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Jericho Governorate

Jericho

Jericho, the "City of Palms", is a small city within the Palestinian Territories close to the northern end of and some 55 km from .
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  • Type: Town with 22,000 residents
  • Description: city in West Bank, Palestine
  • Also known as: “Erīha”, “Moon city”, “Yerīhō”, and “Yirīḩū”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tell es-Sultan and Ain al-Sultan.

Archaeological site
Photo: Fullo88, Public domain.
, also known as Tel Jericho or Ancient Jericho, is an archaeological site and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in , in the city of Jericho, consisting of the remains of the oldest fortified city in the world.

Spring
Ein es-Sultan is a natural spring in Jericho, at the site of ancient Jericho, which has been identified with the tell known as . It is known by Jews and Christians as the Spring of Elisha/Elisha's Spring, based on a biblical story about Prophet Elisha.

Hospital
Photo: Ameen Rammal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jericho Governmental Hospital is a government hospital in the Jericho city, , . Followed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include An-Nuway’imah and Aqbat Jaber.

Suburb
al-Nuway'imah is a Palestinian village in the in the eastern , located five kilometers north of Jericho. It is situated in a low elevation below sea level in the central Jordan Valley.

Village
Photo: Bantosh, Public domain.
Aqabat Jaber is a Palestinian refugee camp in the of the eastern , situated in the Jordan Valley, three kilometers southwest of Jericho.

Village
Photo: James Emery, CC BY 2.0.
ʿEin es-Sulṭān camp, or ʿEin Sultan camp, is a refugee camp in the of the State of Palestine, in the Jordan Valley, in the eastern .

Jericho

Latitude
31.856° or 31° 51′ 22″ north
Longitude
35.4599° or 35° 27′ 36″ east
Population
22,000
Elevation
-233 metres (-764 feet)
Open location code
8G3QVF45+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432335269
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
284899
Wiki­data ID
Q5687
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Jericho” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jericho”
  • Afrikaans: “Jerigo”
  • Amharic: “ኢያሪኮ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἰεριχώ”
  • Arabic: “Arīḩā”
  • Arabic: “أريحا”
  • Arabic: “مدينة القمر”
  • Aragonese: “Chericó”
  • Armenian: “Երիքով”
  • Asturian: “Xericó”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əriha”
  • Basque: “Jeriko”
  • Belarusian: “Ерыхон”
  • Belarusian: “Іерыхон”
  • Bengali: “জেরিকো”
  • Bosnian: “Jerihon”
  • Breton: “Jeriko”
  • Bulgarian: “Йерихон”
  • Catalan: “Jericó”
  • Catalan: “Jèrico”
  • Catalan: “Jericunt”
  • Cebuano: “Jericho”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەریحا”
  • Chechen: “Арихьа”
  • Chinese: “傑里科”
  • Chinese: “埃里哈”
  • Chinese: “杰里科”
  • Chinese: “耶利哥”
  • Chinese: “耶律哥”
  • Chinese: “艾里哈”
  • Chuvash: “Иерихон”
  • Croatian: “Jerihon”
  • Czech: “Jericho”
  • Danish: “Jeriko”
  • Dutch: “Jericho”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اریحا”
  • Esperanto: “Jeriĥo”
  • Estonian: “Jeeriko”
  • Faroese: “Jeriko”
  • Finnish: “Jeriko”
  • French: “Jéricho”
  • Galician: “Xericó”
  • Georgian: “იერიქონი”
  • German: “Jericho”
  • Gothic: “𐌴𐌹𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍉”
  • Gothic: “𐌹𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍉”
  • Greek: “Ιεριχώ”
  • Gujarati: “જેરિકો”
  • Gujarati: “જેરીકો”
  • Hebrew: “ירחו”
  • Hebrew: “יריחו”
  • Hebrew: “עיר התמרים”
  • Hindi: “जेरिको”
  • Hungarian: “Jerikó”
  • Indonesian: “Jericho”
  • Indonesian: “Yerikho”
  • Irish: “Ireachó”
  • Italian: “Gerico”
  • Japanese: “エリコ”
  • Japanese: “海抜マイナス258m”
  • Kalaallisut: “Jericho”
  • Kannada: “ಜೆರಿಕೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಜೆರಿಕೋ”
  • Kashubian: “Jerichò”
  • Korean: “예리코”
  • Kurdish: “Cerîko”
  • Latin: “Hiericus”
  • Latin: “Iericho”
  • Latin: “Ierichus”
  • Latvian: “Jerihona”
  • Latvian: “Jērika”
  • Lithuanian: “Jerichas”
  • Macedonian: “Ерихон”
  • Macedonian: “Јерихон”
  • Malagasy: “Jeriko”
  • Malagasy: “Jerikô”
  • Malay: “Jericho”
  • Maltese: “Ġeriko”
  • Marathi: “जेरिचो”
  • Marathi: “जेरीचो”
  • Mazanderani: “ژریکو”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jeriko”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jeriko”
  • Norwegian: “Jeriko”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jerico”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jericò”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܝܪܝܚܘ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hiericho”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iericho”
  • Ossetian: “Иерихон”
  • Persian: “اریحا”
  • Polish: “Jerycho”
  • Portuguese: “Jericó”
  • Romanian: “Ierihon”
  • Russian: “Иерихон”
  • Rusyn: “Йеріхо”
  • Rusyn: “Йеріхон”
  • Scots: “Jericho”
  • Serbian: “Јерихон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jerihon”
  • Sinhala: “ජෙරිචෝ”
  • Slovak: “Jericho”
  • Slovenian: “Jeriho”
  • Spanish: “Jericó”
  • Spanish: “la ciudad de la luna”
  • Swahili: “Yeriko”
  • Swedish: “Jeriko”
  • Tagalog: “Jerico”
  • Tajik: “Иерихон”
  • Tamil: “எரிக்கோ”
  • Tamil: “ஜெரிக்கோ”
  • Telugu: “జెరికో”
  • Thai: “เมืองเจริโค”
  • Thai: “เยริคโชว์”
  • Thai: “เยรีโค”
  • Turkish: “Eriha”
  • Ukrainian: “Єрихон”
  • Urdu: “اریحا”
  • Uzbek: “Iyerixon”
  • Vietnamese: “Jericho”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jericó”
  • Welsh: “Jericho”
  • Western Panjabi: “اریحا”
  • Wu Chinese: “杰里科”
  • Yiddish: “יריחו”
  • Yue Chinese: “耶利哥”
  • Zeeuws: “Jericho”

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