Afula
Afula is a medium-sized town in the northern Israel. It is the largest city in the Jezreel Valley and the capital of that region.- Type: Town with 44,900 residents
- Description: city in Israel
- Also known as: “‘Afula”, “Affula”, “Afule”, “Afuli”, “al-ʿAfūla”, and “El ‘Affūle”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Afula and Ha’Amakim mall.
Afula
Railway station
The Afula railway station is a railway station on the Beit She'an – Atlit line, serving Afula, Israel, and the surrounding communities. It opened in 2016.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kibbuts Merhavya and Merhavia.
Kibbuts Merhavya
Village
Merhavia is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located to the east of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,312.
Merhavia
Village
Balfouria
Village
Balfouria is a moshav in northern Israel, south of Nazareth. Located near Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. As of 2024 it had a population of 643.
Afula
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Northern District, Jezreel Valley, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.6076° or 32° 36′ 27″ north
Longitude
35.2891° or 35° 17′ 21″ east
Population
44,900
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL AFU
Open location code
8G4QJ75Q+2J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Afula from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Afula” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “العفولة”
- Arabic: “العفوله”
- Arabic: “عفولة”
- Armenian: “Աֆուլա”
- Armenian: “Աֆուլահ”
- Asturian: “Afula”
- Asturian: “al-ʻAfūlaḧ”
- Asturian: “עֲפוּלָה”
- Asturian: “العفولة”
- Basque: “Afula”
- Belarusian: “Афула”
- Bengali: “আফোলা”
- Bulgarian: “Афула”
- Catalan: “Afula”
- Cebuano: “‘Afula”
- Central Kurdish: “عەفوولە”
- Chinese: “阿富拉”
- Czech: “Afula”
- Danish: “Afula”
- Dutch: “Afoela”
- Dutch: “Afula”
- Dutch: “Al-Affula”
- Dutch: “Al-Affulah”
- Dutch: “Al-Fula”
- Egyptian Arabic: “العفوله”
- Esperanto: “Afula”
- Finnish: “Afula”
- French: “Afoula”
- French: “Afula”
- French: “עפולה”
- French: “العفولة”
- Georgian: “აფულა”
- German: “Afula”
- German: “Afule”
- Greek: “Αφούλα”
- Gujarati: “આફુલા”
- Hebrew: “בירת העמק”
- Hebrew: “עפולה”
- Hindi: “आफ़ला”
- Hungarian: “Afula”
- Igbo: “Afula”
- Indonesian: “Afula”
- Italian: “Afula”
- Japanese: “アフラ”
- Kalaallisut: “Afula”
- Kannada: “ಅಫುರಾ”
- Korean: “아풀라”
- Latvian: “Afula”
- Lithuanian: “Afula”
- Malay: “Afula”
- Marathi: “आफुला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Afula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afula”
- Norwegian: “Afula”
- Persian: “عفوله”
- Polish: “Afula”
- Portuguese: “Afula”
- Romanian: “Afula”
- Russian: “Афула”
- Scots: “Afula”
- Scots: “עֲפוּלָה”
- Serbian: “Afula”
- Serbian: “Афула”
- Serbian: “עפולה”
- Sinhala: “අෆුලා”
- Slovenian: “Afula”
- Spanish: “Afula”
- Swahili: “Afula”
- Swedish: “‘Afula”
- Swedish: “Afula”
- Swedish: “al-ʿAfūla”
- Tagalog: “Afula”
- Tamil: “அபியூலா”
- Telugu: “అఫులా”
- Thai: “อฟูล่า”
- Turkish: “Afula”
- Ukrainian: “Афула”
- Urdu: “عفولہ”
- Vietnamese: “Afula”
- Waray (Philippines): “Afula”
- Yiddish: “עפולה”
- “Afula”
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