Sakhnin

Sakhnin is a city in 's . It is located in the , about 23 kilometres east of . Sakhnin was declared a city in 1995. In 2024 its population was 33,728; 95% of the population was Muslim and 5% was Christian.
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Wikipedia
Photo: אלמוג, Public domain.
  • Type: Town with 32 residents
  • Description: Arab city in northern Israel
  • Also known as: “Sachnin”, “Sahrin”, “Saknīn”, and “Sikhnin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Doha stadium and Teradyon industrial park.

Pitch
Photo: Little Savage, Public domain.
is the current home of Bnei Sakhnin.

Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 3 km west of Sakhnin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eshbal and Eshhar.

Village
Photo: אלמוג, Public domain.
is a kibbutz in northern Israel, located in the near . It falls under the jurisdiction of . In 2024 it had a population of 172.

Village
Photo: Almog, Public domain.
is a community settlement in northern . Located in the Galilee to the south of and north of Sakhnin, it falls under the jurisdiction of .

Village
Photo: Almog, Public domain.
Arab al-Na'im is a Bedouin village in northern . Located in the Galilee near , it falls under the jurisdiction of . In 2024 its population was 881. is situated 3 km northwest of Sakhnin.

Sakhnin

Latitude
32.86381° or 32° 51′ 50″ north
Longitude
35.30232° or 35° 18′ 8″ east
Population
32
Elevation
215 metres (705 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL SKH
Open location code
8G4QV872+GW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278475752
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
293655
Wiki­data ID
Q168330
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Sakhnin” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሳሕኒን”
  • Arabic: “سخنين”
  • Arabic: “سخنين‎”
  • Asturian: “Sakhnin”
  • Basque: “Sakhnin”
  • Belarusian: “Сахнін”
  • Catalan: “Sakhnin”
  • Cebuano: “Sakhnīn”
  • Central Kurdish: “سەخنین”
  • Chinese: “萨赫宁”
  • Chinese: “薩赫寧”
  • Czech: “Sachnin”
  • Czech: “Sachnín”
  • Czech: “Sakhnin”
  • Dutch: “Sachnin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سخنين”
  • Esperanto: “Saĥnin”
  • Finnish: “Sakhnin”
  • French: “Sakhnin”
  • Georgian: “სახნინი”
  • German: “Sachnin”
  • Hebrew: “סח’נין”
  • Hebrew: “סַחְ‘נִין”
  • Hebrew: “סחנין”
  • Hebrew: “סכנין”
  • Hebrew: “סִכְנִין”
  • Hindi: “सखनीन”
  • Indonesian: “Sakhnin”
  • Italian: “Sakhnin”
  • Japanese: “サフニン”
  • Korean: “사크닌”
  • Lithuanian: “Sachninas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sichninas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sakhnin”
  • Persian: “سخنین”
  • Polish: “Sachnin”
  • Polish: “Sakhnin”
  • Portuguese: “Sakhnin”
  • Romanian: “Sakhnin 48 sau samisa 48”
  • Romanian: “Sakhnin”
  • Russian: “Сахнин”
  • Scots: “Sakhnin”
  • Scots: “سخنين”
  • Serbian: “Сахнин”
  • Spanish: “Sajnin”
  • Spanish: “Sakhnin”
  • Swahili: “Sakhnin”
  • Swedish: “Sakhnin”
  • Swedish: “Sakhnīn”
  • Tagalog: “Sakhnin”
  • Turkish: “Sahnin”
  • Turkish: “Sakhnin”
  • Ukrainian: “Сахнін”
  • Urdu: “سخنین”
  • Vietnamese: “Sakhnin”

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