Bet Shean
The Beit She'an Valley is an area in the Jordan Valley of northern Israel. It consists of the town of Beit She'an, as well as a number of kibbutzim and other small agricultural communities.- Type: Town with 16,800 residents
- Description: ancient city and modern regional center in the Northern District of Israel
- Also known as: “Baysan”, “Beisan”, “Beisān”, “Beit Š’ean”, “Beit Sche’an”, “Beit Schean”, “Beit Sh’ean”, “Beit She’an”, “Beit Shean”, “Beit Shéan”, “Beit Szean”, “Beith Shean”, “Beith Sheān”, “Bejt Šean”, “Besan”, “Bet San”, “Bet Schean”, “Bet Še’an”, “Bet Šean”, “Bet Šeanas”, “Bet She’an”, “Bet Sjean”, “Bet Szean”, “Bet-Schean”, “Bet-Shean”, “Beth Schan”, “Beth Sean”, “Beth Shan”, “Beth Shean”, “Beth Shéan”, “Beth-shean”, “Bethsan”, “Beyt Shean”, “Citópolis”, “Escitopolis”, “Escitópolis”, “Parco nazionale di Beit She’an”, “Scitopoli”, “Scythopolis”, “Scytopolis”, “Skitopolis”, “Skythopolis”, “Skytopolis”, “Βαιθσαν”, “Бейсан”, “Бетсан”, “Вефсан”, “Национальный парк Бейт-Шеан”, “Скифополис”, “Скифополь”, “בֵּית שְׁאָן”, “בית שן”, “בית-שאן”, “סקיתופוליס”, “بيت شان”, “बीट शीआन”, “スキトポリス”, “ベート・シェアン”, and “ベイト・シェアン”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Roman theatre of Scythopolis and Beit She’an Station (Old).
Beit She’an central bus station
Retail building
Beit She’an central bus station is a retail building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mesilot and Reshafim.
Reshafim
Village
Reshafim is a kibbutz in northeastern Israel. Reshafim is situated 2½ km southwest of Bet Shean.
Ein HaNetziv
Village
Ein HaNetziv is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Ein HaNetziv is situated 3 km south of Bet Shean.
Bet Shean
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.49675° or 32° 29′ 48″ north
Longitude
35.4973° or 35° 29′ 50″ east
Population
16,800
Elevation
-121 metres (-397 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IL BET
Open location code
8G4QFFWW+PW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Yiddish—“Bet Shean” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σκυθόπολις”
- Arabic: “بيت شيئان”
- Arabic: “بيسان”
- Armenian: “Բեյթ Շեան”
- Armenian: “Բեյթ-Շեան”
- Asturian: “Beit She’an”
- Basque: “Beit Shean”
- Belarusian: “Бейт-Шэан”
- Bengali: “বেইত শেআন”
- Bulgarian: “Бейт Шеан”
- Bulgarian: “Бейт-Шеан”
- Catalan: “Beit She’an”
- Catalan: “Bet-Xean”
- Cebuano: “Bet She’an”
- Central Kurdish: “بەیت شێئان”
- Chinese: “貝特謝安”
- Chinese: “贝特谢安”
- Czech: “Bejt Še’an”
- Dutch: “Beet She’an”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيسان”
- Esperanto: “Bejt Ŝe’an”
- Finnish: “Beit She’an”
- French: “Beït Shéan”
- French: “Beït-Shéan”
- French: “Bet-She’an”
- Georgian: “ბეთ-შეანი”
- German: “Bet Sche’an”
- German: “Bet Scheʾan”
- Greek: “Μπέιτ Σεάν”
- Greek: “Σκυθόπολις”
- Hebrew: “בית שאן”
- Hindi: “बेथ शीआन”
- Hungarian: “Bét-Seán”
- Indonesian: “Beit She’an”
- Italian: “Beit She’an”
- Japanese: “ベト・シェアン”
- Kabyle: “Bisan”
- Korean: “베트셰안”
- Lithuanian: “Beit Šeanas”
- Macedonian: “Бет Шеан”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bet-Sjean”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beit She’an”
- Norwegian: “Bet-Sjean”
- Persian: “بیت شنان”
- Persian: “بیتشئان”
- Polish: “Bet Sze’an”
- Portuguese: “Beit She’an”
- Portuguese: “Bete-Seã”
- Romanian: “Beit Șe’an”
- Russian: “Бейт-Шеан”
- Scots: “Beit She’an”
- Serbian: “Бет Шеан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beit Še’an”
- Spanish: “Beit She’an”
- Swahili: “Beit She’an”
- Swedish: “Bet She’an”
- Swiss German: “Bet Sche’an”
- Tagalog: “Beit She’an”
- Thai: “เบตชิอัน”
- Turkish: “Bet Şean”
- Turkish: “Beyt Şe’an”
- Ukrainian: “Бейт-Шеан”
- Urdu: “بیت شان”
- Urdu: “بیت شیان”
- Vietnamese: “Beit She’an”
- Yiddish: “בית שאן”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: City center and Yefe Nof.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Matnas and Beit She’an Town Hall.
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Worth a closer look: Tel Aviv and Nazareth.
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