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.Photo: ISM Palestine, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- 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.
Rafah
Ruins
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Rafah is a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It is the capital of Rafah center in North Sinai Governorate, and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canada Camp and Kerem Shalom.
Canada Camp
Locality
Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Sinai near Rafah, formed in 1972 and evacuated in 2000. The Camp was named after the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force, which formerly had a camp at the location.
Kerem Shalom
Village
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Kerem Shalom is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located on the triple Gaza Strip-Israel-Egypt border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 231. Kerem Shalom is situated 6 km southeast of Rafah Governorate.
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”
- Hindi: “रफ़ह प्रांत”
- 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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