Kmehin
Kmehin is a secular moshav in the western Negev desert in Israel. Located near Nitzana, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 463.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Saharonim.
Saharonim
Prison
The Saharonim Prison was an Israeli detention facility for African asylum seekers located in the Negev desert. It is the largest of a planned four camps with its total capacity of 8,000 inmates. Saharonim is situated 3½ km southeast of Kmehin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nitsana and Nitzanei Sinai.
Nitsana
Village
Photo: Wilson44691, Public domain.
Nitzana is an educational youth village and institutional settlement in southern Israel. Located in the western Negev desert, adjacent to the Egyptian border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. Nitsana is situated 3 km south of Kmehin.
Nitzanei Sinai
Village
Photo: Shuki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nitzanei Sinai, also known as Kadesh Barnea, is a community settlement in the western Negev desert in Israel. Located near Nitzana, it falls under the juridisction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 744. Nitzanei Sinai is situated 3½ km west of Kmehin.
Be’er Milka
Village
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Be'er Milka is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the central Negev desert close to the Egyptian border, around three kilometres from Kmehin, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. Be’er Milka is situated 3½ km northwest of Kmehin.
Kmehin
- Type: Village with 188 residents
- Description: Moshav in Southern Israel
- Categories: human settlement, moshav, and locality
- Location: Southern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
30.91001° or 30° 54′ 36″ northLongitude
34.43103° or 34° 25′ 52″ eastPopulation
188Elevation
222 metres (728 feet)Open location code
8G2PWC6J+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 970299572OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8184854Wikidata ID
Q613379
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Turkish—“Kmehin” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Kmehin”
- Dutch: “Kmehin”
- French: “Kmehin”
- Hebrew: “כמהין”
- Irish: “Kmehin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kmehin”
- Polish: “Kemehin”
- Polish: “Kmehin”
- Turkish: “Kmehin”
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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 “Kmehin”. Photo: Eladvs, CC BY-SA 3.0.