Israel
Negev
Southern District

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’eyr-Sheva‘”, “Be’er Sheva”, “Be’er Sheva`”, “Beer Sheba”, “Beer-Sheba”, “Beersheba”, “Berséba”, “Bir al-Sabi”, “Bir el Saba”, “Bir es Sab`”, “Bir es Sabe”, and “Biʾr as-Sabʿ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Soroka hospital and Be’er Sheva Merkaz.

Hospital
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Soroka University Medical Center, a part of the Group, is the general hospital of Beersheba, , it serves as the central hospital of the region and provides medical services to approximately one million residents of the South, from and to .

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Be'er Sheva–Center railway station is an Israel Railways terminal in Beersheba. It is located on Yitzhak Ben-Zvi street next to the city's central bus station and HaNegev Mall.

Museum
Abraham's Well is a historical water well in Beersheba, , associated with the biblical narrative of Abraham. Its structure houses the archaeology museum of Beersheba.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Neve Noy and Kfar Refael.

Suburb
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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
United Nations Location Code
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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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”
  • Arabic: “محافظة بئر السبع”
  • Armenian: “Բեեր Շևա”
  • Asturian: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Asturian: “Beer Sheba”
  • Asturian: “Beer Sheva”
  • Asturian: “Beerseba”
  • Asturian: “Beersheba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Beer-Şeva”
  • Basque: “Beer-Xeva”
  • Basque: “Beerxeba”
  • Bavarian: “Be’er Scheva”
  • Bavarian: “Beer Scheva”
  • Belarusian: “Беэр-Шэва”
  • Bengali: “বে-এরশেভা”
  • Betawi: “Biir Saba‘”
  • Betawi: “Biir Saba’”
  • Bulgarian: “Беер Шеба”
  • Bulgarian: “Беер Шева”
  • Bulgarian: “Беершеба”
  • Catalan: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Catalan: “Beer Sheva”
  • Catalan: “Beersheba”
  • Catalan: “Beersheva”
  • Catalan: “Beerxeba”
  • Catalan: “Beerxeva”
  • Catalan: “Bersheba”
  • Catalan: “Bir al-Sab”
  • Cebuano: “Beersheba”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیر سەبع”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێرشیبا”
  • Chinese: “別是巴”
  • Chinese: “别是巴”
  • Chinese: “比尔谢巴”
  • Chinese: “貝爾謝巴”
  • Chinese: “贝尔谢巴”
  • Croatian: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Croatian: “Beer Šeba”
  • Croatian: “Beer Ševa”
  • Croatian: “Beer-sheva”
  • Croatian: “Beersheba”
  • Croatian: “Beršeba”
  • Czech: “Be’er Ševa”
  • Czech: “Beer Ševa”
  • Czech: “Beerševa”
  • Czech: “Berševa”
  • Danish: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Danish: “Beersheba”
  • Danish: “BeerSheva”
  • Dutch: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Dutch: “Beer Sheva”
  • Dutch: “Beër Sheva”
  • Dutch: “Beer Sjeva”
  • Dutch: “Beër Sjeva”
  • Dutch: “Beer-Sheva”
  • Dutch: “Beër-Sheva”
  • Dutch: “Beersheba”
  • Dutch: “Beersjeba”
  • Dutch: “Beersjeva”
  • Dutch: “Ber-seba”
  • Dutch: “Berseba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بئر السبع المصريه الجديده”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بئر السبع”
  • Esperanto: “Be’er Ŝeba”
  • Esperanto: “Be’er Ŝeva”
  • Esperanto: “Be’er-Ŝeva”
