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Gaza Strip

The Gaza Strip is a in the . The capital and largest city is Gaza. Portions of this page may be out of date because the situation on the ground changes quickly.
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  • Type: State with 1,480,000 residents
  • Description: self-governing Palestinian territory next to Egypt and Israel
  • Also known as: “Gaza”, “Qiţā` Ghazzah”, and “Strip of Gaza”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Deir El Belah War Cemetery and Gaza Power Station.

Cemetery
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The Deir El Balah War Cemetery was established in March 1917. After the Armistice of Mudros ended the Ottoman Empire's participation in the First World War, some graves were relocated from nearby to the Deir El Balah War Cemetery.

Power station
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The Gaza Power Plant is a fossil fuel power station in Gaza Strip, .

Ruins
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was a kibbutz and an Israeli settlement within the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nuseirat refugee camp and Deir el-Balah.

Town
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Nuseirat Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the middle of the Gaza Strip, five kilometers north-east of . The refugee camp is in the , Gaza Strip.

Town
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Deir al-Balah is a city in the center of the Gaza Strip, , and the administrative capital of the . It is located over 14 kilometers south of .

Suburb
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is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the central Gaza Strip east of the Salah al-Din Road in the . The camp's total land area is 529 dunums and in 2017, it had a population of 28,024 with 28,770 registered refugees.

