Jenin
Jenin is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, and is the capital of the Jenin Governorate. 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.
- Type: Town with 49,900 residents
- Description: City in the State of Palestine
- Also known as: “‘Ein Gannīm”, “Cenin, Batı Şeria”, “Djenin”, “Djénine”, “Djinin”, “Dschanin”, “Džanin”, “Džanín”, “Dżenin”, “Engannim”, “Gema”, “Genin”, “Ĝenin”, “Ginai”, “Ginaia”, “Janin”, “Janine”, “Jenín”, “Jenine”, “Jinin”, “Yenin”, “Джанин”, “جنين”, “مدينة جنين”, and “เจนีน”
Places of Interest
Highlights: The Freedom Theatre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jenin Refugee Camp and Burqin.
Burqin
Village
Photo: A abualrob, Public domain.Ash-Shuhada
Village
Ash-Shuhada is a Palestinian village in the… Ash-Shuhada is situated 4 km southwest of Jenin.
Jenin
- Categories: city, Municipality of Palestine type A, and locality
- Location: Jenin Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Jenin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جنين”
- Arabic: “جِنِين”
- Aragonese: “Yenín”
- Asturian: “Jenin”
- Azerbaijani: “Cenin”
- Basque: “Jenin”
- Belarusian: “Джэнін”
- Bengali: “জেনিন”
- Bulgarian: “Дженин”
- Catalan: “Jenin”
- Cebuano: “Janīn”
- Central Kurdish: “جەنین”
- Chechen: “Дженин”
- Chinese: “傑寧”
- Chinese: “哲寧”
- Chinese: “杰宁”
- Chinese: “杰寧”
- Czech: “Dženín”
- Danish: “Jenin”
- Dimli (individual language): “Cenin, Fılıstin”
- Dutch: “Jenin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جنين”
- Esperanto: “Jenin”
- Finnish: “Jenin”
- French: “Jénine”
- Galician: “Xinin”
- German: “Dschenin”
- Greek: “Τζενίν”
- Gujarati: “જેનિન”
- Hebrew: “ג’נין”
- Hebrew: “ג’נין”
- Hebrew: “גנין”
- Hindi: “जनीन”
- Hindi: “जेनिन”
- Iban: “Jenin”
- Indonesian: “Jenin”
- 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”
- Portuguese: “Jenim”
- Portuguese: “Jenin”
- Romanian: “Jenin”
- Russian: “Дженин”
- Scots: “Jenin”
- Serbian: “Џенин”
- Sinhala: “ජෙනින්”
- Slovenian: “Dženin”
- Spanish: “Yenín”
- Swedish: “Jenin”
- Tamil: “ஜெனின்”
- Telugu: “జెనిన్”
- Thai: “ญินีน”
- Turkish: “Cenin, Filistin”
- Ukrainian: “Джанін”
- Ukrainian: “Дженін”
- Urdu: “جنین، مغربی کنارہ”
- Vietnamese: “Jenin”
- Welsh: “Jenin”
- Western Panjabi: “جنین”
- Zeeuws: “Jenin”
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