Sderot
Sderot is a western Negev city and former development town in the Southern District of Israel. In 2024, it had a population of 37,239. Sderot is located less than a mile from Gaza, and is notable for having been a major target of Qassam rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.
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- Type: Town with 27,600 residents
- Description: city in Israel
- Also known as: “Șderot”, “Sederot”, “Sederoth”, “Shederot”, “اسديروت”, “سيديروت”, “شهرک سدروت”, “塞代罗特”, and “斯德罗特”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sderot and Hesder Yeshiva of Sderot.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nir Am and Gevim.
Sderot
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Southern District, Negev, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.5265° or 31° 31′ 35″ north
Longitude
34.597° or 34° 35′ 49″ east
Population
27,600
Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IL SDT
Open location code
8G3PGHGW+HQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Sderot” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سديروت”
- Armenian: “Սդերոթ”
- Asturian: “Sderot”
- Basque: “Sderot”
- Belarusian: “Сдэрот”
- Breton: “Sderot”
- Bulgarian: “Седерот”
- Catalan: “Sderot”
- Catalan: “Sederot”
- Cebuano: “Sederot”
- Central Kurdish: “سدێرۆت”
- Chinese: “斯代罗特”
- Chinese: “斯德洛特”
- Czech: “Sderot”
- Danish: “Sderot”
- Dutch: “Sderot”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سديروت”
- Esperanto: “Sderot”
- Esperanto: “Sderoto”
- Estonian: “Sderot”
- Estonian: “Sederot”
- Finnish: “Sderot”
- French: “Sdérot”
- Georgian: “სდეროთი”
- German: “Sderot”
- Greek: “Σντερότ”
- Hebrew: “שדרות”
- Hungarian: “Szderót”
- Indonesian: “Sderot”
- Italian: “Sderot”
- Japanese: “スデロット”
- Korean: “스데로트”
- Ladino: “Sderot”
- Macedonian: “Сдерот”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sderot”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sderot”
- Norwegian: “Sderot”
- Persian: “سدروت”
- Polish: “Sderot”
- Polish: “Sederot”
- Portuguese: “Sderot”
- Romanian: “Sderot”
- Romanian: “Şderot”
- Russian: “Сдерот”
- Scots: “Sderot”
- Serbian: “Сдерот”
- Spanish: “Sederot”
- Swahili: “Sderot”
- Swedish: “Sderot”
- Tagalog: “Sderot”
- Turkish: “Sderot”
- Ukrainian: “Сдерот”
- Urdu: “سدیروت”
- Vietnamese: “Sderot”
- Welsh: “Sderot”
- Yiddish: “שדרות”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Neot Ha-Meyasdim and Neve Eshkol.
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