Dimona

Dimona is a small town in the north-eastern desert of . It is the third-largest city in the Negev, with a population of about 34,000. Dimona is mostly known for the nearby nuclear research facility, which according to various unofficial publications is the home of Israel's nuclear weapons program.
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  • Type: Town with 34,500 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Dimona (Israel)”, “Domona”, “דִּימוֹנָה‎”, “ديمونه”, “دیمونه”, and “شهر دیمونا”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Dimona and Dimona Cemetery.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
railway station is a train station in , , opened in 2005.

Cemetery
Photo: YoavR, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dimona

Latitude
31.0687° or 31° 4′ 7″ north
Longitude
35.0366° or 35° 2′ 12″ east
Population
34,500
Elevation
551 metres (1,808 feet)
Established
1955
UN/LOCODE
IL DIM
Open location code
8G3Q329P+FM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 275283306
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
295328
Wiki­data ID
Q152396
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Dimona” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dimona”
  • Albanian: “Dimona”
  • Arabic: “ديمونا”
  • Arabic: “ديمونة”
  • Armenian: “Դիմոնա”
  • Asturian: “Dimona”
  • Basque: “Dimona”
  • Belarusian: “Дзімона”
  • Belarusian: “Дымона”
  • Breton: “Dimona”
  • Bulgarian: “Димона”
  • Catalan: “Dimona”
  • Cebuano: “Dimona”
  • Central Kurdish: “دیمۆنا”
  • Chinese: “迪莫納”
  • Chinese: “迪莫纳”
  • Croatian: “Dimona”
  • Czech: “Dimona”
  • Dutch: “Dimona”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديمونا”
  • Esperanto: “Dimona”
  • Estonian: “Dimona”
  • Finnish: “Dimona”
  • French: “Dimona”
  • Galician: “Dimona”
  • Georgian: “დიმონა”
  • German: “Dimona”
  • Greek: “Ντιμόνα”
  • Hebrew: “דימונה”
  • Hindi: “डिमोना”
  • Indonesian: “Dimona”
  • Irish: “Dimóna”
  • Italian: “Dimona”
  • Japanese: “ディモナ”
  • Korean: “디모나”
  • Macedonian: “Димона”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dimona”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dimona”
  • Norwegian: “Dimona”
  • Persian: “دیمونا”
  • Polish: “Dimona”
  • Portuguese: “Dimona”
  • Pushto: “دېمونا”
  • Romanian: “Dimona”
  • Russian: “Димона”
  • Scots: “Dimona”
  • Serbian: “Димона”
  • Spanish: “Dimona”
  • Swahili: “Dimona”
  • Swedish: “Dimona”
  • Tagalog: “Dimona”
  • Turkish: “Dimona”
  • Ukrainian: “Дімона”
  • Urdu: “دیمونا”
  • Urdu: “دیمونہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Dimona”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dimona”
  • Yiddish: “דימונה”

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