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 Portions of this page may be out of date because the situation on the ground changes quickly.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: “Faissa de Gaza”, “Fasia Gaza”, “Faxa de Gaza”, “Gasa”, “Gàsa”, “Gasastreifen”, “Gasasvæðið”, “Gáza”, “Gaza piirkond”, “Gaza striben”, “Gaza-Sektoro”, “Gaza-Streifen”, “Gaza-Streifn”, “Gaza-striben”, “Gaza-stripa”, “Gaza-stripen”, “Gaza-Strook”, “Gaza-svæðið”, “Gazah”, “Gázai-övezet”, “Gazas sektors”, “Gazastroek”, “Gazaströndin”, “Gazza”, “Gazze Yönetimi”, “Ghaza”, “Ghazastreifen”, “Gʻazza sektori”, “Jaluran Gaza”, “Kanda la Gaza”, “Lista de Gaza”, “Llain Gasa”, “Medda ta‘ Gaża”, “Okręg Gazy”, “Pásmo Gaza”, “Qiţā` Ghazzah”, “Sektoro de Gaza”, “Sektoro Gaza”, “Sektoro Gazo”, “Semenanjung Gaza”, “Şirîta Gaze”, “Şirîta Xazeyê”, “Strio de Gaza”, “Strip o Gaza”, “Strip of Gaza”, “striscia di Gaza”, “Striscia di Gazza”, “Strook van Gaza”, “Xeza”, “Xezza”, “Zono Gazo”, “Ивицата Газа”, “Област Газе”, “Сектар Газы”, “смуга Газа”, “смуга Гази”, “Сэктар Газы”, “ღაზას სექტორი”, “Գազայի սեկտոր”, “חבל עזה”, “עזה”, “עזה שטרייף”, “עזה־שטרײַף”, “باریکه غزه”, “غزة”, “गाजा क्षेत्र”, “ग़ाज़ा पट्टी”, “गाजा स्ट्रिप”, “गाजाह् पट्टी”, “গাজা উপত্যকা”, “গাজা ভূখন্ড”, “ગાઝા સ્ટ્રિપ”, “காசா”, “காசா பகுதி”, “காசாக் கரை”, “காஜா ஸ்ட்ரிப்”, “ಗಾಜ ಪಟ್ಟಿ”, “ಗಾಝಾ ಪಟ್ಟಿ”, “ഗാസ സ്ട്രിപ്പ്”, “ꠉꠣꠏꠣ”, “ꠛꠦꠠꠖꠦꠃꠀ ꠉꠣꠏꠣ”, “กาซา”, “ហ្កាហ្សា”, “ហ្កាហ្សាស្ទ្រីប”, “ហ្គាហ្សា”, “가자지구”, “가자지대”, “ガザ”, and “加薩地帶”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Saint Hilarion Monastery and Deir El Belah War Cemetery.

Archaeological site
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was an ancient Christian monastery in .

Cemetery
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The Deir El Balah War Cemetery was established in March 1917.

Power station
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The Gaza Power Plant is a fossil fuel power station in 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…

Town
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Deir al-Balah is a city in the center of the…

Suburb
Photo: Khalid AlSaidni, CC BY 4.0.
is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the…

