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Holy Land

The Holy Land Latin: Terra Sancta, Arabic: الأرض المقدسة al-Arḍ ul-Muqaddasah;) or Holy Lands is a generic term that usually refers to one or more countries in the , specifically the , that witnessed the origins and early history of three of the world's great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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Holy Land

Latitude of center
30.89° or 30° 53′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
34.87° or 34° 52′ 12″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q48175
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Holy Land” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Heilige Land”
  • Albanian: “Toka e Shenjtë”
  • Arabic: “الأراضي المقدسة”
  • Arabic: “الأرض المقدسة”
  • Arabic: “الديار المقدسة”
  • Arabic: “الديار”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Երկիր”
  • Asturian: “Tierra Santa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs torpaqlar”
  • Basque: “Lur Santua”
  • Basque: “Lur Santuak”
  • Basque: “Lurralde Santua”
  • Basque: “Lurralde Santuak”
  • Belarusian: “Святая зямля”
  • Bengali: “পবিত্র ভূমি”
  • Breton: “Douar Santel”
  • Bulgarian: “Свети земи”
  • Bulgarian: “Светите земи”
  • Bulgarian: “Светите места”
  • Catalan: “Terra Santa”
  • Central Kurdish: “ארץ הקודש”
  • Central Kurdish: “خاکی پیرۆز”
  • Chinese: “圣土”
  • Chinese: “聖地 (亞洲)”
  • Chinese: “聖地 (巴勒斯坦)”
  • Chinese: “聖地”
  • Chuvash: “Сăваплă çĕр”
  • Chuvash: “Таса çĕр”
  • Croatian: “Sveta Zemlja”
  • Czech: “Svatá země”
  • Czech: “Země zaslíbená”
  • Danish: “Det hellige land”
  • Danish: “Hellige land”
  • Danish: “Outremer”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Herrê firazi”
  • Dutch: “Heilig Land”
  • Dutch: “Heilige Land”
  • Dutch: “Het Heilige Land”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الارض المقدسه”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Lando”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Tero”
  • Estonian: “Püha maa”
  • Finnish: “pyhä maa”
  • Finnish: “Pyhä maa”
  • French: “Agioi Topoi”
  • French: “Terra Sancta”
  • French: “Terre sainte”
  • French: “Terre-sainte”
  • Galician: “Terra Santa”
  • Georgian: “წმინდა მიწა”
  • German: “Heiliges Land”
  • German: “Verheißenes Land”
  • Greek: “Άγιοι Τόποι”
  • Hausa: “Ƙasa mai Tsarki”
  • Hebrew: “ארץ הקודש”
  • Hebrew: “קדושת ארץ ישראל”
  • Hindi: “पवित्र भूमि”
  • Hungarian: “Szentföld”
  • Icelandic: “Landið helga”
  • Indonesian: “Tanah Suci”
  • Irish: “An Talamh Naofa”
  • Italian: “Luoghi Santi”
  • Italian: “Terra santa”
  • Italian: “Terra Santa”
  • Italian: “Terrasanta”
  • Japanese: “聖なる国”
  • Japanese: “聖地”
  • Japanese: “聖都”
  • Korean: “거룩한 땅”
  • Latvian: “Svētā vieta”
  • Latvian: “Svētā zeme”
  • Lithuanian: “Šventoji žemė”
  • Lombard: “Terra Santa”
  • Low German: “Hillig Land”
  • Macedonian: “Света земја”
  • Macedonian: “Света Земја”
  • Malagasy: “Tany Masina”
  • Malay: “Tanah Suci”
  • Mazanderani: “تررا سانتا”
  • Minangkabau: “Tanah Suci”
  • Nias: “Tanö Amabu’ula”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det hellige land”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det Hellige Landet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hellige land”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hellige Landet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det heilage landet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hellige land”
  • Norwegian: “Det hellige land”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tèrra Santa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hālig Land”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Halige Land”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hālige Land”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Palestine”
  • Persian: “ارض اقدس”
  • Persian: “سرزمین مقدس”
  • Picard: “Sainte Tière”
  • Polish: “Ziemia Święta”
  • Portuguese: “Terra Sagrada”
  • Portuguese: “Terra Santa”
  • Portuguese: “Terra-Santa”
  • Romanian: “Țara Sfântă”
  • Romanian: “Terra Sancta”
  • Russian: “Святая земля”
  • Russian: “Святая Земля”
  • Russian: “מקומות קדושים”
  • Rusyn: “Свята земля”
  • Serbian: “Света земља”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sveta zemlja”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sveta Zemlja”
  • Sicilian: “Terra Santa”
  • Slovak: “Svätá zem”
  • Slovak: “Zasľúbená zem”
  • Slovenian: “Sveta dežela”
  • Spanish: “Santos lugares”
  • Spanish: “Tierra Santa”
  • Swahili: “Nchi takatifu”
  • Swedish: “Det förlovade landet”
  • Swedish: “Det heliga landet”
  • Swedish: “Heliga landet”
  • Swiss German: “S Häilige Land”
  • Tamil: “திருநாடு”
  • Tamil: “புண்ணிய பூமி”
  • Tamil: “விவிலியத் திருநாடு”
  • Thai: “Holy Land”
  • Thai: “ดินแดนศักดิ์สิทธิ์”
  • Thai: “ดินแดนอันศักดิ์สิทธิ์”
  • Thai: “แผ่นดินศักดิ์สิทธิ์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Heiliges Land”
  • Turkish: “Kutsal Topraklar”
  • Ukrainian: “Свята земля”
  • Urdu: “ارض مقدسہ”
  • Urdu: “ارضِ مقدسہ”
  • Urdu: “دیار مقدسہ”
  • Urdu: “دیارِ مقدسہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Đất Thánh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baraan nga Katunaan”
  • Welsh: “y Wlad Sanctaidd”
  • Welsh: “Y Wlad Sanctaidd”
  • Western Panjabi: “ارض مقدسہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣地 (地区)”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣地（地区）”
  • Yakut: “Сибэтиэй сир”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖地”

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