East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled Old City is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 428,000 residents
- Description: Eastern part of Jerusalem, in dispute between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs since 1967
- Also known as: “Arab Jerusalem”, “Eastern Jerusalem”, and “Jerusalem East”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock.
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically-attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and contains the earliest inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jerusalem and Old City.
Jerusalem
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Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claim it is their capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not.
Old City
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The Old City of Jerusalem is that part of Jerusalem surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.
West Jerusalem
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West Jerusalem represents the modern commercial heart of the city, which was the focus for development in the capital from the time of Israeli independence in 1948 to the reunification of the city with the Six Day War in 1967.
East Jerusalem
- Categories: administrative territorial entity and neighborhood
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“East Jerusalem” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Jeruzalemi Lindor”
- Arabic: “أورشليم الشرقية”
- Arabic: “القدس الشرقية”
- Armenian: “Արևելյան Երուսաղեմ”
- Asturian: “Xerusalén Este”
- Azerbaijani: “Şərqi Qüds”
- Bashkir: “Көнсығыш Иерусалим”
- Basque: “Ekialdeko Jerusalem”
- Belarusian: “Усходні Ерусалім”
- Belarusian: “Усходні Іерусалім”
- Bengali: “পূর্ব জেরুসালেম”
- Bosnian: “Istočni Jerusalem”
- Bulgarian: “Източен Йерусалим”
- Catalan: “Jerusalem Est”
- Cebuano: “East Jerusalem”
- Central Kurdish: “ئورشەلیمی ڕۆژھەڵات”
- Central Kurdish: “قودسی ڕۆژھەڵات”
- Chechen: “Малхбален Къудс-ГӀала”
- Chinese: “东耶路撒冷”
- Chinese: “東耶路撒冷”
- Corsican: “Gerusaleme Este”
- Corsican: “Gerusaleme Estu”
- Croatian: “Istočni Jeruzalem”
- Czech: “Východní Jeruzalém”
- Danish: “Øst-Jerusalem”
- Danish: “Østjerusalem”
- Dimli (individual language): “Urşelimê Rocvetışi”
- Dutch: “Oost-Jeruzalem”
- Dutch: “Oude Stad van Jeruzalem”
- Dutch: “Oude Stad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القدس الشرقيه”
- Esperanto: “Orienta Jerusalemo”
- Estonian: “Ida-Jeruusalemm”
- Finnish: “Itä-Jerusalem”
- French: “capitale de la Palestine”
- French: “Jérusalem-Est”
- French: “troisième ville sainte de l’Islam”
- Galician: “Xerusalén Leste”
- Galician: “Xerusalén Oriental”
- German: “Altjerusalem”
- German: “Ost-Jerusalem”
- German: “Ostjerusalem”
- Greek: “Ανατολική Ιερουσαλήμ”
- Guarani: “Kuarahyresẽ Herusalẽ”
- Hebrew: “ירושלים המזרחית”
- Hebrew: “מזרח ירושלים”
- Hindi: “पूर्व यरुशलम”
- Hungarian: “Kelet-Jeruzsálem”
- Ido: “Estala Yerusalem”
- Indonesian: “Yerusalem Timur”
- Irish: “Iarúsailéim Thoir”
- Italian: “al-Quds”
- Italian: “El Quds”
- Italian: “Gerusalemme araba”
- Italian: “Gerusalemme est”
- Italian: “Gerusalemme Est”
- Japanese: “エルサレム”
- Japanese: “東エルサレム”
- Javanese: “Yerusalem Wétan”
- Kalaallisut: “Østjerusalem”
- Kazakh: “Шығыс Иерусалим”
- Kazakh: “Шығыс Құдыс”
- Korean: “동예루살렘”
- Ladino: “Yerushalayim Oryentala”
- Latvian: “Austrumjeruzaleme”
- Lithuanian: “Rytų Jeruzalė”
- Lombard: “Gerusalem Est”
- Luxembourgish: “Ost-Jerusalem”
- Luxembourgish: “Ostjerusalem”
- Macedonian: “Источен Ерусалим”
- Malagasy: “Jerosalema Atsinanana”
- Malay: “Baitulmaqdis Timur”
- Malay: “Baitulmuqaddis Timur”
- Malayalam: “കിഴക്കൻ ജറൂസലേം”
- Maltese: “Lvant ta‘ Ġerusalemm”
- Moksha: “Шиньстямаширень Йерусалим”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øst-Jerusalem”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aust-Jerusalem”
- Norwegian: “Øst-Jerusalem”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jerusalèm Èst”
- Persian: “اورشلیم شرقی”
- Persian: “بیتالمقدس شرقی”
- Persian: “قدس شرقی”
- Polish: “Wschodnia Jerozolima”
- Portuguese: “Este de Jerusalém”
- Portuguese: “Jerusalém Oriental”
- Pushto: “ختیځ قدس”
- Romanian: “Ierusalimul de est”
- Russian: “Аль-Кудс аш-Шаркия”
- Russian: “Восточный Иерусалим”
- Russian: “Эль-Кудс-эш-Шаркия”
- Sardinian: “Gerusalemme Est”
- Scots: “Aest Jerusalem”
- Scots: “East Jerusalem”
- Serbian: “Источни Јерусалим”
- Sinhala: “Vzhodni Jeruzalem”
- Slovenian: “Vzhodni Jeruzalem”
- Spanish: “Jerusalén Árabe”
- Spanish: “Jerusalen Este”
- Spanish: “Jerusalén Este”
- Spanish: “Jerusalen Oriental”
- Spanish: “Jerusalén Oriental”
- Swahili: “Yerusalemu ya Mashariki”
- Swedish: “Östra Jerusalem”
- Tamil: “கிழக்கு எருசலேம்”
- Thai: “เยรูซาเลมตะวันออก”
- Turkish: “Doğu Kudüs”
- Ukrainian: “Східний Єрусалим”
- Urdu: “مشرقی یروشلم”
- Uzbek: “Sharqiy Quddus”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Jerusalem”
- Welsh: “Dwyrain Caersalem”
- Welsh: “Dwyrain Caerusalem”
- Western Armenian: “Արեւելեան Երուսաղէմ”
- Western Panjabi: “مشرقی یروشلم”
- Yiddish: “מזרח ירושלים”
- Yue Chinese: “東耶路撒冷”
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