Karmiel

Karmiel, or Carmiel, is a city in the region of northern . Founded in 1964 as a development town, it is in the Beit HaKerem Valley, the dividing feature between the Lower and .
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  • Type: Town with 53,700 residents
  • Description: capital of Galilee, Israel
  • Also known as: “Carmiel”, “Karmi’el”, and “Qiryat Karmiel”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Karmiel and The Hope.

Railway station
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The railway station is an Israel Railways passenger terminal in , . It is located at the eastern terminus of the Railway to .

Work of art
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is a sculpture by Nicky Imber depicting a woman proudly raising her child to the sky symbolically heralding a new generation. It is named after the Israeli national anthem, "Hatikva" and is part of the Holocaust Memorial Park entitled "From Holocaust to Resurrection", located in Karmiel, Israel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bi’ina and Nahf.

Town
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Bi'ina is an Arab town in the of . It is located east of . In 2003, Bi'ina merged with and to form the city of Shaghur, but was reinstated as a local council in 2008 after Shaghur was dissolved.

Town
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is an Arab town in the Northern District of . It is located in between the and , about 23 kilometres east of . In 2024 it had a population of 13,995.

Village
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is an Arab town located in the Galilee in 's about 16 kilometers east of . Its inhabitants are primarily Muslims. is situated 3½ km west of Karmiel.

Karmiel

Latitude
32.9159° or 32° 54′ 57″ north
Longitude
35.2934° or 35° 17′ 36″ east
Population
53,700
Elevation
314 metres (1,030 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL CML
Open location code
8G4QW78V+99
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278478620
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
294577
Wiki­data ID
Q152418
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Karmiel” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كرمئيل”
  • Arabic: “كرميئيل”
  • Armenian: “Կարմիել”
  • Basque: “Karmiel”
  • Belarusian: “Карміэль”
  • Catalan: “Karmiel”
  • Cebuano: “Karmi’el”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەرمیێل”
  • Chinese: “卡尔米埃勒”
  • Chinese: “卡爾米埃勒”
  • Czech: “Karmiel”
  • Danish: “Karmiel”
  • Dutch: “Karmiël”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كرمئيل”
  • Esperanto: “Karmiel”
  • Finnish: “Karmiel”
  • French: “Karmiel”
  • Georgian: “ქარმიელი”
  • German: “Karmi’el”
  • Greek: “Καρμιέλ”
  • Hebrew: “כרמיאל”
  • Hindi: “कर्मीयल”
  • Hungarian: “Karmiel”
  • Indonesian: “Karmiel”
  • Italian: “Karmiel”
  • Japanese: “カルミエル”
  • Malay: “Karmiel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karmiel”
  • Persian: “کرمیئیل”
  • Polish: “Karmiel”
  • Portuguese: “Carmiel”
  • Romanian: “Karmiel”
  • Russian: “Кармель”
  • Russian: “Кармиель”
  • Russian: “Кармиэль”
  • Scots: “Karmiel”
  • Scots: “כַּרְמִיאֵל”
  • Serbian: “Karmijel”
  • Serbian: “Кармијел”
  • Serbian: “כרמיאל”
  • Spanish: “Carmiel”
  • Spanish: “Karmiel”
  • Swahili: “Karmiel”
  • Swedish: “Karmi’el”
  • Tagalog: “Karmiel”
  • Turkish: “Karmiel”
  • Ukrainian: “Карміель”
  • Urdu: “کرمئیل”
  • Vietnamese: “Karmiel”
  • Yiddish: “כרמיאל”
  • “Carmiel”
  • “Karmi’el”
  • “Karmiel”

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