Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claims it as its capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Old City and East Jerusalem.
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The of Jerusalem is that part of Jerusalem…
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is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Israel Museum and The National Library.
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Museum
The is an art and archaeology museum in Jerusalem.
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Library
of Israel, formerly Jewish…
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Mosque
The is an octagonal Islamic shrine…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Jerusalem and Haredi.
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represents the modern commercial heart…
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or Chareidi Jerusalem refers to the parts…
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is a secluded village suburb on the outskirts of West Jerusalem.

Jerusalem

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Latitude
31.7788° or 31° 46′ 44″ north
Longitude
35.2258° or 35° 13′ 33″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6HG+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29090735
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
281184
Wiki­data ID
Q1218

Satellite Map

Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Jerusalem” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Al-Quds”
  • Afrikaans: “Jerusalem”
  • Akkadian: “Urušalim”
  • Albanian: “Jerusalemi”
  • Albanian: “Jeruzalemi”
  • Amharic: “እየሩሳሌም”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Hierosolyma”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Hierousalēm”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αριηλ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ιεβους”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἱεροσόλυμα”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἱερουσαλήμ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μωριας”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σαλημ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σιων”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σολυμα”
  • Angika: “येरुशलम”
  • Arabic: “أورسالم”
  • Arabic: “أورشليم القدس”
  • Arabic: “أُورشَليم”
  • Arabic: “أولى القبلتين”
  • Arabic: “إيلياء”
  • Arabic: “اريئيل”
  • Arabic: “البلا”
  • Arabic: “القدس الشريف”
  • Arabic: “القُدْس”
  • Arabic: “بيت المقدس”
  • Arabic: “ساليم”
  • Arabic: “صهيون”
  • Arabic: “لقدس”
  • Arabic: “مدينة القدس”
  • Arabic: “مريّا”
  • Arabic: “ورشليم”
  • Arabic: “يبوس”
  • Aragonese: “Cherusalem”
  • Armenian: “Երուսաղեմ”
  • Assamese: “জেৰুজালেম”
  • Asturian: “Xerusalén”
  • Avaric: “Байтул Макъдис”
  • Awadhi: “जेरुशलम”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Qüds”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qüds”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yeruşalayim”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yerusəlim”
  • Balinese: “Yerusalem”
  • Bambara: “Jerusalem”
  • Banjar: “Baitul Maqdis”
  • Bashkir: “Иерусалим”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡодос”
  • Basque: “Jerusalem”
  • Bavarian: “Jerusalem”
  • Belarusian: “Еерусалім”
  • Belarusian: “Ерузалем”
  • Belarusian: “Ерусалім”
  • Belarusian: “Іерусалім”
  • Bengali: “আল-কুদস”
  • Bengali: “জেরুসালেম”
  • Bengali: “যিরূশালেম”
  • Betawi: “Bétulmegedis”
  • Bhojpuri: “जेरूसलम”
  • Bosnian: “Jerusalem”
  • Bosnian: “Jerusalim”
  • Bosnian: “Jeruzalem”
  • Breton: “Jeruzalem”
  • Bulgarian: “Ерусалим”
