Karmiel
Karmiel, or Carmiel, is a city in the Lower Galilee region of northern Israel. Founded in 1964 as a development town, it is in the Beit HaKerem Valley, the dividing feature between the Lower and Upper Galilee.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Town with 53,700 residents
- Description: capital of Galilee, Israel
- Also known as: “Carmiel”, “Karmi’el”, “Qiryat Karmiel”, “Кармель”, “Кармиель”, and “כַּרְמִיאֵל”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Karmiel and The Hope.
Karmiel
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bi’ina and Nahf.
Majd al-Krum
Village
Photo: Al Ameer son, Public domain.Karmiel
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Northern District, Lower Galilee, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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)
UN/LOCODE
IL CML
Open location code
8G4QW78V+99
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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: “Кармиэль”
- Scots: “Karmiel”
- Serbian: “Karmijel”
- Serbian: “Кармијел”
- Spanish: “Carmiel”
- Spanish: “Karmiel”
- Swahili: “Karmiel”
- Swedish: “Karmi’el”
- Tagalog: “Karmiel”
- Turkish: “Karmiel”
- Ukrainian: “Карміель”
- Urdu: “کرمئیل”
- Vietnamese: “Karmiel”
- Yiddish: “כרמיאל”
- “Karmiel”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Sagi and Western Quarter.
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