Ein Rafa
Ein Rafa is an Arab village ten kilometers west of Jerusalem in Israel. Located on the other side of Route 1 to Abu Ghosh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,407.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 1,250 residents
- Description: human settlement in Israel
- Also known as: “‘Ein Rafa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ein Hemed and Ein Limon.
Ein Hemed
Protected area
Ein Hemed is a national park and nature reserve in Israel, in the hills seven kilometres west of modern Jerusalem and some 12 kilometres west of the Old City.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jerusalem Hills and Ein Naqquba.
Jerusalem Hills
Photo: Zoharby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Jerusalem hills is a mountainous region in central Israel which includes the western part of Jerusalem.
Ein Naqquba
Village
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ein Naqquba is an Arab village in central Israel. Located west of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 3,696.
Tzova
Village
Photo: Stroomopwaarts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tzova also Palmach Tzova or Tzuba, is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Judean Hills, on the western outskirts of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 599.
Ein Rafa
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Jerusalem District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.79017° or 31° 47′ 25″ northLongitude
35.11627° or 35° 6′ 59″ eastPopulation
1,250Elevation
596 metres (1,955 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ4R8+3GOpenStreetMap ID
node 278474023OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
295284Wikidata ID
Q2920028
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Ein Rafa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عين رافا”
- Arabic: “عين رافة”
- Czech: “Ajn Rafa”
- Czech: “Ein Rafa”
- Czech: “Ejn Rafa”
- Dutch: “Ein Rafa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عين رافه”
- French: “Ein Rafa”
- Hebrew: “‘Ein Rāfa”
- Hebrew: “עין ראפה”
- Hebrew: “עין רפה”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ein Rafa”
- Persian: “عین رافا”
- Polish: “Ajn Rafa”
- Polish: “Ein Rafa”
- Turkish: “Ein Rafa”
- Urdu: “عین رافا”
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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 “Ein Rafa”. Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.