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Ramallah & al-Bireh Governorate

Ramallah

Ramallah or Ram Allah is a small city in the region of the Palestinian Territories, located 15 km north of . Since the inception of the Palestinian National Authority, Ramallah has acted as the de facto capital city of the Palestinian administration.
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  • Type: Town with 27,500 residents
  • Description: city in the State of Palestine
  • Also known as: “Rahm Alla”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: AmeenSaeb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Government Departments Complex and Al Manara Square.

Public building
Photo: PalestinianLiberator, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mukataa is an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center, particularly in Palestine. Mukataas were mostly built during the British Mandate as Tegart forts and were used both as British government centers and as dwellings for the British administrative staff.

Square
Photo: AmeenSaeb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a located in Ramallah, , . It has been called "one of Palestine’s renowned public spaces."…

Mosque
Photo: Abutoum, Public domain.
Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque is the largest in , , . Located in the Downtown district of the city, the mosque is named after the late president and Arab leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Bireh and Beitunia.

Town
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, al-Birah, or el-Bira is a city in the central , 15 kilometers north of . It is the capital of the of the State of Palestine.

Town
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, also Bitunya, is a Palestinian city located 3 kilometers west of Ramallah and 14 kilometers north of , in the of , in the central .

Village
Photo: Ramallite, Public domain.
is an Israeli settlement in the , located on Tawil hill, adjacent to the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and . Established in 1981, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of , with the council's headquarters located there.

