Safed
Safed is a city in the Upper Galilee region of Israel, and is one of the oldest centers for Jewish learning and spirituality, home to the Kabbalah movement which is popular with celebrities.
- Type: Town with 30,100 residents
- Description: city in northern Israel
- Also known as: “Cefat”, “Cfato”, “Lungsod ng Ẕfat”, “Safad”, “Safat”, “Safes”, “Saphet”, “Sefad”, “Sfad”, “Sfat”, “Tsefat”, “Tsefiya”, “tsfat”, “Tzefat”, “Tzfas”, “Tzfat”, “Zefat”, “Ẕefat”, “Zfat”, “Ẕfat”, “Σάφεντ”, “Цефат”, “צפאת”, “צְפַת”, “사페드”, “サフェド”, “萨法德”, and “薩法德”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Abuhav Synagogue and Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosh Pina and Birya.
Birya
Village
Photo: Boazshlomi, Public domain.’Akbara
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Safed
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Northern District, Upper Galilee, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.9662° or 32° 57′ 58″ north
Longitude
35.4961° or 35° 29′ 46″ east
Population
30,100
Elevation
779 metres (2,556 feet)
Open location code
8G4QXF8W+FF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Safed” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Safed”
- Arabic: “صفد”
- Aragonese: “Safet”
- Armenian: “Ցֆաթ”
- Asturian: “Safed”
- Azerbaijani: “Safed”
- Basque: “Safed”
- Belarusian: “Сафэд”
- Belarusian: “Цфат”
- Bengali: “সাফেদ”
- Bulgarian: “Сафед”
- Catalan: “Safed”
- Cebuano: “Safed”
- Central Kurdish: “سەفەد”
- Chinese: “采法特”
- Croatian: “Safed”
- Czech: “Safed”
- Danish: “Safad”
- Dutch: “Safed”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صفد”
- Esperanto: “Safed”
- Estonian: “Tsfat”
- Finnish: “Safed”
- French: “Safed”
- Georgian: “ცფათი”
- German: “Safed”
- Greek: “Σαφέντ”
- Gujarati: “સફેડ”
- Hebrew: “צפת”
- Hindi: “सफ़त”
- Hindi: “सफ़द”
- Hindi: “सफ़ेद”
- Indonesian: “Safed”
- Irish: “Safed”
- Italian: “Safad”
- Japanese: “ツファット”
- Kalaallisut: “Safed”
- Kannada: “ಸಫೆಡ್”
- Kazakh: “Сафад”
- Korean: “제파트”
- Ladino: “Safed”
- Latvian: “Safeda”
- Lithuanian: “Safedas”
- Macedonian: “Сафед”
- Malay: “Safed”
- Marathi: “सफेड”
- Mingrelian: “ცფათი”
- Mongolian: “Цфат”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Safed”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Safed”
- Norwegian: “Safed”
- Ossetian: “Сафед”
- Persian: “صفد”
- Polish: “Safed”
- Portuguese: “Safed”
- Romanian: “Safed”
- Russian: “Цфат”
- Scots: “Safed”
- Serbian: “Safed”
- Serbian: “Сафед”
- Sindhi: “صفد”
- Sinhala: “සෆෙඩ්”
- Slovak: “Cfat”
- Slovenian: “Safed”
- Spanish: “Safed”
- Swahili: “Safed”
- Swedish: “Safed”
- Swiss German: “Safed”
- Tagalog: “Safed”
- Tamil: “சேப்பாத்”
- Tatar: “Сәфед”
- Telugu: “సఫేద్”
- Thai: “ซาเฟด”
- Turkish: “Safed”
- Ukrainian: “Цфат”
- Urdu: “صفد”
- Vietnamese: “Safed”
- Waray (Philippines): “Safed”
- Welsh: “Safed”
- Western Frisian: “Safed”
- Yiddish: “צפת”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Kiryat HaOmanim and Maale Kanaan.
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