Judea and Samaria Area
The Judea and Samaria Area is an administrative division used by Israel to refer to the entire West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967, but excludes East Jerusalem.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 492,000 residents
- Description: Israeli administrative division in the occupied West Bank
- Also known as: “Judea and Samaria” and “Judea and Samaria District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tomb of Joshua Ben Nun and Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital.
Tomb of Joshua Ben Nun
Synagogue
The Tomb of Joshua, i.e. the burial site of the biblical figure Joshua, and that of his companion Caleb are, according to a Samaritan tradition noted in 1877, at Kifl Haris in the West Bank.
Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Sicherlich, CC BY 3.0.
Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital or Salfit Governmental Hospital is a government hospital in the Salfit city, West Bank, Palestine. Followed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital is situated 3½ km south of Judea and Samaria Area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ariel and Salfit.
Ariel
Photo: Sheepdog85, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ariel is an Israeli settlement in "Area C", within the north-central West Bank. It is approximately 40 km east of Tel-Aviv and 30 km east of Petah Tikva. It is beside the Palestinian town of Salfit.
Salfit
Town
Photo: Ameen Rammal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Salfit is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Salfit Governorate. It is located adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Ariel.
Kifl Haris
Village
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kifl Haris is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, located six kilometers west of Salfit and 18 kilometers south of Nablus, in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine; it is located northwest of the Israeli settlement of Ariel.
Judea and Samaria Area
- Category: districts of Israel
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Judea and Samaria Area” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Judea en Samaria gebied”
- Afrikaans: “Judea-en-Samaria-gebied”
- Arabic: “يهودا والسامرة”
- Aragonese: “Destrito de Chudea y Samaria”
- Aragonese: “Districto de Chudea y Samaria”
- Armenian: “Հուդեա և Սամարիա մարզ”
- Asturian: “área de Xudea y Samaria”
- Asturian: “Xudea y Samaria”
- Azerbaijani: “İudeya və Samariya dairəsi”
- Basque: “Judea eta Samaria Eremua”
- Bavarian: “Judäa und Samaria”
- Breton: “Distrig Judea ha Samaria”
- Breton: “Judea ha Samaria”
- Breton: “Takad Judea ha Samaria”
- Catalan: “Àrea de Judea i Samaria”
- Chinese: “Judea kap Samaria Khu-he̍k”
- Chinese: “犹地亚-撒马利亚区”
- Chinese: “猶太-撒馬利亞區”
- Czech: “Judea a Samaří”
- Danish: “Judea og Smaria distriktet”
- Dutch: “Judea en Samaria”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يهودا والسامره”
- Esperanto: “areo Judio kaj Samario”
- Finnish: “Juudean ja Samarian hallintoalue”
- French: “Cisjordanie”
- French: “District de Judée et Samarie”
- French: “Judée-Samarie”
- Galician: “Xudea e Samaria”
- German: “Judäa und Samaria”
- Greek: “διαμέρισμα Ιουδαίας και Σαμάρειας”
- Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Ιουδαίας και Σαμάρειας”
- Greek: “Ιουδαία και Σαμάρεια”
- Hebrew: “אגף יישובים ישראלים ביהודה ושומרון”
- Hebrew: “יהודה ושומרון”
- Hebrew: “מחוז יהודה ושומרון”
- Hebrew: “מחוז יו’ש”
- Hebrew: “מחוז יוש”
- Hungarian: “Júdea és Szamária”
- Icelandic: “Júdea og Samaría”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Yudea dan Samaria”
- Italian: “Area della Giudea e Samaria”
- Italian: “Giudea e Samaria”
- Japanese: “ユダヤ・サマリア地区”
- Kazakh: “Яһудия және Самария”
- Korean: “유대 사마리아 구”
- Korean: “유대 사마리아 지역”
- Korean: “유대사마리아구”
- Macedonian: “Јудеја и Самарија”
- Manx: “Ard Judaea as ny Samaar”
- Manx: “Ard Judaea as y Tamaar”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Judea kap Samaria Khu-he̍k”
- Mingrelian: “იუდეაშ დო სამარიაშ რაიონი”
- Northern Frisian: “Judäa an Samaria”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Judea- og Samaria-området”
- Persian: “منطقه یهودا و سامره”
- Persian: “یهودا و شومرون”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Judei i Samarii”
- Polish: “Judea i Samaria”
- Portuguese: “Judeia e Samaria”
- Pushto: “لوېديځ بانک”
- Pushto: “وېسټ بينک”
- Pushto: “يهودا او سامريه ولسوالۍ”
- Romanian: “Iudeea și Samaria”
- Russian: “Иудея и Самария”
- Russian: “Иудея”
- Russian: “Округ Иудея и Самария”
- Russian: “Самария”
- Serbian: “Јудеја и Самарија”
- Serbian: “Округ Јудеје и Самарије”
- Slovenian: “Judeja in Samarija”
- South Azerbaijani: “یهودا و سامره بؤلگهسی”
- Spanish: “Área de Judea y Samaria”
- Spanish: “Judea y Samaria”
- Tajik: “Яҳуда ва Самария”
- Turkish: “Yahudiye ve Samarya Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Yahudiye ve Samarya”
- Ukrainian: “Юдея і Самарія”
- Urdu: “یہودا و سامرہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Judea và Samaria”
- Yiddish: “יהודה מיט שומרון”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ari’el and Mardā.
Notable Places Nearby
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