Beersheba

Beersheba is a city in , and has about 210,000 residents. Beersheba is situated nearby to the suburb , as well as near .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Soroka hospital and Be’er Sheva Merkaz.

Hospital
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Soroka University Medical Center, a part of the Group, is the general hospital of , , it serves as the central hospital of the region and provides medical services to approximately one million residents of the South, from and to .

Railway station
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Be'er Sheva–Center railway station is an Israel Railways terminal in . It is located on Yitzhak Ben-Zvi street next to the city's central bus station and HaNegev Mall.

Museum
Abraham's Well is a historical water well in , , associated with the biblical narrative of Abraham. Its structure houses the archaeology museum of Beersheba.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beer Sheva and Tel Sheva.

Photo: Vladi mir, CC BY 3.0.
Be'er Sheva is a desert city of approximately 200,000 inhabitants in southern . It is the eighth-most populous and second largest city in the country and the gateway to the region of Israel.

Town
Photo: Idobi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Tel as-Sabi is a Bedouin town in the of , bordering the city of . In 2024, it had a population of 24,782.

Village
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is an affluent town in the of , bordering . It is located on Highway 60, between Beersheba and the Shoket Junction. In 2024 it had a population of 8,078.

Beersheba

Latitude
31.2457° or 31° 14′ 45″ north
Longitude
34.7925° or 34° 47′ 33″ east
Population
210,000
Open location code
8G3P6QWV+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 738723480
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Beersheba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بئر السبع”
  • Armenian: “Բեեր Շևա”
  • Basque: “Beer-Xeva”
  • Belarusian: “Беэр-Шэва”
  • Catalan: “Beerxeba”
  • Chinese: “贝尔谢巴”
  • Czech: “Beer Ševa”
  • Danish: “Beersheba”
  • Dutch: “Beër Sjeva”
  • Finnish: “Beer Sheva”
  • French: “Beer-Sheva”
  • Georgian: “ბეერ-შევა”
  • German: “Beerscheba”
  • Greek: “Μπερ Σεβά”
  • Hebrew: “באר שבע”
  • Hindi: “बीरशेबा”
  • Hungarian: “Beér-Seva”
  • Italian: “Bersabea”
  • Japanese: “ベエルシェバ”
  • Korean: “베르셰바”
  • Lithuanian: “Beer Ševa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beer Sheva”
  • Polish: “Beer Szewa”
  • Portuguese: “Bersebá”
  • Romanian: “Beer Șeva”
  • Russian: “Беэр-Шева”
  • Serbian: “Биршеба”
  • Spanish: “Beerseba”
  • Swedish: “Be’er Sheva”
  • Thai: “เบียร์ชีบา”
  • Ukrainian: “Беер-Шева”
  • Vietnamese: “Beersheba”
  • Welsh: “Beersheba”

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