Gaza Strip

Latitude
31.4432° or 31° 26′ 36″ north
Longitude
34.36° or 34° 21′ 36″ east
Population
1,480,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
8G3PC9V6+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 581141063
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
281132
Wiki­data ID
Q39760
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Gaza Strip” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Galuë Gaza”
  • Afrikaans: “Gasastrook”
  • Afrikaans: “Gaza-Strook”
  • Afrikaans: “Gazastrook”
  • Albanian: “Gaza”
  • Albanian: “Rripi i Gazës”
  • Amharic: “የጋዛ ስላጤ”
  • Arabic: “غزة”
  • Arabic: “قطاع غزة”
  • Arabic: “قطاع غزّة”
  • Arabic: “قطاع غزه”
  • Aragonese: “Faixa de Gaza”
  • Aragonese: “Faxa de Gaza”
  • Aragonese: “Francha de Gaza”
  • Armenian: “Գազայի հատված”
  • Armenian: “Գազայի սեկտոր”
  • Asturian: “Franxa de Gaza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəzza zolağı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəzzə zolağı”
  • Bashkir: “Ғәззә секторы”
  • Basque: “Gaza”
  • Basque: “Gazako lur zerrenda”
  • Basque: “Gazako zerrenda”
  • Bavarian: “Gaza-Streifn”
  • Bavarian: “Gazastreifn”
  • Belarusian: “Паласа Газы”
  • Belarusian: “Сектар Газа”
  • Belarusian: “Сектар Газы”
  • Belarusian: “Сэктар Газы”
  • Bengali: “قطاع غزة”
  • Bengali: “গাজা উপত্যকা”
  • Bengali: “গাজা ভূখণ্ড”
  • Bengali: “গাজা ভূখন্ড”
  • Bengali: “গাজা”
  • Betawi: “Jalur Gajah”
  • Bhojpuri: “ग़ज़ा पट्टी”
  • Bhojpuri: “गाजा पट्टी”
  • Bhojpuri: “ग़ाज़ा पट्टी”
  • Bhojpuri: “गाजा स्ट्रिप”
  • Bhojpuri: “गाजाह् पट्टी”
  • Bosnian: “Pojas Gaze”
  • Brahui: “Ģazá”
  • Breton: “Bandenn Gaza”
  • Breton: “Strizhenn Gaza”
  • Bulgarian: “Ивица Газа”
  • Bulgarian: “Ивицата Газа”
  • Burmese: “ဂါဇာကမ်းမြောင်”
  • Catalan: “Franja de Gaza”
  • Catalan: “Gaza”
  • Cebuano: “Gasa”
  • Cebuano: “Gaza”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەرتی غەززە”
  • Chechen: “Газа сектор”
  • Chechen: “ГӀазза”
  • Chinese: “Gaza Tòa”
  • Chinese: “Jiāshā Dìdài”
  • Chinese: “加沙地带”
  • Chinese: “加沙地帶”
  • Chinese: “加沙走廊”
  • Chinese: “加薩地帶”
  • Chinese: “加薩走廊”
  • Chuvash: “Газа Сектор”
  • Cornish: “Konna Gasa”
  • Cornish: “Len Gaza”
  • Corsican: “Gaza”
  • Corsican: “striscia di Gaza”
  • Corsican: “Striscia di Gaza”
  • Croatian: “Pojas Gaze”
  • Czech: “Pásmo Gaza”
  • Czech: “Pásmo Gazy”
  • Danish: “Gaza striben”
  • Danish: “Gaza-striben”
  • Danish: “Gazastriben”
  • Dutch: “Gaza”
  • Dutch: “Gazastrook”
  • Dutch: “Strook van Gaza”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قطاع غزه”
  • Esperanto: “Gaza Sektoro”
  • Esperanto: “Gaza-Sektoro”
  • Esperanto: “Gaza-strio”
  • Esperanto: “Gazaa Sektoro”
  • Esperanto: “Sektoro de Gaza”
  • Esperanto: “Sektoro Gaza”
  • Esperanto: “Sektoro Gazo”
  • Esperanto: “Strio de Gaza”
  • Esperanto: “Zono Gazo”
  • Estonian: “Gaza piirkond”
  • Estonian: “Gaza sektor”
  • Estonian: “Gaza tsoon”
  • Extremaduran: “Franja de Gaza”
  • Faroese: “Gasageirin”
  • Finnish: “Gaza”
  • Finnish: “Gazan kaista”
  • French: “bande de Gaza”
  • French: “Bande de Gaza”
  • Friulian: “Striche di Gaze”
  • Fulah: “Ciifol Gaaza”
  • Galician: “Faixa de Gaza”
  • Galician: “Franxa de Gaza”
  • Georgian: “ღაზას სექტორი”
  • Georgian: “ღაზის სექტორი”
  • German: “Gasastreifen”
  • German: “Gaza-Streifen”
  • German: “Gaza”
  • German: “Gazastreifen”
  • German: “Ghazastreifen”
  • Greek: “Λωρίδα της Γάζας”
  • Guarani: “Gása”
  • Guarani: “Yvypehẽ Gása”
  • Gujarati: “ગાઝા સ્ટ્રિપ”
  • Gujarati: “ગાઝા સ્ટ્રીપ”
  • Hausa: “Zirin Gaza”
  • Hebrew: “חבל עזה”
  • Hebrew: “עזה”
  • Hebrew: “רצועת עזה”
  • Hindi: “ग़ज़ा पट्टी”
  • Hindi: “गाजा पट्टी”
  • Hindi: “गाज़ा पट्टी”
  • Hungarian: “Gáza”
  • Hungarian: “Gázai övezet”
  • Hungarian: “Gázai-övezet”
  • Hungarian: “רצועת עזה”
  • Hungarian: “قطاع غزة”
  • Icelandic: “Gasaströndin”
  • Icelandic: “Gasasvæðið”
  • Icelandic: “Gaza-ströndin”
  • Icelandic: “Gaza-svæðið”
  • Icelandic: “Gaza”
  • Icelandic: “Gazaströndin”
  • Ido: “Gaza-strio”
  • Indonesian: “Gaza”
  • Indonesian: “Jalur Gaza”
  • Interlingua: “Banda de Gaza”
  • Interlingue: “Strie de Gaza”
  • Irish: “Stráice Gaza”
  • Italian: “Striscia di Gaza”
  • Japanese: “ガザ”
  • Japanese: “ガザ地区”
  • Javanese: “Gaza”
  • Javanese: “Lurung Gaza”
  • Javanese: “Semenanjung Gaza”
  • Kabyle: “Azawag n Ɣazza”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಜ ಪಟ್ಟಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಜಾ ಪಟ್ಟಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಝಾ ಪಟ್ಟಿ”
  • Kashmiri: “غزہ پٔٹ”
  • Kazakh: “Газа секторы”
  • Khmer: “ដីជ្រោយហ្គាស្សា”
  • Khmer: “ដែនជ្រោយហ្កាហ្សា”
  • Komering: “Rangrang Gaza”
  • Korean: “가자 지구”
  • Korean: “가자지구”
  • Korean: “가자지대”
  • Kurdish: “Şirîta Gaze”
  • Kurdish: “Şirîta Xazeyê”
  • Kurdish: “Şirîta Xezeyê”
  • Kurdish: “Xeza”
  • Kurdish: “Xezza”
  • Ladino: “Banda de Azah”
  • Ladino: “Banda de Gaza”
  • Lao: “ສະໜວນກາຊາ”
  • Latin: “Gaza”
  • Latin: “Lacinia Gazetica”
  • Latvian: “Gazas josla”
  • Latvian: “Gazas sektors”
  • Lezghian: “Сектор Гъазза”
  • Limburgan: “Gazastroek”
  • Limburgan: “Gazastrook”
