Beer Sheva

Be'er Sheva is a desert city of approximately 200,000 inhabitants in southern . It is the eighth-most populous and second largest city in the country and the gateway to the region of Israel.
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  • Type: City with 211,000 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “B’er Sheba‘”, “B’er Sheva”, “B’eyr-Sheva‘”, “Baysan”, “Be’er Schewa”, “Be’er Ŝeva”, “Be’er Ševa”, “Be’er Sheba”, “Be’er Sheva”, “Be’er Sheva`”, “Be’er Szewa”, “Be’er-Ŝeva”, “Be’ér-Sheva‘”, “Be’ersheva”, “Beer Scheba”, “Beer Schewa”, “Beer Šeba”, “Beer Şeva”, “Beer Sheeva”, “Beer sheva”, “Beër Sheva”, “Beer Szeba”, “Beer-seba”, “Beer-Ŝeba”, “Beer-șeba”, “Beer-Sheba”, “Beer-sheva”, “Beër-Sheva”, “Beer-Szeba”, “Beerscheba”, “Beerschewa”, “Beerşeva”, “Beerșeva”, “Beersheba”, “Beersheeva”, “Beersheva”, “BeerSheva”, “Beersjeba”, “Beersjeva”, “Beerxeva”, “Ber Šeba”, “Ber Ševa”, “Ber Sheba”, “Ber Sheeba”, “Ber Sheva”, “Ber Szewa”, “Ber-seba”, “Bersabée”, “Berséba”, “Berŝeba”, “Berŝeva”, “Berševa”, “Bersheba”, “Bersheva”, “Bersiba”, “Beʾer-shebaʿ”, “Bi’r as-Sab‘”, “Bi’r as-Sabi‘”, “Bir al-Sab”, “Bir al-Sabi”, “Bir as-Sab”, “Bir as-Sabi”, “Bir el Saba”, “Bir es Sab`”, “Bir es Sabe”, “Biras-Sabi”, “Birseba”, “Birŝeba”, “Birsheba”, “Birsiba”, “Birüssebi”, “Biʼr as-Sabʻ”, “Biʾr as-Sabʿ”, “Lungsod Berseba”, “Lungsod ng B’er Sheva‘”, “Lungsod ng Berseba”, “Lunsod Berseba”, “Lunsod ng Berseba”, “Siyudad Berseba”, “Siyudad ng Berseba”, “Tel Be’er Sheva”, “Беер Шеба”, “Беершеба”, “Беершева”, “Бер Шева”, “Бер-Шева”, “Беэр Шева”, “Беэршева”, “Бир-эс-Саба”, “Бэрсавія”, “Бээр Шева”, “Бээр Шэва”, “Вирсавия”, “Вірсавія”, “ბეერ შევა”, “ბეერშევა”, “ვირსავია”, “ב’ש”, “בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע”, “بعرشوع”, “بیر سەبع”, “بیرشبا”, “بیرشباع”, “بێرشیبا”, “شهر بئرشبع”, “محافظة بئر السبع”, “베에르셰바”, “ベールシェバ”, “ベエル・シェバ”, “别是巴”, and “比尔谢巴”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Soroka hospital and Be’er Sheva Merkaz.

Hospital
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Soroka University Medical Center, a part of the Clalit…

Railway station
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Be'er Sheva–Center railway station is an Israel Railways terminal in Beersheba.

Museum
Abraham's Well is a historical water well…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Neve Noy and Kfar Refael.

Suburb
Photo: Danny-w, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Hamlet
Photo: כפר רפאל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet.

