Rafah Governorate
The Rafah Governorate is a Governorate of Palestine in the southernmost portion of the Gaza Strip. Its district capital or muhfaza is the city of Rafah located on the border with Egypt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: governorate of the State of Palestine with 173,000 residents
- Description: governorate of the Palestinian National Authority
- Also known as: “Muḥāfaẓat Rafaḥ”
- Neighbors: Egypt
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rafah Border Crossing and Rafah.
Rafah Border Crossing
Border checkpoint
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The Rafah Border Crossing or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Palestine's Gaza Strip and Gaza's sole border point with a country other than Israel.
Rafah
Ruins
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Rafah was a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It was the capital of Rafah center in North Sinai Governorate, and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
Yasser Arafat International Airport Ruins
Ruins
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Yasser Arafat International Airport was an airport in the Gaza Strip. It was located between Rafah and Dahaniya, close to the Egyptian border. The facility was built as a result of the Oslo Accords and opened on 24 November 1998 as Gaza International Airport. Yasser Arafat International Airport Ruins is situated 3½ km southeast of Rafah Governorate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rafah Refugee Camp and Rafah.
Rafah Refugee Camp
Suburb
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Rafah Camp is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the Rafah Governorate along the Gaza–Egypt border. It was established in 1949 and currently forms part of the city of Rafah.
Rafah
Town
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Rafah was a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, that served as the capital of the Rafah Governorate. It was located 30 kilometers south-west of Gaza City.
Shokat as-Sufi
Village
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Shokat as-Sufi is a Palestinian town under Israeli occupation in the southern Gaza Strip, south of Rafah and adjacent to the inoperable Yasser Arafat International Airport.
Rafah Governorate
- Location: Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rafah Governorate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محافظة رفح”
- Aragonese: “Gubernación de Rafah”
- Asturian: “Gobernación de Rafah”
- Basque: “Rafahko Gobernazioa”
- Belarusian: “Рафах”
- Catalan: “Governació de Rafah”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ڕەفەح”
- Chinese: “拉法省”
- Chinese: “拉法赫省”
- Dutch: “Rafah”
- Estonian: “Rafaḩi kubernerkond”
- French: “gouvernorat de Rafah”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Rafah”
- Galician: “Gobernación de Rafa”
- Galician: “Gobernación de Rafah”
- German: “Gouvernement Rafah”
- German: “Rafah Gouvernement”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Ράφα”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Ράφας”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Ράφαχ”
- Hebrew: “רפיח”
- Hungarian: “Rafah kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Rafah”
- Italian: “governatorato di Rafah”
- Japanese: “ラファハ”
- Japanese: “ラファフ県”
- Korean: “라파주”
- Malay: “Kawasan Pentadbiran Rafah”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Rafah”
- Maltese: “Governorat ta‘ Rafah”
- Mingrelian: “რაფაჰიშ მუჰაფაზა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Guvernementet Rafah”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rafah guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Rafah guvernement”
- Ossetian: “Рафах”
- Persian: “استان رفح”
- Polish: “Rafah”
- Pushto: “رفح ولايت”
- Pushto: “رفح ولایت”
- Pushto: “محافظه رفح”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Rafah”
- Russian: “Рафах”
- Scots: “Rafah Govrenorate”
- Serbian: “Гувернорат Рафа”
- Slovenian: “Guvernat Rafa”
- Slovenian: “Guvernatura Rafa”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Rafah”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Rafah”
- Tamil: “இரபகு ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “ரஃபா ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “ரஃபா கவர்னரேட்”
- Tosk Albanian: “Gouvernement Rafah”
- Turkish: “Refah valiliği”
- Ukrainian: “Рафах”
- Urdu: “محافظہ رفح”
- Uzbek: “Rafah gubernatorligi”
- Welsh: “llywodraethiaeth Rafah”
- Welsh: “Llywodraethiaeth Rafah”
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