Ras al-Far’a
Ras al-Far'a is a Palestinian town in the Tubas Governorate in the Northern area of the West Bank, located 5 kilometers South west of Tubas. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 701 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 1,250 by 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tirzah.
Tirzah
Ruins
Tirzah was an ancient town in the Samarian highlands northeast of Shechem; it is generally identified with the site of Tell el-Far'ah, northeast of modern city of Nablus, West Bank, in the immediate vicinity of the Palestinian village of Wadi al-Far'a.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Far’a Camp and Wadi al-Far’a.
Far’a Camp
Village
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Far'a, Faraa or al-Fari'ah is a Palestinian refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley in the northwestern West Bank. It is located 12 kilometers south of Jenin, 2 kilometers south of Tubas, 3 kilometers northwest of Tammun, and 17 kilometers northeast of Nablus.
Wadi al-Far’a
Village
Wadi al-Far'a is a Palestinian village in the Tubas Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northeastern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Tubas.
Tubas
Town
Photo: Producer, Public domain.
Tubas is a city in the northeast of the West Bank, Palestine, and capital of the Tubas Governorate. A city of over 30,000 inhabitants, it is situated northeast of Nablus, west of the Jordan Valley and is an economic center. Tubas is situated 3 km northeast of Ras al-Far’a.
Ras al-Far’a
- Type: Village with 1,250 residents
- Description: municipality type D in Tubas, State of Palestine
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tubas Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.3027° or 32° 18′ 10″ northLongitude
35.34244° or 35° 20′ 33″ eastPopulation
1,250Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)Open location code
8G4Q883R+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 8259280607OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7870666Wikidata ID
Q7294679
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Ras al-Far’a” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راس الفارعة”
- Arabic: “راس الفارعة”
- Catalan: “Ras al-Far’a”
- Cebuano: “Ras al-Far’a”
- Dutch: “Ras al-Far’a”
- Egyptian Arabic: “راس الفارعه”
- French: “Ras al-Far’a”
- Hebrew: “ראס אל פארעה”
- Hebrew: “ראס אל-פארעה”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ras al-Far’a”
- Uzbek: “Ras al-Faraʼa”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ras al-Far’a”. Photo: Sheepdog85, CC BY-SA 3.0.