Northern District
The Northern District is one of Israel's six administrative districts. The Northern District has a land area of 4,473 km and the remainder of the Northern District covers 3,324 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: districts of Israel with 1,200,000 residents
- Description: one of the six districts of Israel
- Also known as: “HaTsafon”, “HaẔafon”, “North District”, “Northern”, “Northern Region”, and “Tsafon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amud Cave and Cave of the Robbers.
Amud Cave
Cave
Amud Cave is located in the Upper Galilee, in the Nahal Amud gorge. It is situated about 30 m above Nahal Amud, right next to and above the famous pillar for which Nahal Amud is named.
Cave of the Robbers
Cave
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Mugharet el-Zuttiyeh, also called as the "Skull Cave", is a prehistoric archaeological site in Upper Galilee, Israel. It is situated 2,900 m from the Nahal Amud outlet, approximately 30 m above the wadi bed.
Mount Arbel
Peak
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Mount Arbel is a mountain in the Lower Galilee near Tiberias in Israel, with high cliffs, views of Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights, a cave-fortress, and ruins of an ancient synagogue. Mount Arbel is situated 6 km southeast of Northern District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiberias and Maghar.
Tiberias
Photo: Юкатан, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tiberias is a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 16th century one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Hebron, and Safed.
Maghar
Village
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Maghar also al-Maghar or Mghar, is a city of mixed population of Muslims, Christians, and Druze in the Northern District of Israel, with an area of 19,810 dunams. Maghar is situated 6 km west of Northern District.
Eilabun
Village
Photo: אלמוג, Public domain.
Eilabun is an Arab Christian village located in the Beit Netofa Valley around 15 kilometres south-west of Safed in northern Galilee between Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee. Eilabun is situated 7 km southwest of Northern District.
Northern District
- Location: Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Northern District” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Noordelike distrik, Israel”
- Afrikaans: “Noordelike distrik”
- Arabic: “المقاطعة الشمالية”
- Arabic: “المنطقة الشمالية”
- Arabic: “شمال إسرائيل”
- Aragonese: “Destrito Norte”
- Aragonese: “Districto Norte”
- Armenian: “Իսրայելի Հյուսիսային մարզ”
- Armenian: “Հյուսիսային մարզ”
- Asturian: “distritu del Norte”
- Asturian: “distritu Norte”
- Azerbaijani: “İsrail şimal dairəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimal dairəsi”
- Basque: “Iparraldeko barrutia”
- Bavarian: “Noadbeziak”
- Belarusian: “Паўночная акруга Ізраіля”
- Belarusian: “Паўночная акруга”
- Bengali: “নর্দান জেলা”
- Breton: “Distrig an Norzh”
- Bulgarian: “Северен окръг”
- Catalan: “Districte del Nord”
- Cebuano: “Northern District”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی باکووری”
- Chinese: “Pak-pō͘-koān”
- Chinese: “北部区”
- Chinese: “北部區”
- Czech: “ISO 3166-2:IL-Z”
- Czech: “Severní distrikt”
- Danish: “Norddistriktet”
- Dutch: “Mechoz haTzafon”
- Dutch: “Noord”
- Dutch: “Tzafon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المنطقه الشماليه (اسرائيل)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المنطقه الشماليه”
- Esperanto: “Norda distrikto de Israelo”
- Esperanto: “Norda distrikto”
- Estonian: “Põhjaringkond”
- Finnish: “Pohjoinen hallintoalue”
- French: “District nord”
- Galician: “Distrito Norte”
- Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი რაიონი”
- German: “Nordbezirk”
- Greek: “Βόρεια Περιοχή, Ισραήλ”
- Greek: “Βόρεια Περιοχή”
- Greek: “Βόρειο Διαμέρισμα”
- Gujarati: “ઉત્તરીય જિલ્લો”
- Hebrew: “Meẖoz HaTsafon”
- Hebrew: “Meẖoz HaẔafon”
- Hebrew: “הצפון”
- Hebrew: “יישובים במחוז הצפון”
- Hebrew: “מחוז הצפון”
- Hebrew: “מחוז צפון”
- Hindi: “उत्तरी जिला”
- Hungarian: “Északi körzet”
- Icelandic: “Norðurumdæmi (Ísrael)”
- Icelandic: “Norðurumdæmi”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Utara, Israel”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Utara”
- Italian: “distretto Nord”
- Italian: “Distretto Settentrionale”
- Japanese: “北部地区”
- Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Kazakh: “Израильдің солтүстік округі”
- Korean: “북부구”
- Ladino: “Distrito del Norte”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļu apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės apskritis”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės apygarda”
- Macedonian: “Северен округ”
- Macedonian: “Северен Округ”
- Malay: “Daerah Utara, Israel”
- Malay: “Daerah Utara”
- Manx: “Slyst Hwoaie, Israel”
- Manx: “Slyst Hwoaie”
- Manx: “Yn Clyst Hwoaie”
- Marathi: “उत्तर जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-pō͘-koān (Í-sek-lia̍t)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-pō͘-koān”
- Mingrelian: “ოორუე რაიონი”
- Mongolian: “Израилын умард дүүрэг”
- Mongolian: “Умард тойрог”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuurd (Distrikt uun Israel)”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuurd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord-distriktet i Israel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord-distriktet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Norddistriktet i Israel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Norddistriktet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det nordlege distriktet i Israel”
- Norwegian: “Nord-Israel”
- Norwegian: “Norddistriktet”
- Persian: “استان شمال”
- Persian: “استان شمالی اسرائیل”
- Persian: “منطقه شمالی”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Północny”
- Polish: “Prowincja Północna”
- Portuguese: “Distrito Norte”
- Pushto: “د اسراييلو شمالي ولسوالۍ”
- Quechua: “Chinchay distritu (Israyil)”
- Quechua: “Chinchay distritu”
- Romanian: “Districtul de Nord”
- Russian: “Северный округ (Израиль)”
- Russian: “Северный округ Израиля”
- Russian: “Северный округ”
- Scots: “North Destrict”
- Scots: “Northren Destrict”
- Serbian: “Severni okrug”
- Serbian: “Северни округ”
- Sinhala: “උතුරු දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovenian: “Severno okrožje”
- Spanish: “Distrito Norte”
- Swedish: “Israels norra distrikt”
- Swedish: “Norra distriktet”
- Tagalog: “Hilagang Distrito”
- Tamil: “வட மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “வடக்கு மாவட்டம்”
- Tatar: “Исраилнең төньяк бүлгесе”
- Telugu: “ఉత్తర జిల్లా”
- Turkish: “Kuzey Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Kuzey”
- Ukrainian: “Північний округ”
- Urdu: “شمالی ضلع (اسرائیل)”
- Urdu: “شمالی ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Bắc”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Phía Bắc”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amihanan nga Distrito (Israel)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amihanan nga Distrito”
- Western Frisian: “Noard (Israel)”
- Western Frisian: “Noard”
- Western Panjabi: “اتلا ضلع”
- Western Panjabi: “شمالی ضلع”
- Wu Chinese: “北部区 (以色列)”
- Wu Chinese: “北部区（以色列）”
- Wu Chinese: “北部区”
- Yiddish: “צפון ארץ ישראל”
- Yiddish: “צפון דיסטריקט”
- Yiddish: “צפון ישראל”
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