  • Esperanto: “Beer Ŝeba”
  • Esperanto: “Beer-Ŝeba”
  • Esperanto: “Berŝeba”
  • Esperanto: “Berŝeva”
  • Esperanto: “Birŝeba”
  • Estonian: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Estonian: “Be’ér-Sheva‘”
  • Estonian: “Be’er-Sheva”
  • Estonian: “Beer Sheva”
  • Estonian: “Beer-Sheva”
  • Finnish: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Finnish: “Beerseba”
  • Finnish: “Beersheba”
  • French: “Beer Sheva”
  • French: “Beer-Sheva”
  • French: “Beersheba”
  • French: “Beersheeva”
  • French: “Beersheva”
  • French: “Bersabée”
  • Galician: “Bersebá”
  • Georgian: “ბეერ შევა”
  • Georgian: “ბეერ-შევა”
  • German: “Be’er Scheva”
  • German: “Be’er Schewa”
  • German: “Be’er Sheva”
  • German: “Beer Scheba”
  • German: “Beer Scheva”
  • German: “Beer Schewa”
  • German: “Beer Sheva”
  • German: “Beer-Sheba”
  • German: “Beer-Sheva”
  • German: “Beerscheba”
  • German: “Beerschewa”
  • German: “Beersheba”
  • German: “Beersheva”
  • German: “Beʾer Scheva”
  • German: “Biʾr as-Sabʿ”
  • Greek: “Μπερ Σεβά”
  • Gujarati: “બીરશેબા”
  • Hebrew: “ב’ש”
  • Hebrew: “באר שבע”
  • Hebrew: “בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע”
  • Hebrew: “באר-שבע”
  • Hindi: “बीरशेबा”
  • Hindi: “बेएर षेवअ”
  • Hungarian: “Beér-Seva”
  • Indonesian: “Beersheba”
  • Indonesian: “Bersyeba”
  • Indonesian: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
  • Interlingue: “Beer Sheva”
  • Irish: “Beersheba”
  • Italian: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Italian: “Beer Sheba”
  • Italian: “Beer Sheva”
  • Italian: “Beersheba”
  • Italian: “Beersheva”
  • Italian: “Bersabea”
  • Japanese: “ベールシェバ”
  • Japanese: “ベエル・シェバ”
  • Japanese: “ベエルシェバ”
  • Javanese: “Beersheba”
  • Kalaallisut: “Beersheba”
  • Kannada: “ಬೀರ್ಷೆಬಾ”
  • Korean: “베르셰바”
  • Korean: “베에르셰바”
  • Ladino: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Ladino: “Be’ersheva”
  • Ladino: “Beer Sheva”
  • Latvian: “Beerševa”
  • Limburgan: “Be’er Sjeva”
  • Limburgan: “Beer Sjeva”
  • Lithuanian: “Beer Ševa”
  • Lithuanian: “Ber Šeba”
  • Lithuanian: “Ber Ševa”
  • Lithuanian: “Beršeba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Beersheba”
  • Macedonian: “Бершева”
  • Malagasy: “Beersheba”
  • Malay: “Beersheba”
  • Malay: “Bi’r as-Sab”
  • Malayalam: “ബീർഷെബ”
  • Maltese: “Beersheba”
  • Manx: “Beersheba”
  • Marathi: “बेरशेबा”
  • Mingrelian: “ბეერ შევა”
  • Mingrelian: “ბეერ-შევა”
  • Mingrelian: “ბეერშევა”
  • Mingrelian: “ვირსავია”
  • Moksha: “Беэр-Шэва”
  • Mongolian: “Беэр-Шева”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Be’er Sheba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beer Sheva”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beersheba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beersheva”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beer Sheva”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beersheba”
  • Norwegian: “Beer Sheva”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Beershebà”
  • Ossetian: “Беэр-Шева”
  • Persian: “بئر السبع”
  • Persian: “بئر شوا”
  • Persian: “بئرشبع”
  • Persian: “بعرشوع”
  • Persian: “بیرشبا”
  • Persian: “بیرشباع”
  • Persian: “شهر بئرشبع”
  • Polish: “Be’er Szewa”
  • Polish: “Beer Sheva”
  • Polish: “Beer Szeba”
  • Polish: “Beer Szewa”
  • Polish: “Beer-Szeba”
  • Polish: “Ber Szewa”
  • Portuguese: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Portuguese: “Beersheba”
