Rahat
Rahat is a city of 70,000 in the southern Negev region of Israel. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shoval and Giv’ot Bar.
Shoval
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shoval is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located in the northern Negev desert near the Bedouin city of Rahat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,032.
Giv’ot Bar
Village
Photo: Idobi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Giv'ot Bar is a community settlement in the northern Negev desert in southern Israel. Located to the south of the Bedouin city of Rahat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,344. Giv’ot Bar is situated 4 km south of Rahat.
Rahat
- Type: Town with 19,600 residents
- Description: Bedouin city in Israel
- Categories: city, city council, and locality
- Location: Southern District, Negev, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.3934° or 31° 23′ 36″ northLongitude
34.7547° or 34° 45′ 17″ eastPopulation
19,600Elevation
228 metres (748 feet)United Nations Location Code
IL RHTOpen location code
8G3P9QV3+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 280115936OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- Catalan: “Rahat”
- 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Rahat”. Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 3.0.