Lod
Lod, also known as Lydda and Lidd, is a city 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv and 40 km northwest of Jerusalem in the Central District of Israel. It is situated between the lower Shephelah on the east and the coastal plain on the west.
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- Type: Town with 77,200 residents
- Description: city in Israel
- Also known as: “al-Ludd”, “Diospolis-Lydda”, “Lidd”, “Lod, Israel”, “Lot”, “Lūd”, “Lydda”, and “Mint of Diospolis-Lydda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lod and Church of Saint George.
Lod
Railway station
Church of Saint George
Church
The Church of Saint George is a Greek Orthodox church, located in the city of Lod, Israel. The church contains a sarcophagus venerated as the tomb of the fourth-century Christian martyr Saint George.
Ayalon Prison
Prison
Ayalon Prison, formerly known as Ramla Prison, is a maximum-security prison located in Ramla, Israel. It is managed by the Israel Prison Service. The prison was opened in 1950, and was built in the style of the Tegart forts from the British Mandate era.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ramla and Ahisamakh.
Ramla
Ahisamakh
Village
Nir Tzvi
Village
Lod
- Categories: city, depopulated Palestinian village, and locality
- Location: Central District, Israeli Coastal Plain, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.9489° or 31° 56′ 56″ north
Longitude
34.8885° or 34° 53′ 19″ east
Population
77,200
Elevation
68 metres (223 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL LOD
Open location code
8G3PWVXQ+H9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Lod from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Lod” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lod”
- Arabic: “Lod”
- Arabic: “اللد”
- Arabic: “لد”
- Arabic: “لدّ”
- Armenian: “Լոդ (Իսրայել)”
- Armenian: “Լոդ”
- Asturian: “Lod”
- Azerbaijani: “Lod”
- Belarusian: “Лод”
- Bengali: “লুদ শহর”
- Catalan: “Lod”
- Catalan: “Lodd”
- Catalan: “Ludd”
- Catalan: “Lydda”
- Cebuano: “Lod”
- Central Kurdish: “لۆد”
- Chinese: “卢德”
- Chinese: “盧德”
- Czech: “Lod”
- Danish: “Lod”
- Danish: “Lydda”
- Dutch: “Al-Lydd”
- Dutch: “Diospolis”
- Dutch: “Lod”
- Dutch: “Lydda”
- Dutch: “Lydea”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اللد”
- Esperanto: “Lod”
- Finnish: “Lod”
- Finnish: “Lydda”
- French: “Lod”
- French: “Lydda”
- Galician: “Lod”
- Georgian: “ლოდი”
- German: “Lod”
- German: “Lydda” (historical)
- Greek: “Λιντ”
- Greek: “Λοντ”
- Greek: “Λύδδα”
- Hebrew: “דיוספוליס”
- Hebrew: “לד”
- Hebrew: “לוד”
- Hebrew: “לוֹד”
- Hindi: “लोद”
- Hungarian: “Lod”
- Indonesian: “Lod”
- Interlingua: “Lydda”
- Irish: “Lod”
- Italian: “Diospoli”
- Italian: “Lidda”
- Italian: “Lod”
- Japanese: “リッダ”
- Japanese: “ロード”
- Korean: “로드”
- Latin: “Lydda”
- Lithuanian: “Lida”
- Lithuanian: “Lodas”
- Macedonian: “Лод”
- Malay: “Ludd”
- Malayalam: “Lod”
- Malayalam: “ലുദ്ദ്”
- Malayalam: “ലോഡ്”
- Minangkabau: “Lod”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lod”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lydda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lod”
- Norwegian: “Lod”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lod”
- Persian: “لاد”
- Persian: “لد، اسرائیل”
- Polish: “Lidda”
- Polish: “Lod”
- Portuguese: “Diospolis”
- Portuguese: “Dióspolis”
- Portuguese: “Lida”
- Portuguese: “Lod”
- Romanian: “Lod”
- Russian: “Георгиополь”
- Russian: “Лидда”
- Russian: “Лод”
- Scots: “Lod”
- Serbian: “Lod”
- Serbian: “Лод”
- Serbian: “לוד”
- Slovak: “Lod”
- Slovenian: “Lida”
- Slovenian: “Lod”
- Spanish: “Diospolis”
- Spanish: “Lod”
- Spanish: “Lydda”
- Swahili: “Lod”
- Swedish: “Lod”
- Swedish: “Lydda”
- Tagalog: “Lod”
- Tajik: “Лод”
- Turkish: “Lod”
- Turkish: “Lud”
- Ukrainian: “Георгіополь”
- Ukrainian: “Лідда”
- Ukrainian: “Лод”
- Ukrainian: “Луд”
- Urdu: “لد”
- Vietnamese: “Lod”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lod”
- Yiddish: “לוד”
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