  • Bulgarian: “Йерусалим”
  • Burmese: “ဂျေရုဆလင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Jerusalem”
  • Cebuano: “Herusalen”
  • Cebuano: “Jerusalen”
  • Cebuano: “Kodz”
  • Central Bikol: “Herusalem”
  • Central Kanuri: “Jerusalem”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئورشەلیم”
  • Chamorro: “Jerusalem”
  • Chavacano: “Jerusalem”
  • Chavacano: “Jerusalén”
  • Chechen: “Къудс-ГӀала”
  • Cherokee: “ᏥᎷᏏᎳᎻ”
  • Chinese: “以色列的首都”
  • Chinese: “耶路撒冷”
  • Church Slavic: “Иѥръісалимъ”
  • Church Slavic: “Їєроусалимъ”
  • Chuvash: “Иерусалим”
  • Chuvash: “Мĕрселин”
  • Cornish: “Jerusalem”
  • Cornish: “Yerusalem”
  • Corsican: “Gerusaleme”
  • Corsican: “Ghjerusaleme”
  • Cree: “ᒉᕒᐅᓴᓬᐊᒼ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Qudus”
  • Croatian: “Jeruzalem”
  • Czech: “Jerusalém”
  • Czech: “Jeruzalém”
  • Dagbani: “Jerusalem”
  • Danish: “Davids By”
  • Danish: “Den Gyldne Stad”
  • Danish: “Fredens By”
  • Danish: “Jerusalem”
  • Danish: “Zions Stad”
  • Dhivehi: “އޫރުޝަލީމް”
  • Dhivehi: “ޤުދުސް”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Urşelim”
  • Dotyali: “जेरुशलम”
  • Dutch: “Jeruzalem”
  • Eastern Mari: “Иерусалим”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “القدس”
  • Erzya: “Иерусалим”
  • Esperanto: “Jeruŝalajim”
  • Esperanto: “Jerusalemo”
  • Esperanto: “Urŝalim al-Quds”
  • Estonian: “Jeruusalemm”
  • Extremaduran: “Jerusalén”
  • Faroese: “Jerúsalem”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Jerusalem”
  • Fijian: “Jerusalemi”
  • Finnish: “Jerusalem”
  • French: “Al Quds”
  • French: “Hiérosolyme”
  • French: “Jérusalem”
  • French: “Salem”
  • French: “Solyme”
  • French: “ville sainte”
  • French: “ville trois fois sainte”
  • French: “Yerushaláyim”
  • Friulian: “Jerusalem”
  • Ga: “Jerusalem”
  • Galician: “Xerusalén”
  • Gan Chinese: “耶路撒冷”
  • Georgian: “იერუსალიმი”
  • German: “Al-Quds”
  • German: “Jerusalem”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Jerusalem”
  • Gothic: “Iairusalem”
  • Gothic: “Iairusaulwma”
  • Gothic: “𐌹𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌼”
  • Gothic: “𐌹𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍅𐌼𐌰/Iairusaulwma”
  • Gothic: “𐌹𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍅𐌼𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ιεροσόλυμα”
  • Greek: “Ιερουσαλήμ”
  • Guarani: “Herusalẽ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Jérusalem”
  • Gujarati: “જેરુસલેમ”
  • Haitian: “Jerizalèm”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yâ-lu-sat-lâng”
  • Hausa: “Jerusalem”
  • Hausa: “Kudus”
  • Hawaiian: “Ielukalema”
  • Hebrew: “אֵילִיָּה קַפִּיטוֹלִינָה”
  • Hebrew: “אריאל”
  • Hebrew: “הַקֹּדֶשׁ”
  • Hebrew: “הר המוריה”
  • Hebrew: “י-ם”
  • Hebrew: “יְבוּס”
  • Hebrew: “יְרוּשָׁלַיִם”
  • Hebrew: “יְרוּשָׁלָםִ”
  • Hebrew: “מוֹרִיָּה”
  • Hebrew: “עיר הקודש”
  • Hebrew: “צִיּוֹן”
  • Hebrew: “שָׁלֵם”
  • Hiligaynon: “Herusalem”
  • Hindi: “अल कुद्स”
  • Hindi: “जेरूसैलम”
  • Hindi: “येरुशलम”
  • Hindi: “येरूसलम”
  • Hungarian: “Jeruzsálem”
  • Iban: “Jerusalem”
  • Icelandic: “Jerúsalem”
  • Ido: “Ierusalem”
  • Igbo: “Jerusalem”
  • Iloko: “Herusalem”
  • Inari Sami: “Jerusalem”
  • Indonesian: “Aelia Capitolina”
  • Indonesian: “Yerusalem”
  • Ingush: “Байтулмакъдис”
  • Interlingua: “Jerusalem”
  • Interlingue: “Jerusalem”
  • Irish: “Iarúsailéim”
  • Italian: “Gerusalemme”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Jiruusalem”
  • Japanese: “アル＝クズ”
  • Japanese: “アル＝クドゥス”
  • Japanese: “エルサレム”
  • Javanese: “Yérusalem”
  • Jèrriais: “Jérusalem”
  • Jèrriais: “Jérusalème”
