Israel
Israeli Coastal Plain
Southern District

Ashkelon

Ashkelon or Ashqelon Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן Arabic عسقلان ˁAsqalān; is a city on the Mediterranean coast of , 50 km to the south of .
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  • Type: Town with 144,000 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Al Majdal”, “Ascalon”, “Ashqelon”, “Ashquelon”, “El Majdal”, “El Medjdel”, “Majdal”, “Majdal ‘Asqalān”, “Migdal Ascalon”, “Migdal Ashqelon”, and “Migdal Gad”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Barzilai Medical Center and Ashkelon Sports Arena.

Hospital
Photo: Eman, Public domain.
is a 600-bed district general hospital in Ashkelon, opened in 1961. The hospital serves a population of 500,000, including a large number of Ethiopian and Russian immigrants, and has more than 100,000 admissions annually.

Sports venue
A.S. Elitzur Ashkelon is a professional basketball team based in Ashkelon in south west . The club currently plays in Israeli National League. The team is named after the late Itamar Sharvit, who has been Elizur Ashkelon's maintenance manager for 18 years.

Ruins
Ni'ilya was a Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on November 4, 1948, under Operation Yo'av.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bat Hadar.

Village
Photo: Ditiha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a community settlement in southern . Located near Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 661. is situated 3½ km southeast of Ashkelon.

