Southern District
The Southern District is one of Israel's six administrative districts, the largest in terms of land area but the most sparsely populated. It covers most of the Negev desert, as well as the Arava valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: districts of Israel with 1,150,000 residents
- Description: one of the six districts of Israel
- Also known as: “HaDarom”, “South District”, “Southern”, and “Southern Region”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mitzpe Ramon Airport and Camp Laskov.
Mitzpe Ramon Airport
Aerodrome
Mitzpe Ramon Airfield is an Israeli airfield 4 kilometres in the north of the town of Mitzpe Ramon.
Camp Laskov
Barracks
The IDF Officers' School, commonly known as Bahad 1, is a military academy for the training of officer cadets of the Israeli Ground Forces. It is located in Negev Desert, near the town of Mitzpe Ramon in Southern district, Israel.
Beresheet Hotel
Hotel building
Beresheet Hotel is a hotel building, which is situated 7 km south of Southern District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mitzpe Ramon.
Mitzpe Ramon
Mitzpe Ramon is a small town in the remote Negev of Israel. 190 km south to Tel Aviv, and to Jerusalem, 80 km south to Beer Sheva, and 150 km north to Eilat. Known for Ramon Crater, which is the world's largest erosion cirque.
Southern District
- Category: geographic location
- Location: Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Southern District” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Suidelike distrik, Israel”
- Afrikaans: “Suidelike distrik”
- Arabic: “اللواء الجنوبي”
- Arabic: “المنطقة الجنوبية”
- Arabic: “لواء الجنوب”
- Aragonese: “Destrito Meridional”
- Aragonese: “Destrito Sud”
- Aragonese: “Districto Sud”
- Armenian: “Իսրայելի հարավային մարզ”
- Armenian: “Իսրայելի Հարավային օկրուգ”
- Armenian: “Հարավային մարզ”
- Armenian: “Հարավային շրջան”
- Armenian: “Հարավային օկրուգ”
- Asturian: “distritu del Sur”
- Asturian: “distritu Meridional”
- Asturian: “distritu Sur”
- Asturian: “Meridional”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənub dairəsi”
- Basque: “Hegoaldeko barrutia”
- Bavarian: “Sidbeziak”
- Bavarian: “Siidbeziak”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвая акруга Ізраіля”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвая акруга”
- Breton: “Distrig ar Su”
- Bulgarian: “Южен окръг”
- Catalan: “districte del Sud”
- Catalan: “Districte del Sud”
- Catalan: “Districte Sud”
- Cebuano: “Southern District”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی باشووری”
- Chechen: “Къилба кӀошт”
- Chinese: “Lâm-pō͘-koān”
- Chinese: “南部区”
- Chinese: “南部區”
- Czech: “ISO 3166-2:IL-D”
- Czech: “Jižní distrikt”
- Danish: “Syddistriktet”
- Dutch: “Darom”
- Dutch: “Mekhoz haDarom”
- Dutch: “Zuid”
- Dutch: “Zuidelijk district”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المنطقه الجنوبيه (اسرائيل)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المنطقه الجنوبيه”
- Esperanto: “Suda distrikto de Israelo”
- Esperanto: “Suda distrikto”
- Estonian: “Lõunaringkond”
- Finnish: “Eteläinen hallintoalue”
- French: “district sud”
- French: “District sud”
- Galician: “Distrito Meridional”
- Georgian: “სამხრეთი რაიონი”
- German: “Südbezirk”
- Greek: “Νότιο Διαμέρισμα (Ισραήλ)”
- Greek: “Νότιο Διαμέρισμα”
- Hebrew: “Meẖoz HaDarom”
- Hebrew: “הדרום”
- Hebrew: “יישובים במחוז הדרום”
- Hebrew: “מחוז דרום”
- Hebrew: “מחוז הדרום”
- Hungarian: “Déli körzet”
- Icelandic: “Suðurumdæmi (Ísrael)”
- Icelandic: “Suðurumdæmi”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Selatan, Israel”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Selatan”
- Italian: “distretto Meridionale”
- Italian: “Distretto Meridionale”
- Italian: “distretto Sud”
- Japanese: “南部地区”
- Kazakh: “Израильдің оңтүстік округі”
- Korean: “남부구”
- Ladino: “Distrito del Sud”
- Latvian: “Dienvidu apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Pietų apskritis”
- Lithuanian: “Pietų apygarda”
- Macedonian: “Јужен округ”
- Malay: “Daerah Selatan, Israel”
- Malay: “Daerah Selatan”
- Manx: “Slyst Yiass, Israel”
- Manx: “Slyst Yiass”
- Manx: “Yn Clyst Yiass”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-pō͘-koān (Í-sek-lia̍t)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-pō͘-koān”
- Mingrelian: “ისრაელიშ ობჟათე რაიონი”
- Mingrelian: “ობჟათე რაიონი”
- Mongolian: “Израилын өмнөд дүүрэг”
- Mongolian: “Өмнөд тойрог”
- Northern Frisian: “Süüd (Distrikt uun Israel)”
- Northern Frisian: “Süüd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør-distriktet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sørdistriktet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det sørlege distriktet i Israel”
- Norwegian: “Sør-Israel”
- Norwegian: “Sørdistriktet”
- Ossetian: “Хуссар зылд”
- Persian: “استان جنوب”
- Persian: “استان جنوبی اسرائیل”
- Persian: “جنوب اسرائیل”
- Persian: “منطقه جنوبی”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Południowy”
- Portuguese: “Distrito Sul”
- Pushto: “د اسراييلو سوېلي ولسوالۍ”
- Quechua: “Urin distritu (Israyil)”
- Quechua: “Urin distritu”
- Romanian: “Districtul de Sud”
- Romanian: “Districtul Sud”
- Romanian: “Districtul Sudic”
- Russian: “Южный округ Израиля”
- Russian: “Южный округ”
- Russian: “Южный район”
- Scots: “Sooth Destrict”
- Scots: “Soothren Destrict”
- Serbian: “Južni okrug”
- Serbian: “Јужна регија”
- Serbian: “Јужни округ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Južni okrug”
- Slovenian: “Južni distrikt”
- Slovenian: “Južno okrožje”
- Spanish: “Distrito Meridional”
- Spanish: “Distrito Sur”
- Spanish: “Meridional”
- Spanish: “Sur”
- Swedish: “Södra distriktet”
- Tajik: “Ҳавзаи Ҷанубӣ (Исроил)”
- Tajik: “Ҳавзаи Ҷанубӣ”
- Tamil: “தெற்கு மாவட்டம்”
- Turkish: “Güney Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Güney”
- Ukrainian: “Південний округ”
- Urdu: “جنوبی ضلع (اسرائیل)”
- Urdu: “جنوبی ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Nam”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salatan nga Distrito (Israel)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salatan nga Distrito”
- Welsh: “y rhabarth deheuol”
- Western Panjabi: “تھلواں ضلع”
- Wu Chinese: “南部区 (以色列)”
- Wu Chinese: “南部区（以色列）”
- Wu Chinese: “南部区”
- Yiddish: “דרום דיסטריקט”
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