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Nablus Governorate

Nablus

Nablus is a large city within the Palestinian Territories, in the Central Highlands of the , some 63 km north of .
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  • Type: Town with 157,000 residents
  • Description: city in the West Bank, State of Palestine
  • Also known as: “Nabulus”, “Napouse”, “Neapolis”, “Schechem”, “Shechem”, “Shekhem”, and “Sykhem”

Places of Interest

Highlights include An-Najah National University and Mount Ebal.

University
Photo: أمين, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a non-governmental public university governed by a board of trustees in Nablus, , . The university has 22,000 students and 300 professors in 19 faculties. It is the largest university in the State of Palestine.

Peak
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is one of the two mountains near the city of Nablus in the , and forms the northern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the southern side being formed by .

Stadium
The Nablus Football Stadium is a football stadium in Nablus, . It has a capacity of 30,000. The stadium is home to the city's football club Al-Ittihad, which competes in the main league of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Balata Camp and Berakha.

Town
Photo: Hoshvilim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Palestinian refugee camp established in the northern in 1950, adjacent to Balata village on the outskirts of the city of Nablus. had a population of 14,635 in 2017.

Village
Photo: יאיר דב, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Har Brakha, more commonly spelled Har Bracha is an Israeli settlement located on the southern ridge of at an elevation of 870 metres above sea level, in the 's Samarian Mountains, near the Palestinian city of Nablus.

Town
is a Palestinian town in the , located 3.5 kilometers north of Nablus in the northern . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of approximately 8,813 inhabitants in 2017. is situated 3½ km north of Nablus.

Nablus

Latitude
32.2205° or 32° 13′ 14″ north
Longitude
35.2569° or 35° 15′ 25″ east
Population
157,000
Elevation
569 metres (1,867 feet)
IATA airport code
ZDF
Open location code
8G4Q67C4+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 293546203
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
282615
Wiki­data ID
Q214178
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Zeeuws—“Nablus” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Νεάπολις”
  • Arabic: “مدينة نابلس”
  • Arabic: “نابلس”
  • Aragonese: “Nablus”
  • Armenian: “Նաբլուս”
  • Asturian: “Nablus”
  • Azerbaijani: “Flavi-Neopol”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nablus”
  • Azerbaijani: “Napluz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şxem”
  • Basque: “Nablus”
  • Belarusian: “Наблус”
  • Bengali: “নাবলুস”
  • Bengali: “নাবুলুস”
  • Bulgarian: “Наблус”
  • Catalan: “antigament: Flavia Neapolis”
  • Catalan: “Nablus”
  • Cebuano: “Nablus”
  • Central Kurdish: “نابلوس”
  • Chechen: “Наблус”
  • Chinese: “示剑”
  • Chinese: “納布盧斯”
  • Chinese: “纳布卢斯”
  • Chinese: “那布卢斯”
  • Croatian: “Nablus”
  • Czech: “Flavia Neapolis”
  • Czech: “Flavie Neapolská”
  • Czech: “Náblus”
  • Czech: “Nábul”
  • Czech: “Nábulus”
  • Czech: “Šchem”
  • Czech: “Šekem”
  • Danish: “Nablus”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nablus”
  • Dutch: “Nablus”
  • Dutch: “Sichem”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نابلس”
  • Esperanto: “Nablus”
  • Esperanto: “Nabluso”
  • Estonian: “Nablus”
  • Finnish: “Flavia Neapolis”
  • Finnish: “Nablus”
  • Finnish: “Sikem”
  • Finnish: “Sikkem”
  • French: “Flavia Neapolis”
  • French: “Nablus”
  • French: “Naplouse”
  • French: “Shechem”
  • Galician: “Nablus”
  • German: “Nablus”
  • German: “Sichem”
  • Greek: “Ναμπλούς”
  • Greek: “Νεάπολις”
  • Gujarati: “નેબલ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “נבלוס”
  • Hebrew: “שכם”
  • Hindi: “नबलस”
  • Hindi: “शेखेम”
  • Hungarian: “Náblusz”
  • Indonesian: “Nablus”
  • Italian: “Nablus”
  • Italian: “Sichem”
  • Japanese: “ナーブルス”
  • Japanese: “ナブルス”
  • Javanese: “Nablus”
  • Javanese: “Nabulus”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nablus”
  • Kannada: “ನಬ್ಲುಸ್”
  • Korean: “나블루스”
  • Ladino: “Nablus”
  • Latin: “Flavia Neapolis”
  • Latin: “Neapolis”
  • Latvian: “Nablusa”
  • Lithuanian: “Nablusas”
  • Lithuanian: “Nabulus”
  • Malagasy: “Nablus”
  • Malay: “Nablus”
  • Maltese: “Nablus”
  • Marathi: “नॅबलूस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nablus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nablus”
  • Norwegian: “Nablus”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sihhem”
  • Ossetian: “Наблус”
  • Ossetian: “Сихем”
  • Ossetian: “Шхем”
  • Persian: “نابلس”
  • Persian: “نابلوس”
  • Polish: “Nablus”
  • Polish: “Sychem”
  • Portuguese: “Nablus”
  • Romanian: “Nablus”
  • Russian: “Наблус”
  • Russian: “Наплуз”
  • Russian: “Флавий-Неаполь”
  • Russian: “Шхем”
  • Scots: “Nablus”
  • Scots: “Nabulus”
  • Serbian: “Наблус”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nablus”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Naplusa”
  • Silesian: “Nablus”
  • Sinhala: “නබ්ලස්”
  • Slovak: “Náblus”
  • Slovak: “Šchem”
  • Slovenian: “Nablus”
  • Spanish: “Nablus”
  • Spanish: “Siquem”
  • Swedish: “Nablus”
  • Swedish: “Nāblus”
  • Swedish: “Nābulus”
  • Swedish: “Shekem”
  • Swedish: “نابلس”
  • Swiss German: “Nablus”
  • Tagalog: “Nablus”
  • Tamil: “நப்லஸ்”
  • Tamil: “நாப்லஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Наблус”
  • Telugu: “నబ్లుష్”
  • Thai: “นาบลุส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nablus”
  • Turkish: “Nablus”
  • Uighur: “نابۇلۇس”
  • Ukrainian: “Наблус”
  • Urdu: “نابلس”
  • Vietnamese: “Nablus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nablus”
  • Welsh: “Flavia Neapolis”
  • Welsh: “Nablus”
  • Welsh: “Nablws”
  • Welsh: “Shechem”
  • Western Panjabi: “نابلس”
  • Wu Chinese: “纳布卢斯”
  • Yiddish: “שכם”
  • Yue Chinese: “納布盧斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Nabloes”
  • “Nablus”

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