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Central District

The Central District of is one of six administrative districts, including most of the region. It is further divided into four sub-districts: Petah Tikva, Ramla, Sharon, and Rehovot.
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  • Type: districts of Israel with 1,850,000 residents
  • Description: one of the six districts of Israel
  • Also known as: “Central Region”, “HaMerkaz”, and “Merkaz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Antipatroos fortress;Tel Afek and Petah Tikva Segula.

Ruins
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Antipatris was a city built during the first century BC by Herod the Great, who named it in honour of his father, Antipater. The site, now a national park in central , was inhabited from the Chalcolithic period to the Late Roman period.

Railway station
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The Petah Tikva–Segula railway station is a suburban passenger railway station in , operated by Israel Railways. It is located on the Yarkon Railway in northeast at the Yarkonim shopping district across the Segula industrial zone and is separated from the rest of the city.

Stadium
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The , also known as Petah Tikva Stadium, is a football in , completed in 2011. It is used mainly for football matches and is home to both Hapoel Petah Tikva and Maccabi Petah Tikva. is situated 5 km northwest of Central District.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Petah Tikva and Givat Shmuel.

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is an eastern suburb of , , population 248,000. For those into early Zionist history, a number of the old buildings have been preserved, though they can be hard to find, and the signs describing them are only in Hebrew.

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is a small city of nearly 30,000 in . It is in the Center District, which also includes , , and .

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, also spelled Bene Beraq, is an Israeli city. It lies in the Gush Dan district of which is the largest city, between and Petach Tikvah.

Central District

Latitude
32.0833° or 32° 5′ north
Longitude
34.9167° or 34° 55′ east
Population
1,850,000
Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)
Open location code
8G4P3WM8+8M
Geo­Names ID
294904
Wiki­data ID
Q188785
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Central District” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sentrale distrik, Israel”
  • Afrikaans: “Sentrale distrik”
  • Arabic: “المقاطعة الوسطى”
  • Arabic: “المنطقة الوسطى”
  • Aragonese: “Destrito Central”
  • Aragonese: “Districto Central”
  • Armenian: “Իսրայելի կենտրոնական մարզ”
  • Armenian: “Կենտրոնական մարզ”
  • Asturian: “Central”
  • Asturian: “distritu Central”
  • Azerbaijani: “İsrailin Mərkəzi dairəsi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mərkəz dairəsi”
  • Basque: “Erdialdeko barrutia”
  • Bavarian: “Zenträubeziak”
  • Belarusian: “Цэнтральная акруга”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট্রাল জেলা”
  • Breton: “Distrig Kreiz”
  • Bulgarian: “Централен окръг”
  • Catalan: “districte Central”
  • Catalan: “Districte Central”
  • Cebuano: “Central District”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ناوەندی”
  • Chinese: “Tiong-pō͘-koān”
  • Chinese: “中央区”
  • Chinese: “中央區”
  • Czech: “Centrální distrikt”
  • Czech: “ISO 3166-2:IL-M”
  • Danish: “Centraldistriktet”
  • Dutch: “Centraal district”
  • Dutch: “Centrum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المنطقه الوسطى (اسرائيل)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المنطقه الوسطى”
  • Esperanto: “Centra distrikto de Israelo”
  • Esperanto: “Centra distrikto”
  • Estonian: “Keskringkond”
  • Finnish: “Center District”
  • Finnish: “Keski-Israelin hallintoalue”
  • French: “district centre”
  • French: “District centre”
  • Galician: “Distrito Central”
  • Georgian: “ცენტრალური რაიონი”
  • German: “Zentralbezirk”
  • Greek: “Κεντρικό Διαμέρισμα, Ισραήλ”
  • Greek: “Κεντρικό Διαμέρισμα”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટ્રલ જિલ્લો”
  • Hebrew: “Meẖoz HaMerkaz”
  • Hebrew: “המרכז”
  • Hebrew: “יישובים במחוז המרכז”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז המרכז”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז מרכז”
  • Hebrew: “מרכז הארץ”
  • Hindi: “मध्य जिला (इज़राइल)”
  • Hindi: “मध्य जिला”
  • Hungarian: “Központi körzet”
  • Icelandic: “Miðumdæmi (Ísrael)”
  • Icelandic: “Miðumdæmi”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Tengah, Israel”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Tengah”
  • Italian: “distretto Centrale”
  • Italian: “Distretto Centrale”
  • Japanese: “セントラル地区”
  • Japanese: “中央地区”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Израильдің орталық округі”
  • Korean: “중부구”
  • Ladino: “Distrito Sentral”
  • Latvian: “Centra apgabals”
  • Lithuanian: “Centrinė apskritis”
  • Lithuanian: “Centrinė apygarda”
  • Macedonian: “Централен Округ”
  • Malay: “Daerah Tengah, Israel”
  • Malay: “Daerah Tengah”
  • Manx: “Slyst Veanagh, Israel”
  • Manx: “Slyst Veanagh”
  • Manx: “Yn Clyst Veanagh”
  • Marathi: “मध्यवर्ती जिल्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiong-pō͘-koān (Í-sek-lia̍t)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiong-pō͘-koān”
  • Mingrelian: “ისრაელიშ ცენტრალური რაიონი”
  • Mingrelian: “ცენტრალური რაიონი”
  • Mongolian: “Израилын төв дүүрэг”
  • Mongolian: “Төв тойрог”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maden (Distrikt uun Israel)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maden”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sentral-distriktet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sentral-Israel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sentraldistriktet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det sentrale distriktet i Israel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sentral-Israel”
  • Norwegian: “Sentral-Israel”
  • Norwegian: “Sentraldistriktet”
  • Persian: “استان مرکز”
  • Persian: “استان مرکزی اسرائیل”
  • Persian: “منطقه مرکزی”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Centralny”
  • Portuguese: “Distrito Central”
  • Pushto: “د اسراييلو مرکزي ولسوالۍ”
  • Quechua: “Chawpi distritu (Israyil)”
  • Quechua: “Chawpi distritu”
  • Romanian: “Districtul Central”
  • Russian: “Центральный округ Израиля”
  • Russian: “Центральный округ”
  • Russian: “Центральный район”
  • Scots: “Center Destrict”
  • Scots: “Central Destrict”
  • Serbian: “Centralni okrug”
  • Serbian: “Средишња регија”
  • Serbian: “Централни округ”
  • Sinhala: “මද්‍යම දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovenian: “Centralni distrikt”
  • Slovenian: “Centralno okrožje”
  • Spanish: “Central”
  • Spanish: “Distrito Central”
  • Swedish: “Centrala distriktet”
  • Tamil: “மத்திய மாவட்டம்”
  • Telugu: “సెంట్రల్ జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “เขตเซนทรัล”
  • Turkish: “Merkez Bölge”
  • Turkish: “Merkez Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Центральний округ”
  • Urdu: “ضلع وسطی”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Trung”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Butnga nga Distrito (Israel)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Butnga nga Distrito”
  • Welsh: “Ardal Canolog”
  • Western Panjabi: “وشکارلہ ضلع”
  • Wu Chinese: “中央区 (以色列)”
  • Wu Chinese: “中央区（以色列）”
  • Wu Chinese: “中央区”
  • Yiddish: “צענטער דיסטריקט פון ישראל”
  • Yiddish: “צענטער דיסטריקט”
  • Yiddish: “צענטראלע בעצירק”

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