Nablus Governorate
The Nablus Governorate is an administrative district of Palestine located in the Central Highlands of the West Bank, 53 km north of Jerusalem. It covers the area around the city of Nablus which serves as the muhfaza of the governorate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: governorate of the State of Palestine with 381,000 residents
- Description: governorate of the Palestinian National Authority
- Also known as: “Muḥāfaẓat Nāblus” and “Napat Šəḵem”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Ebal and Joseph’s Tomb.
Mount Ebal
Peak
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Ebal is one of the two mountains near the city of Nablus in the West Bank, and forms the northern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the southern side being formed by Mount Gerizim.
Joseph’s Tomb
Synagogue
Photo: David Roberts (painter), Public domain.
Joseph's Tomb is a funerary monument located in Balata village at the eastern entrance to the valley that separates Mounts Gerizim and Ebal, 300 m northwest of Jacob's Well, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus.
Mount Eival Alter
Archaeological site
The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal, also known as the Mount Ebal site, Mount Ebal's Altar, and Joshua's Altar, is an archeological site dated to the Iron Age I, located on Mount Ebal, West Bank.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nablus and Balata Camp.
Nablus
Photo: Uwe a, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Nablus is a large city within the Palestinian Territories, in the Central Highlands of the West Bank, some 63 km north of Jerusalem.
Balata Camp
Town
Photo: Hoshvilim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balata Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp established in the northern West Bank in 1950, adjacent to Balata village on the outskirts of the city of Nablus. Balata Camp had a population of 14,635 in 2017. Balata Camp is situated 4 km south of Nablus Governorate.
Asira ash-Shamaliya
Town
Asira ash-Shamaliya is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate, located 3.5 kilometers north of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of approximately 8,813 inhabitants in 2017.
Nablus Governorate
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Nablus Governorate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محافظة نابلس (فلسطين)”
- Arabic: “محافظة نابلس”
- Aragonese: “Gubernación de Nablus”
- Armenian: “Նաբլուս”
- Asturian: “Gobernación de Nablus”
- Basque: “Nablusko Gobernazioa”
- Belarusian: “Наблус”
- Bengali: “নাবলুস গভর্নরেট”
- Catalan: “Governació de Nablus”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای نابلوس”
- Chinese: “納布盧斯省”
- Chinese: “纳布卢斯省”
- Danish: “Nablus Governorate”
- Dutch: “Nablus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة نابلس”
- Finnish: “Nablusin kuvernoraatti”
- French: “gouvernorat de Naplouse”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Naplouse”
- German: “Gouvernement Nablus”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Ναμπλούς”
- Gujarati: “નાબલુસ ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hebrew: “שכם”
- Hindi: “नबलस गवर्नरेट”
- Hungarian: “Náblusz kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Nablus”
- Italian: “governatorato di Nablus”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Nablus”
- Japanese: “ナーブルス”
- Japanese: “ナーブルス県”
- Kannada: “ನಬ್ಲಸ್ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Korean: “나블루스주”
- Latvian: “Nablusas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Nabluso muchafaza”
- Malay: “Kawasan Pentadbiran Nablus”
- Marathi: “नाबलूस गव्हर्नोरेट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nablus Governorate”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nablus guvernement”
- Persian: “استان نابلس”
- Polish: “Nablus”
- Portuguese: “Nablus”
- Portuguese: “Província de Nablus”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Nablus”
- Russian: “Наблус”
- Scots: “Nablus Govrenorate”
- Sinhala: “නබ්ලස් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Guvernat Nablus”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Nablus”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Naplusa”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Naplusa”
- Swedish: “Nablus guvernment”
- Tamil: “நாபுளுசு ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “நாப்ளஸ் ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “நாப்ளஸ் கவர்னரேட்”
- Telugu: “నాబ్లస్ గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “เขตการปกครองแนบลูส”
- Turkish: “Nablus valiliği”
- Turkish: “Nablus Yönetimi”
- Ukrainian: “Муніципалітет Наблус”
- Urdu: “محافظہ نابلس”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Nablus”
- Welsh: “Llywodraethiaeth Nablus”
- Welsh: “Llywodraethiaeth Nablws”
- Welsh: “Rhanbarth Nablus”
- Welsh: “Sir Nablus”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع نابلس”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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