Nablus
Nablus is a large city within the Palestinian Territories, in the Central Highlands of the West Bank, some 63 km north of Jerusalem.
- Type: Town with 157,000 residents
- Description: city in the West Bank, State of Palestine
- Also known as: “antigament: Flavia Neapolis”, “Flavi-Neopol”, “Flavie Neapolská”, “Mint of Neapolis”, “Nāblus”, “Nablusa”, “Nabluso”, “Nablws”, “Nábul”, “Nabulus”, “Nābulus”, “Napluz”, “Napouse”, “Neapolis”, “Schechem”, “Šchem”, “Šekem”, “Shechem”, “Shekem”, “Shekhem”, “Sikem”, “Şxem”, “Sykhem”, “Наплуз”, “Сихем”, “Флавий-Неаполь”, “Шхем”, “מטבעת נאפוליס”, “נבלוס”, “مدينة نابلس”, “ナブルス”, “示剑”, and “那布卢斯”
Places of Interest
Highlights: An-Najah National University and Mount Ebal.
Municipality Stadiun
Stadium
The Nablus Football Stadium is a football stadium in Nablus, Palestine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balata Camp and Berakha.
Asira ash-Shamaliya
Town
Asira ash-Shamaliya is a Palestinian town in the… Asira ash-Shamaliya is situated 3½ km north of Nablus.
Nablus
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Zeeuws—“Nablus” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Νεάπολις”
- Arabic: “نابلس”
- Aragonese: “Nablus”
- Armenian: “Նաբլուս”
- Asturian: “Nablus”
- Azerbaijani: “Nablus”
- Basque: “Nablus”
- Belarusian: “Наблус”
- Bengali: “নাবলুস”
- Bengali: “নাবুলুস”
- Bulgarian: “Наблус”
- Catalan: “Nablus”
- Cebuano: “Nablus”
- Central Kurdish: “نابلوس”
- Chechen: “Наблус”
- Chinese: “納布盧斯”
- Chinese: “纳布卢斯”
- Croatian: “Nablus”
- Czech: “Náblus”
- Danish: “Nablus”
- Dimli (individual language): “Nablus”
- Dutch: “Nablus”
- Dutch: “Sichem”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نابلس”
- Esperanto: “Nablus”
- Estonian: “Nablus”
- Finnish: “Nablus”
- Finnish: “Sikkem”
- French: “Naplouse”
- Galician: “Nablus”
- German: “Nablus”
- German: “Sichem”
- Greek: “Ναμπλούς”
- Gujarati: “નેબલ્સ”
- Hebrew: “שכם”
- Hindi: “नाबुलुस”
- Hindi: “शेखेम”
- Hungarian: “Náblusz”
- Indonesian: “Nablus”
- Italian: “Nablus”
- Italian: “Sichem”
- Japanese: “ナーブルス”
- Javanese: “Nablus”
- Kalaallisut: “Nablus”
- Kannada: “ನಬ್ಲುಸ್”
- Korean: “나블루스”
- Ladino: “Nablus”
- Latin: “Flavia Neapolis”
- Latvian: “Nāblusa”
- Lithuanian: “Nablusas”
- Malagasy: “Nablus”
- Malay: “Nablus”
- Maltese: “Nablus”
- Marathi: “नॅबलूस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nablus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nablus”
- Norwegian: “Nablus”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sihhem”
- Ossetian: “Наблус”
- Persian: “نابلس”
- Persian: “نابلوس”
- Polish: “Nablus”
- Polish: “Sychem”
- Portuguese: “Nablus”
- Romanian: “Nablus”
- Russian: “Наблус”
- Scots: “Nablus”
- Serbian: “Наблус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nablus”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Naplusa”
- Silesian: “Nablus”
- Sinhala: “නබ්ලස්”
- Slovak: “Náblus”
- Slovenian: “Nablus”
- Spanish: “Nablus”
- Spanish: “Siquem”
- Swedish: “Nablus”
- Swiss German: “Nablus”
- Tagalog: “Nablus”
- Tamil: “நப்லஸ்”
- Tamil: “நாப்லஸ்”
- Tatar: “Наблус”
- Telugu: “నబ్లుష్”
- Thai: “นาบลุส”
- Turkish: “Nablus”
- Uighur: “نابۇلۇس”
- Ukrainian: “Наблус”
- Urdu: “نابلس”
- Vietnamese: “Nablus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nablus”
- Welsh: “Nablus”
- Western Panjabi: “نابلس”
- Wu Chinese: “纳布卢斯”
- Yiddish: “שכם”
- Yue Chinese: “納布盧斯”
- Zeeuws: “Nabloes”
- “Nablus”
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