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Haifa District

Carmel Range

The Carmel Range, often referred to simply as "Mount Carmel", is a compact region of hills in extending westwards from the Central Hill country to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Haifa and Zikhron Ya’akov.

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is the third largest city in and the largest city in the north of the country with a population of 282,000. The city is located on Israel's Mediterranean shoreline, on Mount Carmel and at its foot.

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Zikhron Ya'akov is a small town in the south slope of the Carmel Range, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. It was founded in 1882 by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild. It is famous for the Carmel Winery, and for the midrahov in the city center.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Giv’at HaHagana and Isfiya military cemetery.

Park
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is a park.

Cemetery
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Picnic site
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Palestine Final Fortress was the 1942 defence plan for Mandatory Palestine at World War II against a possible German invasion from the north.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nesher and Isfiya.

Town
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is a city in the of . In 2023 it had a population of 22,760. It was founded in 1923 as a workers town for the Cement factory, the first cement factory in the country.

Village
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, also known as Usfiya, is a Druze-majority village in northern , governed by a local council. It also includes Christians, Muslims and a few Jewish households.

Village
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is a Druze town located on Mount Carmel in the of , around 20 km southeast of . In 2023 its population was 18,001.

Carmel Range

  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 546 metres
  • Description: mountain in Israel
  • Also known as: “Carmel”, “Carmelus”, “Elijah’s Mount”, “Har Carmel”, “Har Hakarmel”, “Har Karmel”, “Jebel el Karmel”, “Jebel Kurmul”, “Jebel Mar Elyas”, “Jebel Mār Elyās”, “Karmelos”, “Karmēlos”, “Mount Carmel”, and “Mt. Carmel”
  • Categories: mountain range and landform
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude
32.7303° or 32° 43′ 49″ north
Longitude
35.0501° or 35° 3′ 0″ east
Elevation
546 metres (1,791 feet)
Open location code
8G4QP3J2+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278477246
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
294579
Wiki­data ID
Q185318
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Carmel Range” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Karmelberg”
  • Arabic: “الكرمل”
  • Arabic: “جبل الكرمل”
  • Asturian: “Monte Carmelo”
  • Basque: “Karmel mendia”
  • Basque: “Karmelo mendia”
  • Belarusian: “Гара Кармель”
  • Belarusian: “Кармель”
  • Belarusian: “Кармэль”
  • Breton: “Menez Karmel”
  • Bulgarian: “Кармел”
  • Bulgarian: “Планината Кармел”
  • Catalan: “Carmel”
  • Catalan: “mont Carmel”
  • Catalan: “Mont Carmel”
  • Catalan: “munt Carmel”
  • Catalan: “Muntanya del Carmel”
  • Cebuano: “Bukid Carmel”
  • Cebuano: “Bukid Carmelo”
  • Cebuano: “Bukid Karmel”
  • Cebuano: “Bukid Karmelo”
  • Cebuano: “Bundok Carmel”
  • Cebuano: “Bundok Carmelo”
  • Cebuano: “Bundok Karmel”
  • Cebuano: “Bundok Karmelo”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Carmel”
  • Cebuano: “Mt. Carmel”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیاکانی کارمێڵ”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیای کارمێل”
  • Chinese: “加尔慕罗山”
  • Chinese: “加爾默羅山”
  • Chinese: “卡梅尔山”
  • Chinese: “迦密山”
  • Croatian: “Karmel”
  • Czech: “Karmel”
  • Czech: “Karmelské hory”
  • Danish: “Karmel”
  • Danish: “Karmelbjerget”
  • Dutch: “Berg Karmel”
  • Dutch: “Karmel”
  • Dutch: “Karmelberg”
  • Dutch: “Karmelgebergte”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل الكرمل”
  • Esperanto: “Karmel-montaro”
  • Esperanto: “Karmel”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Karmel”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Karmelo”
  • Finnish: “Karmelvuori”
  • French: “mont Carmel”
  • French: “Mont Carmel”
  • Georgian: “კარმელი”
  • German: “Berg Karmel”
  • German: “Berg”
  • German: “Carmel”
  • German: “Karmel-Gebirge”
  • German: “Karmel”
  • German: “Karmelgebirge”
  • Greek: “Κάρμελ”
  • Greek: “Κάρμηλος”
  • Greek: “όρος Καρμέλ”
  • Greek: “Όρος Κάρμελ”
  • Greek: “Όρος Κάρμηλος”
  • Hebrew: “הכרמל”
  • Hebrew: “הר הכרמל”
  • Hebrew: “הר כרמל”
  • Hebrew: “הרי הכרמל”
  • Hebrew: “כרמל”
  • Hebrew: “מורדות הכרמל”
  • Hebrew: “רום כרמל”
  • Hebrew: “רכס הכרמל ואזור צפון-מערב השומרון”
  • Hebrew: “רכס הכרמל”
  • Hungarian: “Kármel-hegy”
  • Hungarian: “Kármel”
  • Icelandic: “Karmelfjall”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Karmel”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Chairmeil”
  • Italian: “Catena del Carmelo”
  • Italian: “monte Carmelo”
  • Italian: “Monte Carmelo”
  • Italian: “Parco nazionale del Monte Carmelo”
  • Japanese: “カルメル山”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Karmel”
  • Korean: “가르멜 산”
  • Korean: “갈멜 산”
  • Korean: “카르멜산”
  • Ladin: “Mont Carmel”
  • Lithuanian: “Karmėlio kalnai”
  • Lithuanian: “Karmelio kalnas”
  • Lithuanian: “Karmėlio kalnas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bierg Karmel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mount Carmel”
  • Macedonian: “Кармел”
  • Macedonian: “Кармил”
  • Malagasy: “Tendrombohitra Karmela”
  • Mazanderani: “مونته کارملو”
  • Mongolian: “Кармел уул”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karmel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karmelberget”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karmelfjellet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karmelberget”
  • Norwegian: “Karmelberget”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Carmel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Carmèl”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡈࡅࡓ ࡊࡀࡓࡌࡋࡀ”
  • Persian: “کوه کرمل”
  • Persian: “کوهٔ کرمل”
  • Polish: “Góra Karmel”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Carmelo”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Carmel”
  • Russian: “Кармель”
  • Russian: “Кармил”
  • Scots: “Moont Carmel”
  • Serbian: “Кармел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karmel”
  • Slovak: “Karmel”
  • Slovenian: “gora Karmel”
  • Slovenian: “Karmel”
  • Spanish: “Monte Carmelo”
  • Swahili: “Mlima Karmeli”
  • Swedish: “Carmelbergen”
  • Swedish: “Carmelberget”
  • Swedish: “Karmelbergen”
  • Swedish: “Karmelberget”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok Carmel”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok Carmelo”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok Karmelo”
  • Tagalog: “Mount Carmel”
  • Tagalog: “Mt. Carmel”
  • Tamil: “கார்மேல் மலை”
  • Turkish: “Karmel Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Kermil Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Кармел”
  • Ukrainian: “Кармель”
  • Urdu: “کوہ کرمل”
  • Venetian: “Monte Carmelo”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Carmel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Carmelo”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Carmel”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوہ کرمل”
  • Wu Chinese: “迦密山”
  • Yiddish: “כרמל בארג”

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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 “Carmel Range”. Photo: Chadner, Public domain.