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”, “Al-Lydd”, “Diospoli”, “Diospolis”, “Dióspolis”, “Diospolis-Lydda”, “Lidd”, “Lod, Israel”, “Lodd”, “Lot”, “Lūd”, “Lydea”, “Mint of Diospolis-Lydda”, “Λιντ”, “Λύδδα”, “Георгиополь”, “Георгіополь”, “Лидда”, “Лідда”, “Луд”, “דיוספוליס”, “לוֹד”, “لدّ”, “ലോഡ്”, and “リッダ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Lod and Church of Saint George.
Church of Saint George
Church
The Church of Saint George is a Greek Orthodox church, located in the city of Lod, Israel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ramla and Ahisamakh.
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)
UN/LOCODE
IL LOD
Open location code
8G3PWVXQ+H9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Lod” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lod”
- Arabic: “اللد”
- Armenian: “Լոդ (Իսրայել)”
- Armenian: “Լոդ”
- Asturian: “Lod”
- Azerbaijani: “Lod”
- Belarusian: “Лод”
- Bengali: “লুদ শহর”
- Catalan: “Lod”
- Cebuano: “Lod”
- Central Kurdish: “لۆد”
- Chinese: “卢德”
- Chinese: “盧德”
- Czech: “Lod”
- Danish: “Lod”
- Dutch: “Lod”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اللد”
- Esperanto: “Lod”
- Finnish: “Lod”
- French: “Lod”
- Galician: “Lod”
- Georgian: “ლოდი”
- German: “Lod”
- German: “Lydda” (historical)
- Greek: “Λοντ”
- Hebrew: “לד”
- Hebrew: “לוד”
- Hindi: “लोद”
- Hungarian: “Lod”
- Indonesian: “Lod”
- Interlingua: “Lydda”
- Irish: “Lod”
- Italian: “Lidda”
- Japanese: “ロード”
- Korean: “로드”
- Latin: “Lydda”
- Lithuanian: “Lodas”
- Macedonian: “Лод”
- Malay: “Ludd”
- Malayalam: “ലുദ്ദ്”
- Minangkabau: “Lod”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lod”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lod”
- Norwegian: “Lod”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lod”
- Persian: “لاد”
- Persian: “لد”
- Polish: “Lod”
- Portuguese: “Lida”
- Romanian: “Lod”
- Russian: “Лод”
- Scots: “Lod”
- Serbian: “Lod”
- Serbian: “Лод”
- Slovak: “Lod”
- Slovenian: “Lod”
- Spanish: “Lod”
- Swahili: “Lod”
- Swedish: “Lod”
- Tagalog: “Lod”
- Tajik: “Лод”
- Turkish: “Lod”
- Turkish: “Lud”
- Ukrainian: “Лод”
- Urdu: “لد”
- Vietnamese: “Lod”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lod”
- Yiddish: “לוד”
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