Juhor ad-Dik

Juhor ad-Dik is a Palestinian farming village in the Gaza Governorate, south of , in the central . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 4,586 inhabitants in 2017.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Locality with 2,880 residents
  • Description: municipality type D in Gaza, State of Palestine
  • Also known as: “Juhor ad Dik” and “Juhr ad Dik”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Netzarim and Gaza Power Station.

Ruins
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was an Israeli settlement in the about 5 kilometers southwest of . It was established in 1972. In August 2005, the inhabitants of were evicted by the Israel Defense Forces as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. is situated 3½ km northwest of Juhor ad-Dik.

Power station
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The Gaza Power Plant is a fossil fuel power station in , . is situated 3½ km west of Juhor ad-Dik.

Memorial
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The is a monument in Be'eri Forest, , , to the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand armies who were killed in Palestine during the First Battle of Gaza and Second Battle of Gaza of World War I. is situated 2½ km east of Juhor ad-Dik.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camp.

Suburb
Photo: שועל, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the central east of the Salah al-Din Road in the . The camp's total land area is 529 dunums and in 2017, it had a population of 28,024 with 28,770 registered refugees. is situated 3½ km southwest of Juhor ad-Dik.

Town
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Nuseirat Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the middle of the , five kilometers north-east of . The refugee camp is in the , Gaza Strip. is situated 4 km west of Juhor ad-Dik.

Suburb
Photo: ISM Palestine, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tel al-Hawa is a neighborhood in the southern part of the Palestinian city of . Incorporated by the Palestinian National Authority in the late 1990s, Tel al-Hawa is one of the more affluent areas of the city. is situated 5 km north of Juhor ad-Dik.

Juhor ad-Dik

Latitude
31.45571° or 31° 27′ 21″ north
Longitude
34.43719° or 34° 26′ 14″ east
Population
2,880
Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)
Open location code
8G3PFC4P+7V
Geo­Names ID
6967895
Wiki­data ID
Q6305155
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Juhor ad-Dik” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جحر الديك”
  • Arabic: “قرية جحر الديك”
  • Catalan: “Juhor ad-Dik”
  • Cebuano: “Juḩr ad Dīk”
  • Dutch: “Juhor ad-Dik”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جحر الديك”
  • French: “Juhor ad-Dik”
  • German: “Dschuhor ad-Dik”
  • Hebrew: “ג’וחור א-דיכ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Juhor ad-Dik”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Juhor ad-Dik”
  • Norwegian: “Juhor ad-Dik”
  • Persian: “جحر الدیک”
  • Spanish: “Juhor ad-Dik”
  • Urdu: “جحر الدیک”
  • Uzbek: “Juhor ad-Dik”

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