Oranit
Oranit is an Israeli settlement and local council located in the Seam Zone of the West Bank, abutting and crossing the Green Line. It is surrounded by Horshim forest to the west, Rosh HaAyin and Kfar Qasim to the southwest, Sha'arei Tikva to the east, and Khirbet Abu Salman to the northeast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kesem cave.
Kesem cave
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qesem cave is a Lower Paleolithic archaeological site near the city of Kafr Qasim in Israel. Early humans were occupying the site by 400,000 until c. 200,000 years ago. Kesem cave is situated 3 km south of Oranit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nirit and Kafr Bara.
Nirit
Village
Photo: Aviad Bublil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nirit is a community settlement in central Israel. Located near Matan and the Horshim forest, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,041.
Kafr Bara
Village
Kafr Bara or Kfar Bara is an Arab locality in Israel in situated in its Central District. The small village, located near the Green Line, is often considered a part of the Arabs' Little Triangle along with the cities of Kafr Qasim and Jaljulia.
Horshim
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Horshim is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the south of the Sharon plain and covering 3,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council.
Oranit
- Type: Village with 6,000 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in the West Bank
- Categories: human settlement, Israeli settlement, and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.13092° or 32° 7′ 51″ northLongitude
34.99196° or 34° 59′ 31″ eastPopulation
6,000Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)Open location code
8G4P4XJR+9QOpenStreetMap ID
node 699996912OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8199420Wikidata ID
Q2028267
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Oranit” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أورانيت”
- Arabic: “أورنيت”
- Arabic: “أورنيت”
- Bulgarian: “Оранит”
- Catalan: “Oranit”
- Cebuano: “Oranit”
- Czech: “Oranit”
- Dutch: “Oranit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اورانيت”
- Finnish: “Oranit”
- French: “Oranit”
- German: “Oranit”
- Hebrew: “אורנית” (historical)
- Italian: “Oranit”
- Japanese: “オラニト”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oranit”
- Persian: “اورانیت، منطقه مسکونی”
- Persian: “اورانیت”
- Polish: “Oranit”
- Russian: “Оранит”
- Serbian: “Оранит”
- Spanish: “Oranit”
- Swedish: “Oranit”
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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 “Oranit”. Photo: Sheepdog85, CC BY-SA 3.0.