Yarka
Yarka, officially Yirka, is a Druze village and local council in the Northern District of Israel. In 2019 it had a population of 17,171, 98.8% of them members of the Druze community, with small Muslim and Christian minorities.
- Type: Village with 17,200 residents
- Description: Druze-Arab village in Israel
- Also known as: “Arki”, “Yarkah”, and “ירקא”
Places of Interest
Highlights: HaYonim Cave and El Mona Garden.
HaYonim Cave
Cave
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Julis and Pelekh.
Abu Snan
Village
Abu Snan is an Arab village and locality in the Galilee, part of the Northern District of Israel. Abu Snan is situated 3½ km west of Yarka.
Yarka
- Category: locality
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.95489° or 32° 57′ 18″ north
Longitude
35.20879° or 35° 12′ 32″ east
Population
17,200
Elevation
339 metres (1,112 feet)
Open location code
8G4QX635+XG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Yarka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يركا”
- Arabic: “يركا”
- Czech: “Jirka”
- Dutch: “Yarka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يركا”
- French: “Yarka”
- Georgian: “იარქა”
- Hebrew: “Yirkā”
- Hebrew: “ירכא”
- Hebrew: “יִרְכָּא”
- Irish: “Yarka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yirka”
- Polish: “Jirka”
- Russian: “Ярка”
- Scots: “Yirka”
- Turkish: “Yarka”
- Urdu: “یارکہ”
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