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”
  • Albanian: “Gaza”
  • Albanian: “Rripi i Gazës”
  • Amharic: “የጋዛ ስላጤ”
  • Amharic: “ጋዛ ስትሪፕ”
  • Arabic: “قطاع غزة”
  • Aragonese: “Faixa de Gaza”
  • Aragonese: “Francha de Gaza”
  • Armenian: “Գազայի հատված”
  • Asturian: “Franxa de Gaza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəzza zolağı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəzzə zolağı”
  • Bashkir: “Ғәззә секторы”
  • Basque: “Gazako lur zerrenda”
  • Basque: “Gazako zerrenda”
  • Bavarian: “Gazastreifn”
  • Belarusian: “Паласа Газы”
  • Belarusian: “Сектар Газа”
  • Bengali: “গাজা ভূখণ্ড”
  • Bengali: “গাজা”
  • Betawi: “Jalur Gajah”
  • Bhojpuri: “गाजा पट्टी”
  • Bosnian: “Pojas Gaze”
  • Brahui: “Ģazá”
  • Breton: “Bandenn Gaza”
  • Breton: “Strizhenn Gaza”
  • Bulgarian: “Ивица Газа”
  • Burmese: “ဂါဇာကမ်းမြောင်”
  • Catalan: “Franja de Gaza”
  • Cebuano: “Gaza”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەرتی غەززە”
  • Chechen: “Газа сектор”
  • Chechen: “ГӀазза”
  • Chinese: “Jiāshā Dìdài”
  • Chinese: “加沙地带”
  • Chinese: “加薩走廊”
  • Chuvash: “Газа Сектор”
  • Cornish: “Konna Gasa”
  • Cornish: “Len Gaza”
  • Corsican: “Striscia di Gaza”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ğazze sektorı”
  • Croatian: “Pojas Gaze”
  • Czech: “Pásmo Gazy”
  • Danish: “Gazastriben”
  • Dutch: “Gazastrook”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قطاع غزه”
  • Esperanto: “Gaza Sektoro”
  • Esperanto: “Gazaa Sektoro”
  • Estonian: “Gaza sektor”
  • Estonian: “Gaza tsoon”
  • Extremaduran: “Franja de Gaza”
  • Faroese: “Gasageirin”
  • 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: “ღაზის სექტორი”
  • German: “Gazastreifen”
  • Greek: “Λωρίδα της Γάζας”
  • Guarani: “Gása”
  • Guarani: “Yvypehẽ Gása”
  • Gujarati: “ગાઝા સ્ટ્રીપ”
  • Hausa: “Zirin Gaza”
  • Hebrew: “רצועת עזה”
  • Hindi: “ग़ज़ा पट्टी”
  • Hindi: “गाज़ा पट्टी”
  • Hungarian: “Gázai övezet”
  • Iban: “Jalur Gaza”
  • Icelandic: “Gasaströndin”
  • Icelandic: “Gaza-ströndin”
  • Ido: “Gaza-strio”
  • Indonesian: “Jalur Gaza”
  • Interlingua: “Banda de Gaza”
  • Interlingue: “Strie de Gaza”
  • Irish: “Stráice Gaza”
  • Italian: “Striscia di Gaza”
  • Japanese: “ガザ地区”
  • Javanese: “Lurung Gaza”
  • Kabyle: “Azawag n Ɣazza”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಜಾ ಪಟ್ಟಿ”
  • Kashmiri: “غزہ پٔٹ”
  • Kazakh: “Газа құрылығы”
  • Kazakh: “Газа секторы”
  • Khmer: “ដីជ្រោយហ្គាស្សា”
  • Khmer: “ដែនជ្រោយហ្កាហ្សា”
  • Kirghiz: “Газа чокусу”
  • Komering: “Rangrang Gaza”
  • Korean: “가자 지구”
  • Kurdish: “Şirîta Xezeyê”
  • Ladino: “Banda de Azah”
  • Ladino: “Banda de Gaza”
  • Lao: “ສະໜວນກາຊາ”
  • Latin: “Lacinia Gazetica”
  • Latvian: “Gazas josla”
  • Lezghian: “Сектор Гъазза”
  • Limburgan: “Gazastrook”
  • Lithuanian: “Gazos Ruožas”
  • Lombard: “Striscia de Gaza”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gazasträif”
  • Macedonian: “Појас Газа”
  • Maithili: “गाजा पट्टी”
  • Malagasy: “Lemak’ i Gaza”
  • Malagasy: “Sombin-tanin’i Gaza”
  • Malay: “Genting Gaza”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാസ”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാസാ മുനമ്പ്”
  • 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 पट्टी”
  • North Levantine Arabic: “قطاع غزّة”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gazastrimel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gazastripen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gazastripa”
  • Norwegian: “Gazastripen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Listra de Gaza”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gasaþwang”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gazaþwang”
  • Oromo: “Xarifa Gaza”
  • Ossetian: “Газæйы Сектор”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਾਜ਼ਾ ਪੱਟੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Faha di Gaza”
  • Persian: “نوار غزه”
  • Polish: “Strefa Gazy”
  • Portuguese: “Faixa de Gaza”
  • Pushto: “غزه غرونه”
  • Pushto: “غزې تړانګه”
  • Romanian: “Fâşia Gaza”
  • Romanian: “Fâșia Gaza”
  • Russian: “сектор Газа”
  • Russian: “Сектор Газа”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱟᱡᱟ ᱴᱚᱴᱷᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Fròngia de Gaza”
  • Scots: “Gaza Strip”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Raon Ghàsa”
  • Serbian: “Појас Газе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pojas Gaze”
  • Sicilian: “Striscia di Gaza”
  • 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: “Ukanda wa Gaza”
  • Swedish: “Gazaremsan”
  • Swiss German: “Gazastreifen”
  • Sylheti: “ꠉꠣꠎꠣ ꠐꠥꠝꠣ”
  • Tagalog: “Piraso ng Gaza”
  • Tajik: “Лентаи Ғаза”
  • Tajik: “Навори Ғазза”
  • Tamil: “காசா கரை”
  • Tamil: “காசாக்கரை”
  • Tatar: “Газа җимасы”
  • Tatar: “Газзә секторы”
  • Telugu: “గాజా స్ట్రిప్”
  • Thai: “ฉนวนกาซา”
  • Turkish: “Gazze Şeridi”
  • Ukrainian: “сектор Гази”
  • Ukrainian: “Сектор Гази”
  • Ukrainian: “Сектор Ґази”
  • Urdu: “غزہ پٹی”
  • Urdu: “غزہ کی پٹی”
  • Uzbek: “G’aza zolasi”
  • Uzbek: “Gʻazo sektori”
  • Venetian: “Strisa de Gaza”
  • Veps: “Gazan sektor”
  • Vietnamese: “Dải Gaza”
  • Walloon: “Binde di Gaza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gaza Strip”
  • Welsh: “Llain Gaza”
  • Western Frisian: “Gazastreek”
  • Western Frisian: “Gazastripe”
  • Western Panjabi: “غزہ دی پٹی”
  • Wu Chinese: “加沙地带”
  • Yiddish: “עזה פאס”
  • Yoruba: “Gaza Strip”
  • Yue Chinese: “加沙地帶”
  • Yue Chinese: “加沙走廊”
  • Zeeuws: “Gazastroôke”
  • “ma Kasa”
  • “ma kipisi Kasa”
  • “गाजा पट्टी”

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Places to explore: Az-Zawayda and Deir al-Balah Refugee Camp.

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