Nur Shams
Nur Shams is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northwestern West Bank, located three kilometres east of Tulkarm. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Nur Shams had a population of 6,479 inhabitants in 2007 and 6,423 by 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 6,420 residents
- Description: refugee camp in Tulkarm, State of Palestine
- Also known as: “Nur Shams Camp”, “Nur Shams Camp, Tulkarm”, and “Nur Shams, Tulkarm”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and Alfadliyah secondary boys school.
Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Mohammad Hijjawi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital or Tulkarm Governmental Hospital is a government hospital in Tulkarm, West Bank, Palestine. It is under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital is situated 3 km west of Nur Shams.
Alfadliyah secondary boys school
School
Photo: أمين, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alfadliyah secondary boys school is situated 3½ km west of Nur Shams.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Iktaba and Tulkarm Refugee Camp.
Iktaba
Village
Iktaba is a Palestinian town located four kilometers Northeast of the city of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,665 inhabitants in 2007 and 2,997 by 2017.
Tulkarm Refugee Camp
Suburb
Photo: WalidHsein, CC BY 3.0.
Tulkarm Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp north of the West Bank in the city of Tulkarm, established in 1950 on 0.18 km2 by the UNRWA. It is the second largest refugee camp in the West Bank, as well as one of the most densely populated.
Tulkarm
Photo: Mohammad Hijjawi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tulkarm is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, on the border between Israel and the West Bank. Its population was about 82,000 in 2017.
Nur Shams
- Categories: refugee camp, Palestinian refugee camp, human settlement, and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.31804° or 32° 19′ 5″ northLongitude
35.05981° or 35° 3′ 35″ eastPopulation
6,420Open location code
8G4Q8395+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 333129022OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q7069998
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Nur Shams” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مخيم نور شمس”
- Catalan: “Nur Shams”
- Chinese: “努尔沙姆斯”
- Chinese: “努爾沙姆斯”
- Czech: “Nur Šams”
- Dutch: “Nur Shams, Tulkarm”
- French: “Nur Shams, Tulkarm”
- French: “Nur Shams”
- Hebrew: “מ.פ. נור שמס”
- Hebrew: “נור א-שמס”
- Hebrew: “נור שמס”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nur Shams i Tulkarm”
- Persian: “اردوگاه نور شمس”
- Polish: “Muchajjam Nur Szams”
- Spanish: “Campamento de Nur Shams”
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