, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Megiddo Regional Council and is administrated by a local committee which is elected every five years.
Ein HaEmek
Village
Photo: Zoltan Kluger, Public domain.
Ein HaEmek is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located near Yokneam, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 813.
HaZore’a
Village
Photo: Rav, Public domain.
HaZore'a is a kibbutz in northern Israel established in 1936 by German Jews. It is the only kibbutz that was established by members of the Werkleute movement. HaZore’a is situated 2½ km east of Yokneam Illit.
Yokneam Illit
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.64806° or 32° 38′ 53″ northLongitude
35.09436° or 35° 5′ 40″ eastPopulation
22,700Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)Inception
1950United Nations Location Code
IL YKNOpen location code
8G4QJ3XV+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 278477073OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
293153Wikidata ID
Q167582
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Yokneam Illit” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يوكنعام عيليت”
- Arabic: “يوكنعام”
- Armenian: “Յոկնեամ Իլիթ”
- Asturian: “Yokneam Illit”
- Belarusian: “Ёкнеам-Іліт”
- Catalan: “Yokneam Il·lit”
- Cebuano: “Yoqne‘am ‘Illit”
- Chinese: “上約克內阿姆”
- Chinese: “上约克内阿姆”
- Czech: “Jokne’am Ilit”
- Czech: “Jokne’am”
- Czech: “Jokneam”
- Czech: “Yokne’am”
- Czech: “Yokneam”
- Dutch: “Jokneam”
- Dutch: “Yokneam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يوكنعام”
- Esperanto: “Jokneam Ilit”
- Finnish: “Jokneam Illit”
- French: “Yokneam”
- French: “Yoqneam”
- Georgian: “იოკნეამი”
- German: “Jokne’am”
- German: “Jokneam”
- German: “Yoqne’am”
- Hebrew: “Yokne‘am ‘Illit”
- Hebrew: “יוקנעם עילית”
- Hebrew: “יקנעם עילית”
- Hebrew: “יָקְנְעָם עילית”
- Hebrew: “יקנעם עלית”
- Hindi: “योकनेम इलिट”
- Hungarian: “Yokneam”
- Indonesian: “Yokneam”
- Italian: “Yokneam Illit”
- Italian: “Yokneam”
- Italian: “Yoqne’am Illit”
- Japanese: “ヨクネアム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jokneam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yokneam lokalstyre”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yokneam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yoqne’am”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yoqneam”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yokneam”
- Norwegian: “Jokneam”
- Persian: “یقنعم”
- Polish: “Jokne’am”
- Polish: “Jokneam”
- Polish: “Yokneam”
- Portuguese: “Yokneam”
- Portuguese: “Yoqneam”
- Russian: “Йокнеам-Илит”
- Russian: “Йокнеам”
- Scots: “Yokneam”
- Scots: “יָקְנְעָם עילית”
- Serbian: “Јокнам Илит”
- Spanish: “Yokneam Illit”
- Spanish: “Yokneam”
- Swahili: “Yokneam Illit”
- Swedish: “Yoqne‘am ‘Illit”
- Tagalog: “Yokneam”
- Turkish: “Yokneam Illit”
- Turkish: “Yokneam İllit”
- Ukrainian: “Йокнеам-Іліт”
- Urdu: “یوکنعام”
- Urdu: “یوکنیم”
- Vietnamese: “Yokneam”
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