  • Portuguese: “Beersheva”
  • Portuguese: “Berseba”
  • Portuguese: “Bersebá”
  • Portuguese: “Bersheva”
  • Romanian: “Beer Şeva”
  • Romanian: “Beer Șeva”
  • Romanian: “Beer-șeba”
  • Romanian: “Beerşeva”
  • Romanian: “Beerșeva”
  • Romanian: “Beersheba”
  • Russian: “Беер Шева”
  • Russian: “Беер-Шева”
  • Russian: “Беершева”
  • Russian: “Бер Шева”
  • Russian: “Бер-Шева”
  • Russian: “Беэр Шева”
  • Russian: “Беэр-Шева”
  • Russian: “Беэршева”
  • Russian: “Бир-эс-Саба”
  • Russian: “Бээр Шева”
  • Russian: “Бээр Шэва”
  • Russian: “Вирсавия”
  • Samogitian: “Beėršėva”
  • Sardinian: “Beersheba”
  • Scots: “Beersheba”
  • Scots: “בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע”
  • Serbian: “Beer Sheeva”
  • Serbian: “Beer Sheva”
  • Serbian: “Беер Шева”
  • Serbian: “Беершеба”
  • Serbian: “Бер Шева”
  • Serbian: “Бершева”
  • Serbian: “Биршеба”
  • Serbian: “באר שבע”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beer Ševa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beersheba”
  • Silesian: “Beer Szewa”
  • Sinhala: “බියර්ශේබා”
  • Slovak: “Be’er Ševa”
  • Slovak: “Beer Ševa”
  • Slovak: “Ber Ševa”
  • Slovenian: “Beeršeba”
  • Spanish: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Spanish: “Beer Sheba”
  • Spanish: “Beer sheva”
  • Spanish: “Beerseba”
  • Spanish: “Beersheba”
  • Spanish: “Beersheva”
  • Spanish: “Berseba”
  • Spanish: “Bersheva”
  • Swahili: “Beersheba”
  • Swedish: “Baysan”
  • Swedish: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Swedish: “Beer Sheba”
  • Swedish: “Beer Sheva”
  • Swedish: “Beer-Sheva”
  • Swedish: “Beersheba”
  • Swedish: “Ber Sheva”
  • Swedish: “Bersheba”
  • Tagalog: “B’er Sheba‘”
  • Tagalog: “B’er Sheva‘”
  • Tagalog: “B’er Sheva”
  • Tagalog: “Beer Sheba”
  • Tagalog: “Beer Sheva”
  • Tagalog: “Beer-seba”
  • Tagalog: “Beerseba”
  • Tagalog: “Beersheba”
  • Tagalog: “Beersheva”
  • Tagalog: “Ber Sheba”
  • Tagalog: “Ber Sheeba”
  • Tagalog: “Ber Sheva”
  • Tagalog: “Berseba”
  • Tagalog: “Bersheba”
  • Tagalog: “Bersiba”
  • Tagalog: “Bi’r as-Sab‘”
  • Tagalog: “Bi’r as-Sabi‘”
  • Tagalog: “Bir as-Sab”
  • Tagalog: “Bir as-Sabi”
  • Tagalog: “Biras-Sabi”
  • Tagalog: “Birseba”
  • Tagalog: “Birsheba”
  • Tagalog: “Birsiba”
  • Tagalog: “Biʼr as-Sabʻ”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Berseba”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng B’er Sheva‘”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Berseba”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod Berseba”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Berseba”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad Berseba”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Berseba”
  • Tamil: “பீர்சேபா”
  • Telugu: “బెయేర్షెబా”
  • Thai: “เบเอร์เชวาอ์”
  • Thai: “เบียร์ชีบา”
  • Turkish: “Beerşeba”
  • Turkish: “Beersheba”
  • Turkish: “Birüssebi”
  • Ukrainian: “Беер-Шева”
  • Ukrainian: “Беершеба”
  • Urdu: “بئر السبع”
  • Urdu: “بئر سبع”
  • Urdu: “بیر سبع”
  • Uzbek: “BeerSheva”
  • Uzbek: “Bir as-saba”
  • Venetian: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Vietnamese: “Beersheba”
  • Vietnamese: “Beersheva”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beersheba”
  • Welsh: “Beersheba”
  • Wu Chinese: “贝尔谢巴”
  • Yiddish: “באר שבע”
  • Yue Chinese: “別是巴”
  • Zeeuws: “Beër Sjeva”
  • “Beėršėva”
  • “Beersheba”

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