Ashkelon
Ashkelon or Ashqelon Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן Arabic عسقلان ˁAsqalān; is a city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, 50 km to the south of Tel Aviv.
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- Town with about 134,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
- Description: city in Israel
- Also known as“Al Majdal”“Ascalon”“Ashqelon”“Ashquelon”“El Majdal”“El Medjdel”“Majdal”“Majdal ‘Asqalān”“Migdal Ascalon”“Migdal Ashqelon”“Migdal Gad”“Mint of Ascalon”
Places of Interest
Discover Barzilai Medical Center and Arceological Garden.
Barzilai Medical Center
Barzilai Medical Center is a 600-bed district general hospital in Ashkelon, Israel opened in 1961.
Ashkelon Sports Arena
Sports venue
A.S. Ironi Ashkelon is a professional basketball team based in Ashkelon, south west Israel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bat Hadar.
Ashkelon
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Latitude
31.6653° or 31° 39′ 55″ north
Longitude
34.565° or 34° 33′ 54″ east
UN/LOCODE
IL AKL
Open location code
8G3PMH88+42
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ashkelon” goes by many names.
AshkelonAfrikaans
أشكلونArabic
اشقلونArabic
المجدلArabic
المجدل عسقلانArabic
عسقلانArabic
ԱշկելոնArmenian
AshkelonAsturian
AşkelonAzerbaijani
AscalonBasque
AskalonBasque
AxkelonBasque
АшкелонBelarusian
আশকেলনBengali
আসকালানBengali
AskelanBetawi
AchkelonBreton
АшкелонBulgarian
Al-MajdalCatalan
AscalóCatalan
AshkelonCatalan
AshqelonCatalan
MigdalCatalan
AshqelonCebuano
ئەشکەلۆنCentral Kurdish
亚实基伦Chinese
亞實基倫Chinese
阿什克隆Chinese
阿什凯隆Chinese
AshkelonCroatian
AškelonCroatian
AškalonCzech
AškelonCzech
AshkelonDanish
AskhelonDanish
EşkelonDimli (individual language)
AscalonDutch
AshkalonDutch
AshqelonDutch
AsjkelonDutch
AskelonDutch
AsqelonDutch
عسقلانEgyptian Arabic
AŝkelonEsperanto
AŝkelonoEsperanto
AshkelonEstonian
AshqelonEstonian
AskelonEstonian
AshkelonFinnish
AskalonFinnish
AskelonFinnish
AskhelonFinnish
AscalónGalician
აშკელონიGeorgian
ΑσκάλωνGreek
ΑσκελόνGreek
એસ્કેલોનGujarati
אַשְׁקְלוֹןHebrew
अश्कलोनHindi
AskelónHungarian
AshkelonIndonesian
AshqelonIndonesian
AskelonIndonesian
AshkelonIrish
AscalonItalian
AscalonaItalian
AshkelonItalian
AshqelonItalian
ʿAsqalānItalian
アシュケロンJapanese
ಅಶ್ಕೆಲಾನ್Kannada
아슈켈론Korean
AshkelonLadino
AscalonLatin
AškelonaLatvian
AšketonaLatvian
AškelonasLithuanian
AscalonLombard
AscalunLombard
AshkelonLombard
АшкелонMacedonian
AshqelonMalay
AsqalanMalay
AshkelonManx
अशकलॉनMarathi
აშკელონიMingrelian
აშქელონი, ასკალონიMingrelian
АшкэлонMoksha
أشكلونMoroccan Arabic
AshkelonNorwegian
AscalonNorwegian Bokmål
AshkelonNorwegian Bokmål
AshqelonNorwegian Bokmål
AshkelonNorwegian Nynorsk
AshkelonOccitan (post 1500)
ܐܫܩܠܘܢOfficial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
АшкелонOssetian
اشکلونPersian
عسقلانPersian
AskalonPolish
AszkalonPolish
AszkelonPolish
AşkelonRomanian
АскаланRussian
АскалонRussian
АшкелонRussian
Эль-МаджальRussian
AshkelonScots
АшкелонSerbian
אשקלוןSerbian
AshkelonSerbo-Croatian
AshqelonSerbo-Croatian
AskalonSerbo-Croatian
AškelonSerbo-Croatian
අශ්කෙලෝන්Sinhala
AskalonSlovak
AškelonSlovenian
CasqalaanSomali
AshkelonSwahili
AshkelonSwedish
AskalonSwedish
AskelonSwedish
AshkelonTagalog
அஸ்கேலோன்Tamil
ஆஷிகேலோன்Tamil
అష్కేలోన్Telugu
อัชเกล็อนThai
อัชเคลอนThai
AskalanTurkish
AşkelonTurkish
АскалонUkrainian
АшкелонUkrainian
اشقلونUrdu
عسقلانUrdu
AscalonaVenetian
AshkelonVenetian
AshkelonVietnamese
AshkelonWaray (Philippines)
AshkelonWelsh
亚实基伦Wu Chinese
אשקלוןYiddish
阿什凱隆Yue Chinese
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