Kafr Qasim

Kafr Qasim, also spelled as Kafr Qassem, Kufur Kassem, Kfar Kassem and Kafar Kassem, is an Arab city in . It is located about 20 km east of , on the Israeli side of the Green Line separating Israel and the , in the southern portion of the "Little Triangle" of Arab-Israeli towns and villages.
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Wikipedia
Photo: Nizzan Cohen, CC BY 4.0.
  • Type: Village with 23,800 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Kafar Kasem”, “Kafar Kassem”, “Kafar Qasem”, “Kafar Qāsem”, “Kafer-Kassim”, “Kafr Kasim”, “Kafr Kásim”, “Kafr Qassem”, “Kasim”, “Kefar Qesem”, “Kfar Kassem”, “Kufr Qāsim”, “Kufur Kassem”, “Кфар-Касем”, and “כפר-קאסם”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Kesem cave.

Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qesem Cave is a Lower Paleolithic archaeological site near the city of Kafr Qasim in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kafr Bara and Oranit.

Village
Kafr Barra is an Arab locality in Israel in situated in its .

Village
is an Israeli settlement and local council…

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a kibbutz in central . is situated 2½ km north of Kafr Qasim.

Kafr Qasim

Latitude
32.11507° or 32° 6′ 54″ north
Longitude
34.97662° or 34° 58′ 36″ east
Population
23,800
Elevation
136 metres (446 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IL KAQ
Open location code
8G4P4X8G+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 69358409
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
294604
Wiki­data ID
Q152659
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Kafr Qasim” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كفر قاسم‎”
  • Arabic: “كفر قاسم”
  • Armenian: “Քաֆր Կասեմ”
  • Asturian: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kafr-Qasim”
  • Catalan: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Cebuano: “Kafr Qāsim”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەفر قاسم”
  • Chinese: “加西姆村”
  • Czech: “Kafr Kasim”
  • Dutch: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كفر قاسم”
  • Esperanto: “Kafr Kasim”
  • Finnish: “Kafr Qasim”
  • French: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Georgian: “კაფრ ქასიმი”
  • Georgian: “კაფრ-ქასიმი”
  • German: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Greek: “Καφρ Κασίμ”
  • Hebrew: “כפר קאסם”
  • Hebrew: “כַּפְר קָאסִם”
  • Hebrew: “כפר קסם”
  • Indonesian: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Italian: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Persian: “کفر قاسم”
  • Polish: “Kafr Kasim”
  • Portuguese: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Russian: “Кафр-Касем”
  • Scots: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Serbian: “Кафр Касим”
  • Spanish: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Swahili: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Swedish: “Kafr Qāsim”
  • Turkish: “Kafr Kasim”
  • Turkish: “Kafr Kasım”
  • Ukrainian: “Кафр-Касем”
  • Urdu: “کفر قاسم”
  • Vietnamese: “Kafr Qasim”
  • Yiddish: “כפר קאסם”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Kfar Kasim and Afeq industrial park.

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