Beer Sheva

Latitude
31.2505° or 31° 15′ 2″ north
Longitude
34.7889° or 34° 47′ 20″ east
Population
211,000
Elevation
285 metres (935 feet)
IATA airport code
BEV
UN/LOCODE
IL BEV
Open location code
8G3P7Q2Q+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 675627797
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
295530
Wiki­data ID
Q41843
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Beer Sheva” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Amharic: “ቤርሳቤ”
  • Arabic: “بئر السبع”
  • Arabic: “بِئِير شِڤَع”
  • Arabic: “بئير شيبع”
  • Arabic: “بئير شيفع”
  • Arabic: “بئير شيڤع”
  • Arabic: “بيئر شيبع”
  • Arabic: “بير السبع”
  • Arabic: “بير سبع”
  • Armenian: “Բեեր Շևա”
  • Asturian: “Berxeva”
  • Azerbaijani: “Beer-Şeva”
  • Basque: “Beer-Xeva”
  • Bavarian: “Be’er Scheva”
  • Bavarian: “Beer Scheva”
  • Belarusian: “Беэр-Шэва”
  • Belarusian: “Бэр-Шэва”
  • Bengali: “বে-এরশেভা”
  • Betawi: “Biir Saba‘”
  • Betawi: “Biir Saba’”
  • Bulgarian: “Беер Шева”
  • Catalan: “Beerxeba”
  • Cebuano: “Beersheba”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێئرشێبا”
  • Chinese: “貝爾謝巴”
  • Chinese: “贝尔谢巴”
  • Croatian: “Beer Ševa”
  • Croatian: “Beršeba”
  • Czech: “Beer Ševa”
  • Czech: “Beerševa”
  • Danish: “Beersheba”
  • Dutch: “Beër Sjeva”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بئر السبع المصريه الجديده”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بئر السبع”
  • Esperanto: “Be’er Ŝeba”
  • Esperanto: “Beer Ŝeba”
  • Estonian: “Be’er-Sheva”
  • Estonian: “Beer-Sheva”
  • Finnish: “Beerseba”
  • French: “Beer-Sheva”
  • Galician: “Bersebá”
  • Georgian: “ბეერ-შევა”
  • German: “Be’er Scheva”
  • German: “Beʾer Scheva”
  • German: “Biʾr as-Sabʿ”
  • Greek: “Μπερ Σεβά”
  • Gujarati: “બીરશેબા”
  • Hebrew: “באר שבע”
  • Hebrew: “באר-שבע”
  • Hindi: “बेर्शेबा”
  • Hungarian: “Beér-Seva”
  • Indonesian: “Beersheba”
  • Indonesian: “Bersyeba”
  • Interlingue: “Beer Sheva”
  • Irish: “Beersheba”
  • Italian: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Italian: “Bersabea”
  • Japanese: “ベエルシェバ”
  • Javanese: “Beersheba”
  • Kalaallisut: “Beersheba”
  • Kannada: “ಬೀರ್ಷೆಬಾ”
  • Korean: “베르셰바”
  • Ladino: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Ladino: “Beer Sheva”
  • Latvian: “Beerševa”
  • Limburgan: “Be’er Sjeva”
  • Limburgan: “Beer Sjeva”
  • Lithuanian: “Beer Ševa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Beersheba”
  • Macedonian: “Бершева”
  • Malagasy: “Beersheba”
  • Malay: “Beersheba”
  • Malay: “Bi’r as-Sab”
  • Malayalam: “ബീർഷെബ”
  • Maltese: “Beersheba”
  • Manx: “Beersheba”
  • Marathi: “बेरशेबा”
  • Mingrelian: “ბეერ-შევა”
  • Moksha: “Беэр-Шэва”
  • Mongolian: “Беэр-Шева”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بئر السبع”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beer Sheva”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beer Sheva”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beersheba”
  • Norwegian: “Beer Sheva”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Beershebà”
  • Ossetian: “Беэр-Шева”
  • Persian: “بئر شوا”
  • Persian: “بئرشبع”
  • Polish: “Beer Szewa”
  • Portuguese: “Bersebá”
  • Romanian: “Beer Șeva”
  • Russian: “Беэр-Шева”
  • Samogitian: “Beėršėva”
  • Sardinian: “Beersheba”
  • Scots: “Beersheba”
  • Serbian: “Бершева”
  • Serbian: “Биршеба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beersheba”
  • Silesian: “Beer Szewa”
  • Sinhala: “බියර්ශේබා”
  • Slovak: “Beer Ševa”
  • Slovenian: “Beeršeba”
  • Spanish: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Spanish: “Beerseba”
  • Swahili: “Beersheba”
  • Swedish: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Swedish: “Beer Sheba”
  • Swedish: “Beer Sheva”
  • Tagalog: “B’er Sheva‘”
  • Tagalog: “Berseba”
  • Tamil: “பீர்சேபா”
  • Telugu: “బెయేర్షెబా”
  • Thai: “เบเอร์เชวาอ์”
  • Thai: “เบียร์ชีบา”
  • Turkish: “Beerşeba”
  • Ukrainian: “Беер-Шева”
  • Urdu: “بئر السبع”
  • Urdu: “بئر سبع”
  • Urdu: “بیر سبع”
  • Uzbek: “Bir as-saba”
  • Venetian: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Vietnamese: “Beersheba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beersheba”
  • Welsh: “Beersheba”
  • Wu Chinese: “贝尔谢巴”
  • Yiddish: “באר שבע”
  • Yue Chinese: “別是巴”
  • Zeeuws: “Beër Sjeva”
  • “Beersheba”

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