East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.
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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: “Aest Jerusalem”, “al-Quds”, “Altjerusalem”, “Arab Jerusalem”, “capitale de la Palestine”, “Dwyrain Caerusalem”, “Eastern Jerusalem”, “El Quds”, “Este de Jerusalém”, “Gerusaleme Estu”, “Gerusalemme araba”, “Jerusalem East”, “Jerusalén Árabe”, “Jerusalen Este”, “Jerusalen Oriental”, “Jerusalén Oriental”, “Ost-Jerusalem”, “Oude Stad”, “Oude Stad van Jeruzalem”, “troisième ville sainte de l’Islam”, “Xerusalén Oriental”, “Аль-Кудс аш-Шаркия”, “Шығыс Құдыс”, “Эль-Кудс-эш-Шаркия”, “ירושלים המזרחית”, “أورشليم الشرقية”, and “قودسی ڕۆژھەڵات”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Dome of the Rock and Dome of the Rock.

Mosque
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The is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the in the . 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.

Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque, is the main congregational mosque or in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of .

Church
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The , also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the of the of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jerusalem and Old City.

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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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The of Jerusalem is that part of surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.

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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

Latitude
31.78336° or 31° 47′ 0″ north
Longitude
35.23388° or 35° 14′ 2″ east
Population
428,000
Elevation
759 metres (2,490 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ6MM+8H
Geo­Names ID
7303419
Wiki­data ID
Q212938
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“East Jerusalem” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Jeruzalemi Lindor”
  • 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”
  • Chechen: “Малхбален Къудс-ГӀала”
  • Chinese: “东耶路撒冷”
  • Chinese: “東耶路撒冷”
  • Corsican: “Gerusaleme Este”
  • Croatian: “Istočni Jeruzalem”
  • Czech: “Východní Jeruzalém”
  • Danish: “Østjerusalem”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Urşelimê Rocvetışi”
  • Dutch: “Oost-Jeruzalem”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “القدس الشرقيه”
  • Esperanto: “Orienta Jerusalemo”
  • Estonian: “Ida-Jeruusalemm”
  • Finnish: “Itä-Jerusalem”
  • French: “Jérusalem-Est”
  • Galician: “Xerusalén Leste”
  • German: “Ostjerusalem”
  • Greek: “Ανατολική Ιερουσαλήμ”
  • Guarani: “Kuarahyresẽ Herusalẽ”
  • Hebrew: “מזרח ירושלים”
  • Hindi: “पूर्व यरुशलम”
  • Hungarian: “Kelet-Jeruzsálem”
  • Iban: “Jerusalem Timur”
  • Ido: “Estala Yerusalem”
  • Indonesian: “Yerusalem Timur”
  • Irish: “Iarúsailéim Thoir”
  • 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”
  • Korean: “동예루살렘”
  • Ladino: “Yerushalayim Oryentala”
  • Latvian: “Austrumjeruzaleme”
  • Lithuanian: “Rytų Jeruzalė”
  • Lombard: “Gerusalem Est”
  • 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: “Jerusalém Oriental”
  • Pushto: “ختیځ قدس”
  • Romanian: “Ierusalimul de est”
  • Romanian: “Ierusalimul de Est”
  • Russian: “Восточный Иерусалим”
  • Sardinian: “Gerusalemme Est”
  • Scots: “East Jerusalem”
  • Serbian: “Источни Јерусалим”
  • Sinhala: “Vzhodni Jeruzalem”
  • Slovak: “Východný Jeruzalem”
  • Slovenian: “Vzhodni Jeruzalem”
  • Spanish: “Jerusalén Este”
  • 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”
  • Western Armenian: “Արեւելեան Երուսաղէմ”
  • Western Panjabi: “مشرقی یروشلم”
  • Yiddish: “מזרח ירושלים”
  • Yue Chinese: “東耶路撒冷”

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