Juhor ad-Dik
Juhor ad-Dik is a Palestinian farming village in the Gaza Governorate, south of Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 4,586 inhabitants in 2017.Photo: Biegel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 2,880 residents
- Description: municipality type D in Gaza, State of Palestine
- Also known as: “Juhor a-Dik”, “Juhor ad Dik”, and “Juhr ad Dik”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Netzarim and Gaza Power Station.
Netzarim
Ruins
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Netzarim was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip about 5 kilometers southwest of Gaza City. It was established in 1972. In August 2005, the inhabitants of Netzarim were evicted by the Israel Defense Forces as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. Netzarim is situated 3½ km northwest of Juhor ad-Dik.
Gaza Power Station
Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Gaza Power Plant is a fossil fuel power station in Gaza Strip, Palestine. Gaza Power Station is situated 4 km west of Juhor ad-Dik.
ANZAC Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Avi1111, Public domain.
The Anzac Memorial is a monument in Be'eri Forest, Negev, Israel, 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Netzarim Junction and Al-Mughraqa.
Netzarim Junction
Neighborhood
The Netzarim Junction is a road intersection in the central part of the Gaza Strip. It is formed by the intersection of Route 749 within the Netzarim Corridor with Salah al-Din Road.
Al-Mughraqa
Town
Al-Mughraqa is a Palestinian town in the Gaza Governorate of the Gaza Strip, located six kilometers southwest of Gaza City. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Mughraqa had a population of 11,458 in 2017. Al-Mughraqa is situated 3½ km west of Juhor ad-Dik.
Bureij
Suburb
Photo: שועל, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bureij is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the central Gaza Strip east of the Salah al-Din Road in the Deir al-Balah Governorate. The camp's total land area is 529 dunums and in 2017, it had a population of 28,024 with 28,770 registered refugees. Bureij is situated 4½ km southwest of Juhor ad-Dik.
Juhor ad-Dik
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Gaza Governorate, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.45763° or 31° 27′ 28″ northLongitude
34.44226° or 34° 26′ 32″ eastPopulation
2,880Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)Open location code
8G3PFC5R+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 8236983637OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6967895Wikidata ID
Q6305155
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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: “Jahar a-Dik”
- French: “Juhor ad-Dik”
- German: “Dschuhor ad-Dik”
- Hebrew: “ג’וחור א-דיכ”
- Hebrew: “ג’וחור א-דיק”
- Korean: “주호르 앗 딕”
- 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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