Ramallah

Latitude
31.9031° or 31° 54′ 11″ north
Longitude
35.1952° or 35° 11′ 43″ east
Population
27,500
Elevation
879 metres (2,884 feet)
IATA airport code
ZDM
United Nations Location Code
PS RMH
Open location code
8G3QW53W+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246843686
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
282239
Wiki­data ID
Q158119
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ramallah” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ramallah”
  • Albanian: “Ramallah”
  • Albanian: “Ramallahu”
  • Arabic: “رام الله”
  • Arabic: “مدينة رام الله”
  • Aragonese: “Ramala”
  • Armenian: “Ռամալա”
  • Armenian: “Ռամալահ”
  • Armenian: “Ռամալլա”
  • Armenian: “Ռամալլահ”
  • Asturian: “Ramala”
  • Avaric: “Рамаллагь”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ramallah”
  • Bashkir: “Рамаллаһ”
  • Basque: “Ramala”
  • Basque: “Ramallah”
  • Belarusian: “Рамала”
  • Belarusian: “Рамалах”
  • Bengali: “রামাল্লাহ”
  • Betawi: “Ramallah”
  • Breton: “Ramallah”
  • Bulgarian: “Рамала”
  • Bulgarian: “Рамалла”
  • Catalan: “Ramala”
  • Catalan: “Ramallah”
  • Catalan: “Ramal·lah”
  • Cebuano: “Ramallah”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕامەڵا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕامەڵڵا”
  • Chechen: “РамаллахӀ”
  • Chinese: “Ramallah”
  • Chinese: “拉姆安拉”
  • Chinese: “拉瑪拉”
  • Chinese: “拉馬拉”
  • Chinese: “拉马拉”
  • Chinese: “藍姆安拉”
  • Croatian: “Ramala”
  • Croatian: “Ramallah”
  • Czech: “Ramala”
  • Czech: “Rámaláh”
  • Czech: “Ramallah”
  • Czech: “Ramalláh”
  • Danish: “Ramallah”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ramallah”
  • Dutch: “Ramalla”
  • Dutch: “Ramallah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رام الله”
  • Esperanto: “Ramalaho”
  • Esperanto: “Ramallah”
  • Estonian: “Ram Allah”
  • Estonian: “Rām Allāh”
  • Estonian: “Ramallah”
  • Finnish: “Ramallah”
  • French: “Ramallah”
  • Galician: “Ramala”
  • Georgian: “რამალა”
  • German: “Ramallah”
  • Greek: “Ραμάλα”
  • Greek: “Ραμάλλα”
  • Guarani: “Ramala”
  • Gujarati: “રામાલાહ”
  • Hausa: “Ramallah”
  • Hebrew: “ראם אללה”
  • Hebrew: “ראמאללה”
  • Hebrew: “רמאלה”
  • Hebrew: “רמאללה”
  • Hindi: “रामल्ला”
  • Hungarian: “Rámalláh”
  • Icelandic: “Ramallah”
  • Ido: “Ramala”
  • Iloko: “Ramallah”
  • Indonesian: “Ramallah”
  • Irish: “Ramallah”
  • Italian: “Ramallah”
  • Italian: “Rāmallāh”
  • Japanese: “ラーマッラー”
  • Japanese: “ラマッラ”
  • Japanese: “ラマッラー”
  • Japanese: “ラマラ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ramallah”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಮಾಲ್ಲಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “رملہ”
  • Kazakh: “Рамалла”
  • Kazakh: “Рамаллаһ”
  • Kirghiz: “Рамалла”
  • Komering: “Ramallah”
  • Korean: “라말라”
  • Kurdish: “Ramella”
  • Ladino: “Ramala”
  • Latin: “Ramallah”
  • Latvian: “Rāmalla”
  • Ligurian: “Ramallah”
  • Lithuanian: “Ramala”
  • Lombard: “Rām Allāh”
  • Lombard: “Ramallah”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ramallah”
  • Macedonian: “Рамала”
  • Malay: “Ramallah”
  • Malayalam: “റാമല്ല”
  • Maltese: “Ramallah”
  • Marathi: “रामाल्ला”
  • Mazanderani: “رام‌الله”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ramallah”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ramallah”
  • Minangkabau: “Ramallah”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “رام الله”
  • Neapolitan: “Ramallah”
  • Nepali: “रामल्ला”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ramallah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ramallah”
  • Norwegian: “Ramallah”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ramallah”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ræmæla”
  • Ossetian: “Рамаллæ”
  • Ossetian: “Рамалла”
  • Ossetian: “Рамаллах”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਾਮੱਲਾ”
  • Persian: “رام الله”
  • Persian: “رام‌الله”
  • Piemontese: “Ramallah”
  • Polish: “Ram Allah”
  • Polish: “Ramallah”
  • Portuguese: “Ramala”
  • Portuguese: “Ramalá”
  • Portuguese: “Ramallah”
  • Pushto: “رام الله”
  • Romanian: “Ramala”
  • Romanian: “Ramallah”
  • Romanian: “Рамаллах”
  • Russian: “Рама”
  • Russian: “Рамалла”
  • Russian: “Рамаллах”
  • Sardinian: “Ramallah”
  • Scots: “Ramallah”
  • Serbian: “Ramala”
  • Serbian: “Божје брдо”
  • Serbian: “Рамала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ramala”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ramallah”
  • Shona: “Ramallah”
  • Silesian: “Ramallah”
  • Sindhi: “رمله”
  • Sinhala: “රමල්ලා”
  • Slovak: “Ramalláh”
  • Slovenian: “Ramala”
  • Spanish: “Ramala”
  • Spanish: “Ramalla”
  • Spanish: “Ramallah”
  • Swahili: “Ramallah”
  • Swedish: “Ramalla”
  • Swedish: “Ramallah”
  • Tajik: “Рамаллоҳ”
  • Tajik: “Ромуллоҳ”
  • Tamil: “ரமல்லா”
  • Tamil: “ரம்லா”
  • Tatar: “Ramallah”
  • Telugu: “రామల్ల”
  • Thai: “รอมัลลอฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Ramallah”
  • Ukrainian: “Рамалла”
  • Urdu: “رام الله”
  • Urdu: “رام اللہ”
  • Uzbek: “Ramalla”
  • Veps: “Ramall”
  • Veps: “Ramallah”
  • Vietnamese: “Ramallah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ramallah”
  • Welsh: “Ramallah”
  • Western Armenian: “Ռամալլա”
  • Western Frisian: “Ramallah”
  • Western Panjabi: “رام اللہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “رملہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉姆安拉”
  • Yiddish: “ראמאללא”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉姆安拉”
  • Zeeuws: “Ramallah”
  • Zulu: “i-Ramallah”
  • “Рамаллах”

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