Rahat

Rahat is a city of 70,000 in the southern region of . It was founded in 1972 as a home for the previously nomadic Bedouin Arabs, who form the large majority of its population. It is the largest Bedouin settlement in the world.
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  • Town with about 64,500 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 220 metres (730 feet)
  • Description: Bedouin city in Israel

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shoval and Giv’ot Bar.
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is a kibbutz in southern .
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Giv'ot Bar is a community settlement in the northern desert in southern . is situated 4 km south of Rahat.

Rahat

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Latitude
31.3934° or 31° 23′ 36″ north
Longitude
34.7547° or 34° 45′ 17″ east
UN/LOCODE
IL RHT
Open location code
8G3P9QV3+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 280115936
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8184212
Wiki­data ID
Q167617

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Rahat” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الخضراء”
  • Arabic: “راهط”
  • Arabic: “رهط”
  • Asturian: “Rahat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rahat”
  • Basque: “Rahat”
  • Bavarian: “Rahat”
  • Breton: “Rahat”
  • Catalan: “Rahat”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕەھەت”
  • Chinese: “拉哈特”
  • Croatian: “Rahat”
  • Czech: “Rahat”
  • Dutch: “Rahat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رهط”
  • Esperanto: “Rahat”
  • Finnish: “Rahat”
  • French: “Rahat”
  • Georgian: “რაჰატი”
  • German: “Rahat”
  • Greek: “Ραχάτ”
  • Hebrew: “רהט”
  • Hebrew: “רהת”
  • Indonesian: “Rahat”
  • Italian: “Rahat”
  • Japanese: “ラハト”
  • Ladino: “Rahat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rahat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rahat”
  • Norwegian: “Rahat”
  • Persian: “رهط”
  • Polish: “Rahat”
  • Portuguese: “Rahat”
  • Romanian: “Rahat, Israel”
  • Russian: “Рахат”
  • Scots: “Rahat”
  • Serbian: “Rahat”
  • Serbian: “Рахат”
  • Serbian: “רהט”
  • Spanish: “Rahat”
  • Swahili: “Rahat”
  • Tagalog: “Rahat”
  • Turkish: “Rahat”
  • Ukrainian: “Рагат”
  • Ukrainian: “Рахат”
  • Urdu: “رہط”
  • Vietnamese: “Rahat”
  • Yiddish: “רהט”

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