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Carmel Range
Haifa District

Haifa

Haifa 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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  • Type: City with 267,000 residents
  • Description: third-largest city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Caiffa”, “Hayfa”, “Hefa”, and “Heifā”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Centre for the Study of the Texts and Shrine of the Bab.

A Baháʼí House of Worship, or Baháʼí temple, is a place of worship in the Baháʼí Faith. It is also referred to as Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, which in Arabic means "Dawning-place of the remembrances of God".

Bahá’í temple
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The Shrine of the Báb is a structure on the slopes of in Haifa, , where the remains of the Báb, founder of the Bábí Faith and forerunner of Baháʼu'lláh in the Baháʼí Faith, are buried; it is considered to be the second holiest place on Earth for Baháʼís, after the in Acre.

Museum
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The is a museum on the crest of , in Haifa, , dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of Japanese art.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bat Galim and Hadar HaCarmel.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in Haifa, , located at the foot of on the Mediterranean coast. is known for its promenade and sandy beaches.

Suburb
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is a district of Haifa, . Located on the northern slope of between the upper and lower city overlooking the Port of Haifa and Haifa Bay, it was once the commercial center of Haifa.

Suburb
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is a predominantly Arab neighborhood in the city of Haifa, with a population of about 8,000 inhabitants.

Haifa

Latitude
32.8191° or 32° 49′ 9″ north
Longitude
34.9984° or 34° 59′ 54″ east
Population
267,000
Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)
IATA airport code
HFA
United Nations Location Code
IL HFA
Open location code
8G4PRX9X+J9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1656107649
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
294801
Wiki­data ID
Q41621
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Haifa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Haifa”
  • Afrikaans: “Hefa”
  • Albanian: “Haifa”
  • Arabic: “جحفية”
  • Arabic: “حيفا”
  • Aragonese: “Haifa”
  • Armenian: “Հայֆա”
  • Armenian: “Հեյֆա”
  • Armenian: “Հեֆա”
  • Asturian: “Haifa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hayfa”
  • Balinese: “Haifa”
  • Bashkir: “Хайфа”
  • Basque: “Haifa”
  • Bavarian: “Haifa”
  • Belarusian: “Хайфа”
  • Bengali: “হাইফা”
  • Bosnian: “Haifa”
  • Breton: “Haifa”
  • Bulgarian: “Хайфа”
  • Catalan: “Haifa”
  • Catalan: “Hefà”
  • Catalan: “חֵיפָה”
  • Cebuano: “Haifa”
  • Central Kurdish: “حەیفا”
  • Chechen: “Хайфа”
  • Chinese: “海法”
  • Chuvash: “Хайфа”
  • Croatian: “Haifa”
  • Czech: “Haifa”
  • Danish: “Haifa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Haifa”
  • Dutch: “Haifa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حيفا”
  • Esperanto: “Haifa”
  • Esperanto: “Haifo”
  • Esperanto: “Hajfa”
  • Esperanto: “Hajfo”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥajfo”
  • Estonian: “Haifa”
  • Finnish: “Haifa”
  • Finnish: “Hefa”
  • French: “Haifa”
  • French: “Haïfa”
  • French: “Kaïffa”
  • Galician: “Haifa”
  • Georgian: “ხაიფა”
  • Georgian: “ჰაიფა”
  • German: “Cayphas”
  • German: “Haifa”
  • German: “Ḥaifa”
  • Greek: “Χάιφα”
  • Gujarati: “હૈફા”
  • Hebrew: “H̱efa”
  • Hebrew: “חיפה”
  • Hebrew: “חפה”
  • Hindi: “हाइफ़ा”
  • Hindi: “हैफा”
  • Hindi: “हैफ़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Haifa”
  • Icelandic: “Haifa”
  • Icelandic: “Haífa”
  • Ido: “Haifa”
  • Indonesian: “Haifa”
  • Interlingue: “Haifa”
  • Irish: “Haifa”
  • Italian: “Haifa”
  • Italian: “Hefa”
  • Japanese: “Haifa”
  • Japanese: “ハイファ”
  • Japanese: “ハイフア”
  • Japanese: “ハイファー”
  • Javanese: “Haifa”
  • Kalaallisut: “Haifa”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈಫ”
  • Kashmiri: “حیفا”
  • Kazakh: “Хайфа”
  • Kirghiz: “Хайфа”
  • Korean: “하이파”
  • Ladino: “Haifa”
  • Latin: “Hepha”
  • Latvian: “Haifa”
  • Limburgan: “Haifa”
  • Lithuanian: “Haifa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Haifa”
  • Macedonian: “Хаифа”
  • Malagasy: “Haifa”
  • Malay: “Haifa”
  • Malayalam: “Haifa”
  • Malayalam: “ഹായ്ഫ”
  • Malayalam: “ഹൈഫ”
  • Maltese: “Haifa”
  • Maltese: “Ħajfa”
  • Maltese: “Hayfa”
  • Manx: “Haifa”
  • Marathi: “हैफा”
  • Mingrelian: “ხაიფა”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰაიფა”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰეფა”
  • Moksha: “Хайфа”
  • Mongolian: “Хайфа”
  • Nepali: “हाइफा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Haifa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Haifa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haifa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hefa”
  • Norwegian: “Haifa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aifa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Haifa”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܝܦܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sȳcaminburg”
  • Ossetian: “Хайфæ”
  • Ossetian: “Хайфа”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੈਫਾ”
  • Persian: “حیفا”
  • Polish: “Hajfa”
  • Portuguese: “Haifa”
  • Portuguese: “Hayfa”
  • Portuguese: “Hefa”
  • Pushto: “حيفا”
  • Romanian: “Haifa”
  • Russia Buriat: “Һайфа”
  • Russian: “Хайфа”
  • Samogitian: “Haifa”
  • Sardinian: “Haïfa”
  • Scots: “Haifa”
  • Scots: “חֵיפָה”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Haifa”
  • Serbian: “Хаифа”
  • Serbian: “Хајфа”
  • Serbian: “חיפה”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Haifa”
  • Sicilian: “Haifa”
  • Silesian: “Hajfa”
  • Sinhala: “හයිෆා”
  • Slovak: “Haifa”
  • Slovak: “Hajfa”
  • Slovenian: “Haifa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حیفا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Haifa”
  • Spanish: “Haifa”
  • Swahili: “Haifa”
  • Swedish: “Haifa”
  • Swedish: “Hefa”
  • Swiss German: “Haifa”
  • Tagalog: “Chepa”
  • Tagalog: “Haifa”
  • Tagalog: “Hayfa”
  • Tagalog: “Ḥayfā”
  • Tagalog: “Hefa”
  • Tagalog: “Ḥefa”
  • Tagalog: “Ḥeyfa”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Ḥefa”
  • Tajik: “Ҳайфо”
  • Tamil: “கைஃபா”
  • Tamil: “ஹைபா”
  • Telugu: “హైఫా”
  • Thai: “ไฮฟา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Haifa”
  • Turkish: “Haifa”
  • Turkish: “Hayfa”
  • Ukrainian: “Хайфа”
  • Urdu: “حیفا”
  • Urdu: “حیفہ”
  • Uzbek: “Hayfa”
  • Uzbek: “Xayfa”
  • Venetian: “Haifa”
  • Vietnamese: “Haifa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Haifa”
  • Welsh: “Haifa”
  • Western Panjabi: “حیفا”
  • Wu Chinese: “海法”
  • Yiddish: “חיפה”
  • Yiddish: “חיפֿה”
  • Yue Chinese: “海法”
  • Zeeuws: “Haifa”
  • “Haifa”
  • “Hefa”

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