Jenin

Jenin is a city in the , , and is the capital of the . It is a hub for the surrounding towns. Jenin came under Israeli occupation in 1967, and was put under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority as Area A of the West Bank, a Palestinian enclave, in 1995.
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  • Type: Town with 49,900 residents
  • Description: City in the State of Palestine
  • Also known as: “‘Ein Gannīm”, “Engannim”, “Gema”, “Ginai”, “Ginaia”, “Janin”, “Janine”, “Jenine”, “Jinin”, and “جنين”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include The Freedom Theatre.

Theater building
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is a community-based theatre and cultural center in the , in Jenin, in the northern part of the , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jenin Refugee Camp and Burqin.

Town
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The , also known as the Jenin camp, is a town originally founded in 1953 as a Palestinian refugee camp located within the city of Jenin in the northern .

Village
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is a Palestinian town in the northern located 5 km west of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics census, its population was 5,685 in 2007 and 7,126 in 2017. is situated 3½ km west of Jenin.

Village
is a Palestinian village in the of , located 5 km southwest of the city of Jenin, in the northern . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,738 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,299 by 2017. is situated 4 km southwest of Jenin.

Jenin

Latitude
32.4619° or 32° 27′ 43″ north
Longitude
35.2976° or 35° 17′ 51″ east
Population
49,900
Elevation
161 metres (528 feet)
Open location code
8G4QF76X+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 300254767
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
283506
Wiki­data ID
Q374748
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Jenin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جنين”
  • Arabic: “جِنِين”
  • Arabic: “مدينة جنين”
  • Aragonese: “Yenín”
  • Asturian: “Jenin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cenin”
  • Basque: “Jenin”
  • Belarusian: “Джэнін”
  • Bengali: “জেনিন”
  • Bulgarian: “Дженин”
  • Catalan: “Djinin”
  • Catalan: “Jenin”
  • Cebuano: “Janīn”
  • Central Kurdish: “جەنین”
  • Chechen: “Дженин”
  • Chinese: “傑寧”
  • Chinese: “哲寧”
  • Chinese: “杰宁”
  • Chinese: “杰寧”
  • Czech: “Džanin”
  • Czech: “Džanín”
  • Czech: “Dženin”
  • Czech: “Dženín”
  • Czech: “Jenin”
  • Danish: “Jenin”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cenin, Fılıstin”
  • Dutch: “Jenin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جنين”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝenin”
  • Esperanto: “Jenin”
  • Finnish: “Jenin”
  • French: “Djénine”
  • French: “Jenine”
  • French: “Jénine”
  • Galician: “Jenin”
  • Galician: “Xinin”
  • German: “Djenin”
  • German: “Dschanin”
  • German: “Dschenin”
  • German: “Jenin”
  • Greek: “Τζενίν”
  • Gujarati: “જેનિન”
  • Hebrew: “ג’נין”
  • Hebrew: “ג’נין‎”
  • Hebrew: “גנין”
  • Hindi: “जनीन”
  • Hindi: “जेनिन”
  • Iban: “Jenin”
  • Indonesian: “Jenin”
  • Italian: “Genin”
  • Italian: “Jenin”
  • Japanese: “ジェニーン”
  • Japanese: “ジェニン”
  • Kannada: “ಜೆನಿನ್”
  • Korean: “제닌”
  • Kurdish: “Cenîn”
  • Latvian: “Dženīna”
  • Lithuanian: “Dženinas”
  • Macedonian: “Џенин”
  • Malay: “Jenin”
  • Malay: “جنين”
  • Malayalam: “ജെനിൻ”
  • Marathi: “जेनिन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jenin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jenin”
  • Norwegian: “Jenin”
  • Ossetian: “Дженин”
  • Persian: “جنین”
  • Polish: “Dżanin”
  • Polish: “Dżenin”
  • Portuguese: “Jenim”
  • Portuguese: “Jenin”
  • Romanian: “Jenin”
  • Russian: “Джанин”
  • Russian: “Дженин”
  • Scots: “Jenin”
  • Serbian: “Џенин”
  • Sinhala: “ජෙනින්”
  • Slovenian: “Dženin”
  • Spanish: “Jenin”
  • Spanish: “Jenín”
  • Spanish: “Yenin”
  • Spanish: “Yenín”
  • Swedish: “Jenin”
  • Tamil: “ஜெனின்”
  • Telugu: “జెనిన్”
  • Thai: “เจนีน”
  • Thai: “ญินีน”
  • Turkish: “Cenin, Batı Şeria”
  • Turkish: “Cenin, Filistin”
  • Ukrainian: “Джанін”
  • Ukrainian: “Дженін”
  • Urdu: “جنین، مغربی کنارہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Jenin”
  • Welsh: “Jenin”
  • Western Panjabi: “جنین”
  • Zeeuws: “Jenin”

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