Hebron
The Hebron Governorate is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank. The governorate's land area is 1,060 square kilometres and its population according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in mid-year 2019 was 1,004,510.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: governorate of the State of Palestine with 707,000 residents
- Description: governorate of the Palestinian National Authority
- Also known as: “Al Khalil”, “Hebron Governorate”, “Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḫalī”, “Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḫalīl”, and “Nafat Ḥevron”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cave of the Patriarchs and Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town.
Cave of the Patriarchs
Photo: Djampa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cave of the Patriarchs or Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Jews by its Biblical name Cave of Machpelah and to Muslims as the Ibrahami Mosque, or Sanctuary of Ibrahim, is a series of caves situated in the heart of the Old City of Hebron in the West Bank, 30 kilometres south of Jerusalem.
Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
Protected area
Photo: Eman, Public domain.
The Old City of Hebron is the historic city centre of Hebron. The Hebron of antiquity is thought by archaeologists to have originally started elsewhere, at Tel Rumeida, which is approximately 200 meters west of today's Old City, and thought to have originally been a Canaanite city.
Old Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: אורלילי, Public domain.
The old Jewish cemetery in Hebron is located on a hill to the west of the Tomb of Machpela. It has been used as a Jewish cemetery for hundreds of years.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hebron and Yatta.
Hebron
Hebron is an ancient city in the southern West Bank. It is the traditional burial place of the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their wives.
Yatta
Town
Photo: عيسى الدبابسة, CC BY 4.0.
Yatta, also known as Yattah or Yutta, is a Palestinian city located in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the West Bank, approximately 8 km south of the city of Hebron. Yatta is situated 6 km south of Hebron.
Kiryat Arba
Village
Kiryat Arba or Qiryat Arba is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron, in the southern Israeli-occupied West Bank. Founded in 1968, in 2023 it had a population of 7,572.
Hebron
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Hebron” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الخليل”
- Arabic: “محافظة الخليل”
- Aragonese: “Gubernación d’Ebrón”
- Aragonese: “Gubernación d’Hebrón”
- Asturian: “Gobernación d’Hebrón”
- Asturian: “Gobernación de Hebrón”
- Basque: “Hebrongo Gobernazioa”
- Belarusian: “Геброн”
- Bengali: “হেবরন গভর্নোরেট”
- Catalan: “Governació d’Hebron”
- Cebuano: “Al Khalil”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای خەلیل”
- Chinese: “希伯伦省”
- Chinese: “希布伦省”
- Czech: “Hebron”
- Danish: “Hebron Governorate”
- Dutch: “Hebron”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة الخليل”
- Finnish: “Hebronn kuvernoraatti”
- French: “gouvernorat de Hébron”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Hébron”
- Galician: “Gobernación de Hebrón”
- German: “Gouvernement Hebron”
- German: “Hebron Governorate”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Χεβρώνας”
- Gujarati: “હેબ્રોન ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hebrew: “חברון”
- Hindi: “हेब्रोन गवर्नरेट”
- Hungarian: “Hebron kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Al Khalil”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Hebron”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Hebron”
- Japanese: “ヘブロン”
- Japanese: “ヘブロン県”
- Kannada: “ಹೆಬ್ರೋನ್ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Korean: “헤브론주”
- Latvian: “Hebronas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Hebrono muchafaza”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Al-Khalil”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Hebron”
- Maltese: “Governorat ta‘ Hebron”
- Marathi: “हेब्रोन गव्हर्नोरेट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Herbron Governorate”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hebron guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Hebron guvernement”
- Persian: “استان الخلیل”
- Polish: “Hebron”
- Portuguese: “Governamento de Hebron”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Hebron”
- Russian: “Хеврон”
- Scots: “Hebron Govrenorate”
- Sinhala: “හෙබ්රොන් පළාත”
- Slovak: “Hebronský guvernorát”
- Slovenian: “Guvernat Hebron”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Hebron”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Hebrón”
- Swedish: “Herbron Governorate”
- Tamil: “எபிரோன் ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “ஹெப்ரோன் கோவெர்னோரே”
- Telugu: “హెబ్రన్ గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “ฮีบรอน”
- Turkish: “El Halil valiliği”
- Turkish: “Hebron Valiliği”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Хеврон”
- Ukrainian: “Хеврон (провінція)”
- Ukrainian: “Хеврон”
- Urdu: “محافظہ الخلیل”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Hebron”
- Welsh: “Llywodraethiaeth Hebron”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع الخلیل”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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