Salfit Governorate
Salfit Governorate is one of the 16 Governorates of the State of Palestine. It is located in the northwestern West Bank, held under Israeli occupation, bordered by the governorates of Ramallah and al-Bireh to the south, Nablus to the east and Qalqilya in the north as well as, Israel to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: governorate of the State of Palestine with 70,700 residents
- Description: governorate of the State of Palestine
- Also known as: “Muḥāfaẓat Salfīt”, “Nafat Salfīt”, and “Salfeet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Khirbet Kurkush and Elmatan.
Khirbet Kurkush
Archaeological site
Photo: Ameen Rammal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khirbet Kurkush is an archeological site in the West Bank. It lies between the Israeli settlements of Bruchin and Ariel and near the Palestinian town of Bruqin, in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine. Khirbet Kurkush is situated 4 km southeast of Salfit Governorate.
Elmatan
Residential area
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 4.0.
El Matan is an illegal Israeli outpost in the West Bank on the lands of the Palestinian village of Wad Qana, located around a kilometer south of Ma'ale Shomron, under the jurisdiction of the Shomron Regional Council. Elmatan is situated 4 km north of Salfit Governorate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Biddya and Sarta.
Biddya
Town
Photo: Yaqueen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Biddya is a Palestinian city in the Salfit Governorate, located 32 kilometers southwest of Nablus and half that distance from Salfit in the northern West Bank.
Sarta
Village
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Sarta is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 22 kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 3,382 in 2017.
Qarawat Bani Hassan
Village
Photo: Mahmood moutan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Qarawat Bani Hassan is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate of the state of Palestine, 30 kilometers southwest of Nablus and 8 kilometers northwest of Salfit in the northern West Bank.
Salfit Governorate
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Salfit Governorate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محافظة سلفيت”
- Aragonese: “Gubernación de Salfit”
- Asturian: “Gobernación de Salfit”
- Basque: “Salfitko Gobernazioa”
- Bengali: “সালফিত গভর্নোরেট”
- Catalan: “Governació de Salfit”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای سەلفیت”
- Chinese: “萨尔费特省”
- Danish: “Salfit Governorate”
- Dutch: “Salfit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة سلفيت”
- Finnish: “Salfitin kuvernoraatti”
- French: “gouvernorat de Salfit”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Salfit”
- German: “Gouvernement Salfit”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Σαλφίτ”
- Gujarati: “સેલ્ફિટ ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hebrew: “סלפית”
- Hindi: “साल्फीट गवर्नरेट”
- Hungarian: “Szalfít kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Salfit”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Salfit”
- Japanese: “サルフィート”
- Japanese: “サルフィート県”
- Kannada: “ಸಫೀಟ್ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Korean: “살피트주”
- Latvian: “Selfītas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Salfito muchafaza”
- Malay: “Kawasan Pentadbiran Salfit”
- Marathi: “सलटेट गव्हनर्टेट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salfit Governorate”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salfit guvernement”
- Persian: “استان سلفیت”
- Polish: “Gubernatorstwo Salfit”
- Polish: “Salfit”
- Portuguese: “Província de Salfit”
- Portuguese: “Salfit”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Salfit”
- Russian: “Сальфит”
- Scots: “Salfit Govrenorate”
- Sinhala: “සල්ෆිට් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Guvernat Salfit”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Salfit”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Salfit”
- Swedish: “Salfit Governorate”
- Tamil: “சாலபிட் கோவெர்னோரே”
- Telugu: “సాల్ఫిట్ గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “ฟรอเรียนา”
- Turkish: “Salfint Yönetimi”
- Turkish: “Salfit valiliği”
- Ukrainian: “Муніципалітет Салфіт”
- Urdu: “محافظہ سلفیت”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Salfit”
- Welsh: “llywodraethiaeth Salfit”
- Welsh: “Llywodraethiaeth Salfit”
- Welsh: “Rhanbarth Salfit”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع سلفیت”
- “Salfit Governorate”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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