  • Kabardian: “Къудс Къалэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Jeruzalɛm”
  • Kabyle: “Orcalim”
  • Kabyle: “Uṛacalim”
  • Kabyle: “Urcalim”
  • Kalaallisut: “Jerusalem”
  • Kannada: “ಜೆರುಸಲೆಂ”
  • Kannada: “ಜೆರುಸಲೇಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Al-Qudıs”
  • Kashmiri: “القُدس”
  • Kashmiri: “یروشلم”
  • Kashubian: “Jerozolëma”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Құдыс”
  • Kazakh: “Иерусалим”
  • Khmer: “ເຢ​ຣູ​ຊາ​ເລັມ”
  • Khmer: “យេរូសាឡឹម”
  • Kikuyu: “Jerusalem”
  • Kinaray-A: “ang Kudz”
  • Kinaray-A: “Herusalen”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Yerusalemu”
  • Kirghiz: “Иерусалим”
  • Kirghiz: “Кудус”
  • Komering: “Yerussalem”
  • Komi: “Иерусалим”
  • Korean: “꾸드스”
  • Korean: “알쿠드스”
  • Korean: “예루살렘”
  • Korean: “예루샬라임”
  • Kurdish: “Orşelîm”
  • Kurdish: “Quds”
  • Ladin: “Ierusalem”
  • Ladino: “Yerushalayim”
  • Lao: “ເຢ​ຣູ​ຊາ​ເລັມ”
  • Latin: “Aelia Capitolina”
  • Latin: “Colonia Aelia Capitolina”
  • Latin: “Hierosolyma”
  • Latin: “Hierusalem”
  • Latin: “Iebus”
  • Latin: “Moria”
  • Latin: “Salem”
  • Latin: “Sion”
  • Latvian: “Jeruzaleme”
  • Lezghian: “Иерусалим”
  • Lezghian: “Ярусалим”
  • Ligurian: “Gerusalemme”
  • Limburgan: “Jeruzalem”
  • Lingala: “Yerusalémi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Ieruxalim”
  • Literary Chinese: “耶路撒冷”
  • Lithuanian: “al Kudsas”
  • Lithuanian: “Jeruzalė”
  • Livvi: “Jerusalimu”
  • Lombard: “Gerüsalem”
  • Low German: “Jerusalem”
  • Low German: “Jeruzalem”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Jeruzalem”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jerusalem”
  • Macedonian: “Ерусалим”
  • Magahi: “जेरुसेलम”
  • Magahi: “येरुसेलम”
  • Maithili: “जेरुसेलम”
  • Malagasy: “Jerosalema”
  • Malagasy: “Jerusalem”
  • Malay: “Baitulmakdis”
  • Malay: “Baitulmaqdis”
  • Malay: “Baitulmuqaddis”
  • Malay: “Yerusalem”
  • Malay: “بيت المقدس”
  • Malayalam: “ജെറുസലേം”
  • Maltese: “Ġerusalemm”
  • Manx: “Jerusalem”
  • Maori: “Hiruhārama”
  • Marathi: “अल कुद्स”
  • Marathi: “जेरुसलेम”
  • Mazanderani: “اورشلیم القدس”
  • Mazanderani: “اورشلیم”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “القدس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ià-lô-sák-lēng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iâ-lō͘-sat-léng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yerushaláyim”
  • Minangkabau: “Yerusalem”
  • Mingrelian: “იერუსალიმი”
  • Mirandese: “Jarusalen”
  • Moksha: “Ерусалим”
  • Mongolian: “Иерусалим”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لقدس”
  • Neapolitan: “Gerusalemme”
  • Neapolitan: “Gierusalemme”
  • Nepali: “जेरुसेलम”
  • Newari: “जेरुसालेम”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Jerusalem”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jerusalem”
  • Northern Luri: “ئوٙرشألیم”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jerusalem”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jorsal”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jerusalem”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jorsal”
  • Norwegian: “Jerusalem”
  • Novial: “Jerusalem”
  • Nyanja: “Jerusalem”
  • Obolo: “Jeruselem”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jerusalèm”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “יְרוּשְׁלֶם”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܪܫܠܡ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ierusalem”
  • Old Norse: “Jorsala”
  • Old Norse: “Jórsalaborg”
  • Old Norse: “Jórsalir”
  • Oriya: “ଜେରୁଜେଲମ”
  • Oriya: “ଜେରୁସାଲେମ”
  • Ossetian: “Иерусалим”
  • Pampanga: “Herusalin”
  • Pampanga: “ing Kudz”
  • Pampanga: “Yerusialáim”
  • Panjabi: “ਜੇਰੂਸਲਮ”