Ashkelon

Latitude
31.6653° or 31° 39′ 55″ north
Longitude
34.565° or 34° 33′ 54″ east
Population
144,000
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL AKL
Open location code
8G3PMH88+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278476881
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
295620
Wiki­data ID
Q60956
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ashkelon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ashkelon”
  • Arabic: “أشقلون”
  • Arabic: “أشكلون”
  • Arabic: “اشقلون”
  • Arabic: “اشكلون”
  • Arabic: “المجدل عسقلان”
  • Arabic: “المجدل”
  • Arabic: “عسقلان”
  • Armenian: “Աշկելոն”
  • Asturian: “Ashkelon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aşkelon”
  • Basque: “Ascalon”
  • Basque: “Askalon”
  • Basque: “Axkelon”
  • Belarusian: “Ашкелон”
  • Bengali: “আশকেলন”
  • Bengali: “আসকালান”
  • Betawi: “Askelan”
  • Bulgarian: “Ашкелон”
  • Catalan: “Al-Majdal”
  • Catalan: “Ascaló”
  • Catalan: “Ashkelon”
  • Catalan: “Ashqelon”
  • Catalan: “Migdal”
  • Cebuano: “Ashqelon”
  • Central Kurdish: “عەسقەلان”
  • Chinese: “亚实基伦”
  • Chinese: “亞實基倫”
  • Chinese: “阿什克隆”
  • Chinese: “阿什凯隆”
  • Chinese: “阿什凱隆”
  • Croatian: “Ashkelon”
  • Croatian: “Aškelon”
  • Czech: “Askalon”
  • Czech: “Aškalon”
  • Czech: “Aškelon”
  • Danish: “Ashkelon”
  • Danish: “Askhelon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Eşkelon”
  • Dutch: “Ascalon”
  • Dutch: “Ashkalon”
  • Dutch: “Ashqelon”
  • Dutch: “Asjkelon”
  • Dutch: “Askelon”
  • Dutch: “Asqelon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عسقلان”
  • Esperanto: “Aŝkelon”
  • Esperanto: “Aŝkelono”
  • Estonian: “Ashkelon”
  • Estonian: “Ashqelon”
  • Estonian: “Askelon”
  • Finnish: “Ashkelon”
  • Finnish: “Askalon”
  • Finnish: “Askelon”
  • Finnish: “Askhelon”
  • French: “Ascalon”
  • French: “Ashkalon”
  • French: “Ashkelon”
  • French: “Ashkélon”
  • French: “Ashqalon”
  • Galician: “Ascalón”
  • Georgian: “აშკელონი”
  • German: “Aschkalon”
  • German: “Aschkelon”
  • German: “Ashkelon”
  • German: “Ashqelon”
  • German: “Askalon”
  • German: “Askelon”
  • Greek: “Ασκαλών”
  • Greek: “Ασκάλων”
  • Greek: “Ασκελόν”
  • Gujarati: “એસ્કેલોન”
  • Hebrew: “אשקלון”
  • Hebrew: “אַשְׁקְלוֹן”
  • Hindi: “अश्कलोन”
  • Hungarian: “Askelón”
  • Indonesian: “Ashkelon”
  • Indonesian: “Ashqelon”
  • Indonesian: “Askelon”
  • Irish: “Ashkelon”
  • Italian: “Ascalon”
  • Italian: “Ascalona”
  • Italian: “Ashkelon”
  • Italian: “Ashqelon”
  • Italian: “ʿAsqalān”
  • Japanese: “アシュケロン”
  • Kannada: “ಅಶ್ಕೆಲಾನ್”
  • Korean: “아슈켈론”
  • Ladino: “Ashkelon”
  • Latvian: “Aškelona”
  • Latvian: “Ašketona”
  • Lithuanian: “Aškelonas”
  • Lombard: “Ascalon”
  • Lombard: “Ascalun”
  • Lombard: “Ashkelon”
  • Macedonian: “Ашкелон”
  • Malay: “Ashqelon”
  • Malay: “Asqalan”
  • Manx: “Ashkelon”
  • Marathi: “अशकलॉन”
  • Mingrelian: “აშკელონი”
  • Mingrelian: “აშქელონი, ასკალონი”
  • Moksha: “Ашкэлон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ascalon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashkelon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashqelon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ashkelon”
  • Norwegian: “Ashkelon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ashkelon”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܫܩܠܘܢ”
  • Ossetian: “Ашкелон”
  • Persian: “اشکلون”
  • Persian: “عسقلان”
  • Polish: “Askalon”
  • Polish: “Aszkalon”
  • Polish: “Aszkelon”
  • Portuguese: “Ahskelon”
  • Portuguese: “Ascalão”
  • Portuguese: “Ascalom”
  • Portuguese: “Ascalon”
  • Portuguese: “Ashkelon”
  • Portuguese: “Asquelom”
  • Romanian: “Aşkelon”
  • Romanian: “Așkelon”
  • Russian: “Аскалан”
  • Russian: “Аскалон”
  • Russian: “Ашкелон”
  • Russian: “Эль-Маджаль”
  • Scots: “Ashkelon”
  • Serbian: “Ашкелон”
  • Serbian: “אשקלון”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ashkelon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ashqelon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Askalon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Askelón”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aškelon”
  • Sinhala: “අශ්කෙලෝන්”
  • Slovak: “Askalon”
  • Slovenian: “Aškelon”
  • Somali: “Casqalaan”
  • Spanish: “Ascalon”
  • Spanish: “Ascalón”
  • Spanish: “Ashkalon”
  • Spanish: “Ashkalón”
  • Spanish: “Ashkelon”
  • Spanish: “Ashkelón”
  • Spanish: “Ashqelon”
  • Spanish: “Askalun”
  • Spanish: “Askalún”
  • Spanish: “Askelon”
  • Spanish: “Askelón”
  • Spanish: “Senorio de Ascalon”
  • Spanish: “Senorio de Ascalón”
  • Spanish: “Senorío de Ascalon”
  • Spanish: “Senorío de Ascalón”
  • Spanish: “Señorio de Ascalon”
  • Spanish: “Señorio de Ascalón”
  • Spanish: “Señorío de Ascalon”
  • Swahili: “Ashkelon”
  • Swedish: “Ashkelon”
  • Swedish: “Askalon”
  • Swedish: “Askelon”
  • Tagalog: “Ashkelon”
  • Tamil: “அஸ்கேலோன்”
  • Tamil: “ஆஷிகேலோன்”
  • Telugu: “అష్కేలోన్”
  • Thai: “อัชเกล็อน”
  • Thai: “อัชเคลอน”
  • Turkish: “Askalan”
  • Turkish: “Aşkelon”
  • Ukrainian: “Аскалон”
  • Ukrainian: “Ашкелон”
  • Urdu: “اشقلون”
  • Urdu: “عسقلان”
  • Venetian: “Ascalona”
  • Venetian: “Ashkelon”
  • Vietnamese: “Ashkelon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ashkelon”
  • Welsh: “Ashkelon”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚实基伦”
  • Yiddish: “אשקלון”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿什凱隆”
  • “Ashqelon”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Ashkelon”. Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 3.0.