  • Lithuanian: “Gazos Ruožas”
  • Lombard: “Striscia de Gaza”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gaza”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gazasträif”
  • Macedonian: “Појас Газа”
  • Maithili: “गाजा पट्टी”
  • Malagasy: “Salavantanin’ i Gaza”
  • Malagasy: “Sombin-tanin’i Gaza”
  • Malay: “Genting Gaza”
  • Malay: “Jalur Gaza”
  • Malay: “Jaluran Gaza”
  • Malay: “Semenanjung Gaza”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാസ സ്ട്രിപ്പ്”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാസ”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാസാ മുനമ്പ്”
  • Maltese: “Medda ta‘ Gaża”
  • Maltese: “Strixxa ta‘ Gaża”
  • Manx: “Straih Gaza”
  • Manx: “Straih Ghaza”
  • Marathi: “गाझा पट्टी”
  • Mazanderani: “غزه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gaza Tòa”
  • Minangkabau: “Jalur Gaza”
  • Mingrelian: “ღაზაშ სექტორი”
  • Mongolian: “Газын зурвас”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “قطاع غزة”
  • Nepali: “गाजा क्षेत्र”
  • Nepali: “गाजा पट्टी”
  • Nepali: “गाजा स्ट्रिप”
  • North Levantine Arabic: “قطاع غزّة”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gazastrimel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gaza-stripen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gaza”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gazastripa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gazastripen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gaza-stripa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gaza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gazastripa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ghaza”
  • Norwegian: “Gazastripen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Faissa de Gaza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gaza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lista de Gaza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Listra de Gaza”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gasaþwang”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gazaþwang”
  • Ossetian: “Газæйы Сектор”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਾਜ਼ਾ ਪੱਟੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Faha di Gaza”
  • Persian: “باریکه غزه”
  • Persian: “نوار غزه (ضبط شده در غزه)”
  • Persian: “نوار غزه”
  • Polish: “Okręg Gazy”
  • Polish: “Strefa Gazy”
  • Portuguese: “Faixa de Gaza”
  • Portuguese: “Gaza”
  • Pushto: “غزې تړانګه”
  • Romanian: “Fasia Gaza”
  • Romanian: “Fâşia Gaza”
  • Romanian: “Fâșia Gaza”
  • Romanian: “Gaza”
  • Russian: “сектор Газа”
  • Russian: “Сектор Газа”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱟᱡᱟ ᱴᱚᱴᱷᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Fròngia de Gaza”
  • Sardinian: “Gaza”
  • Scots: “Gaza Strip”
  • Scots: “Gaza”
  • Scots: “Strip o Gaza”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gàsa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Raon Ghàsa”
  • Serbian: “Област Газе”
  • Serbian: “Појас Газе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pojas Gaze”
  • Sicilian: “Gaza”
  • Sicilian: “Gazza”
  • Sicilian: “Striscia di Gaza”
  • Sicilian: “Striscia di Gazza”
  • Silesian: “Cōuna Gasy”
  • Sindhi: “غزه جي پٽي”
  • Sinhala: “ගාසා තීරය”
  • Slovak: “Pásmo Gazy”
  • Slovenian: “Gaza”
  • Slovenian: “Območje Gaze”
  • Somali: “Marinka Gaza”
  • Somali: “Marinka Qasa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “غزه زولاغی”
  • Spanish: “Franja de Gaza”
  • Sundanese: “Jalur Gaza”
  • Swahili: “Kanda la Gaza”
  • Swahili: “Ukanda wa Gaza”
  • Swedish: “Gazah”
  • Swedish: “Gazaremsan”
  • Swiss German: “Gazastreifen”
  • Sylheti: “ꠉꠣꠎꠣ ꠐꠥꠝꠣ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠉꠣꠏꠣ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠦꠠꠖꠦꠃꠀ ꠉꠣꠏꠣ”
  • Tagalog: “Gaza Strip”
  • Tagalog: “Gaza”
  • Tagalog: “Piraso ng Gaza”
  • Tajik: “Навори Ғазза”
  • Tamil: “காசா கரை”
  • Tamil: “காசா பகுதி”
  • Tamil: “காசா”
  • Tamil: “காசாக் கரை”
  • Tamil: “காசாக்கரை”
  • Tamil: “காஜா ஸ்ட்ரிப்”
  • Tatar: “Газзә секторы”
  • Telugu: “గాజా స్ట్రిప్”
  • Thai: “กาซา”
  • Thai: “ฉนวนกาซา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Gazastreifen”
  • Turkish: “Gazze Şeridi”
  • Turkish: “Gazze Yönetimi”
  • Ukrainian: “сектор Газа”
  • Ukrainian: “сектор Гази”
  • Ukrainian: “Сектор Гази”
  • Ukrainian: “смуга Газа”
  • Ukrainian: “смуга Гази”
  • Urdu: “غزہ پٹی”
  • Urdu: “غزہ کی پٹی”
  • Uzbek: “Gʻazo sektori”
  • Uzbek: “Gʻazza sektori”
  • Venetian: “Strisa de Gaza”
  • Veps: “Gazan sektor”
  • Vietnamese: “Dải Gaza”
  • Walloon: “Binde di Gaza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gaza Strip”
  • Welsh: “Llain Gasa”
  • Welsh: “Llain Gaza”
  • Western Frisian: “Gazastreek”
  • Western Frisian: “Gazastripe”
  • Western Panjabi: “غزہ دی پٹی”
  • Wu Chinese: “加沙地带”
  • Yiddish: “עזה פאס”
  • Yiddish: “עזה שטרייף”
  • Yiddish: “עזה־שטרײַף”
  • Yoruba: “Gaza Strip”
  • Yue Chinese: “加沙地帶”
  • Yue Chinese: “加沙走廊”
  • Zeeuws: “Gazastroôke”
  • “ma Kasa”
  • “ma palisa Kasa”
  • “गाजा पट्टी”

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