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.
  • Town with about 34,100 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 460 metres (1,520 feet)
  • …is also known as “Domona”
  • …dates from 1955
  • Description: city in Israel

Places of Interest

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Railway station
railway station is a train station in , , opened in 2005.
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Latitude
31.0687° or 31° 4′ 7″ north
Longitude
35.0366° or 35° 2′ 12″ east
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Open location code
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Dimona” goes by many names.
DimonaAfrikaans
DimonaAlbanian
ديموناArabic
ديمونةArabic
ديمونهArabic
ԴիմոնաArmenian
DimonaAsturian
DimonaBasque
ДзімонаBelarusian
ДымонаBelarusian
DimonaBreton
ДимонаBulgarian
DimonaCatalan
DimonaCebuano
دیمۆناCentral Kurdish
迪莫納Chinese
迪莫纳Chinese
DimonaCroatian
DimonaCzech
DimonaDutch
Dimona (Israel)Dutch
ديموناEgyptian Arabic
DimonaEsperanto
DimonaEstonian
DimonaFinnish
DimonaGalician
დიმონაGeorgian
ΝτιμόναGreek
דִּימוֹנָה‎Hebrew
डिमोनाHindi
DimonaIndonesian
DimónaIrish
DimonaItalian
ディモナJapanese
디모나Korean
ДимонаMacedonian
DimonaNorwegian
DimonaNorwegian Bokmål
DimonaNorwegian Nynorsk
دیموناPersian
دیمونهPersian
شهر دیموناPersian
DimonaPolish
دېموناPushto
DimonaRomanian
ДимонаRussian
DimonaScots
ДимонаSerbian
DimonaSwahili
DimonaSwedish
DimonaTagalog
DimonaTurkish
ДімонаUkrainian
دیموناUrdu
دیمونہUrdu
DimonaVietnamese
DimonaWaray (Philippines)
דימונהYiddish

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