Kissufim
Kissufim is a kibbutz in the northwestern Negev desert in Israel. Located adjacent to the Gaza Strip at an altitude of 92 m above sea level, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 343.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Coolkof, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 279 residents
- Description: kibbutz in Israel
- Also known as: “Kesseifim”, “Kissuffim”, and “Kisufim”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kissufim Crossing.
Kissufim Crossing
Border checkpoint
Kissufim is a kibbutz in the northwestern Negev desert in Israel. Located adjacent to the Gaza Strip at an altitude of 92 m above sea level, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 343. Kissufim Crossing is situated 2½ km west of Kissufim.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ein HaShlosha and Wadi as-Salqa.
Ein HaShlosha
Village
Ein HaShlosha is a kibbutz in the western Negev desert, and also in the Gaza envelope in Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. Ein HaShlosha is situated 2½ km south of Kissufim.
Wadi as-Salqa
Village
Wadi as-Salqa is a Palestinian agricultural town in the Deir al-Balah Governorate, located south of Deir al-Balah. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the municipality had a population of 6,715 in 2017. Wadi as-Salqa is situated 3½ km west of Kissufim.
Nirim
Village
Photo: Danny-w, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nirim is a kibbutz in the northwestern Negev in Israel. Located near the border with the Gaza Strip, about 7 kilometres east of Khan Yunis, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 482. Nirim is situated 4½ km south of Kissufim.
Kissufim
- Categories: kibbutz and locality
- Location: Southern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.37416° or 31° 22′ 27″ northLongitude
34.39945° or 34° 23′ 58″ eastPopulation
279Elevation
93 metres (305 feet)United Nations Location Code
IL KSFOpen location code
8G3P99FX+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 278474561OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kissufim” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كسوفيم”
- Arabic: “كيسوفيم”
- Bulgarian: “Кисуфим”
- Catalan: “Kissufim”
- Cebuano: “Kissufim”
- Chinese: “基蘇菲姆”
- Czech: “Kisufim”
- Dutch: “Kissufim”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيسوفيم”
- French: “Kissoufim”
- French: “Kissufim”
- German: “Kissufim”
- Hebrew: “כיסופים”
- Hebrew: “כסופים”
- Hungarian: “Kiszufim”
- Irish: “Kissufim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kissufim”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kissufim”
- Norwegian: “Kissufim”
- Persian: “کیسوفیم”
- Polish: “Kissufim”
- Romanian: “Kissufim”
- Russian: “Кисуфим”
- Spanish: “Kissufim”
- Swedish: “Kissufim”
- Turkish: “Kissufim”
- Ukrainian: “Кіссуфім”
- Ukrainian: “Кісуфім”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kisufim Camp and Kisufim Cemetery.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kissufim”. Photo: Coolkof, Public domain.