  • Papiamento: “Herusalem”
  • Persian: “اورسلیمان”
  • Persian: “اورشلیم”
  • Persian: “بَیْت‌المُقدَّس”
  • Persian: “قُدس”
  • Picard: “Jérusalem”
  • Piemontese: “Gerusalem”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Jerusalem”
  • Polish: “Al-Kuds”
  • Polish: “Jerozolima”
  • Polish: “Jeruzalem”
  • Pontic: “Ιερουσαλήμ”
  • Portuguese: “Aelia Capitolina”
  • Portuguese: “J’lem”
  • Portuguese: “Jerusalém, Oriente Médio”
  • Portuguese: “Jerusalém”
  • Pushto: “بيت المقدس”
  • Quechua: “Hirusalim”
  • Quechua: “Yerushalayim”
  • Romanian: “Ierusalim”
  • Romansh: “Jerusalem”
  • Rundi: “Jerusalem”
  • Russia Buriat: “Иерусалим”
  • Russian: “аль-К̣удс”
  • Russian: “Иерусалим”
  • Russian: “Йерушала”
  • Russian: “Уршалим-аль-К̣удс”
  • Russian: “Уршалим”
  • Rusyn: “Єрусалим”
  • Sakizaya: “Ey-lu-sa-len”
  • Samoan: “Ierusalema”
  • Samogitian: “Jerozalė”
  • Santali: “ᱡᱮᱨᱩᱥᱟᱞᱤᱢ”
  • Sardinian: “Gerusalemme”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Jerusalem”
  • Scots: “al-Quds”
  • Scots: “Jerusalem”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ierusalem”
  • Serbian: “Јерусалим”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jeruzalem”
  • Shona: “Jerusalem”
  • Shona: “Jerusarema”
  • Sicilian: “Girusalemmi”
  • Silesian: “Jerozolima”
  • Sindhi: “بيت المقدس”
  • Sindhi: “يروشلم”
  • Sinhala: “ජෙරුසෙලම”
  • Slovak: “Jeruzalem”
  • Slovenian: “Jeruzalem”
  • Somali: “Qudus”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیت‌المقدس”
  • Spanish: “Al Quds”
  • Spanish: “Jerusalén”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Jerusalem”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⵇⵓⴷⵙ”
  • Sundanese: “Yérusalém”
  • Sundanese: “ᮚᮦᮛᮥᮞᮜᮦᮙ᮪”
  • Swahili: “Aelia Capitolina”
  • Swahili: “J’lem”
  • Swahili: “Yerusalemu”
  • Swedish: “Jerusalem”
  • Swiss German: “Jerusalem”
  • Sylheti: “ꠄꠞꠥꠡꠣꠟꠦꠝ”
  • Syriac: “ܐܘܪܫܠܡ”
  • Syriac: “ܨܗܝܘܢ”
  • Tagalog: “Herusalem”
  • Tagalog: “Jerusalem”
  • Tajik: “Иерусалим”
  • Tajik: “Уршалим”
  • Talysh: “Ǧuds”
  • Talysh: “Quds”
  • Tamil: “எருசலேம்”
  • Tatar: “Иерусалим”
  • Tatar: “Котдус”
  • Tatar: “Үршәлим”
  • Telugu: “జెరూసలేం”
  • Thai: “เยรูซาเลม”
  • Tibetan: “ཇེ་རུ་ས་ལེམ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Yerusalem”
  • Tumbuka: “Jerusalem”
  • Turkish: “Kudüs”
  • Turkish: “Yeruşalayim”
  • Turkish: “Yeruşalim”
  • Turkmen: “Iýerusalim”
  • Turkmen: “Kudus”
  • Twi: “Jerusalem”
  • Twi: “Yerusalem”
  • Tyap: “Urusha̱lima”
  • Udmurt: “Иерусалим”
  • Uighur: “قۇددۇس”
  • Uighur: “قۇدس”
  • Uighur: “يېرۇسالېم”
  • Ukrainian: “Єрусалим”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Jeruzalem”
  • Urdu: “القدس”
  • Urdu: “بیت المقدس”
  • Urdu: “قدس”
  • Urdu: “یروشلم”
  • Uzbek: “Quddus”
  • Venetian: “Hierusalem”
  • Venetian: “Jeruzałeme”
  • Veps: “Jerusalim”
  • Vietnamese: “Giê-ru-sa-lem”
  • Vietnamese: “Jerusalem”
  • Vlax Romani: “Jerusalem”
  • Volapük: “Hierusalem”
  • Võro: “Jeruusalemm”
  • Walloon: “Djeruzalem”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jerusalem”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jerusalén”
  • Welsh: “Caersalem”
  • Welsh: “Jeriwsalem”
  • Welsh: “Jerwsalem”
  • Western Armenian: “Երուսաղէմ”
  • Western Frisian: “Jeruzalim”
  • Western Panjabi: “القدس”
  • Western Panjabi: “یروشلم”
  • Wolof: “Jerusalem”
  • Wu Chinese: “耶路撒冷”
  • Xhosa: “IJerusalem”
  • Yakut: “Иерусалим”
  • Yiddish: “ירושלים”
  • Yoruba: “Jerúsálẹ́mù”
  • Yue Chinese: “耶路撒冷”
  • Zeeuws: “Jeruzalem”
  • Zulu: “IYerusalem”
  • “ma tomo Jekusalawin”
  • “ma tomo Jelusalawin”
  • “ma tomo Jelusalen”
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