Tulkarm
Tulkarm is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, on the border between Israel and the West Bank. Its population was about 82,000 in 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mohammad Hijjawi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 64,500 residents
- Description: City in the State of Palestine
- Also known as: “Keram”, “Tūl Kerem”, and “Tulkarem”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and Tul Karm War Cemetery.
Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Mohammad Hijjawi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital or Tulkarm Governmental Hospital is a government hospital in Tulkarm, West Bank, Palestine. It is under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tulkarm Refugee Camp and Nur Shams.
Tulkarm Refugee Camp
Suburb
Photo: WalidHsein, CC BY 3.0.
Tulkarm Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp north of the West Bank in the city of Tulkarm, established in 1950 on 0.18 km2 by the UNRWA. It is the second largest refugee camp in the West Bank, as well as one of the most densely populated.
Nur Shams
Village
Photo: أمين, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nur Shams is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northwestern West Bank, located three kilometres east of Tulkarm. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Nur Shams had a population of 6,479 inhabitants in 2007 and 6,423 by 2017.
Bat Hefer
Village
Bat Hefer is a community settlement in the Sharon plain in Israel. Located east of Netanya and adjacent to two kibbutzim; Bahan and Yad Hana, it covers 1,000 dunams and falls under the jurisdiction of the Hefer Valley Regional Council.
Tulkarm
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Tulkarm Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.3111° or 32° 18′ 40″ northLongitude
35.0276° or 35° 1′ 39″ eastPopulation
64,500Elevation
107 metres (351 feet)Open location code
8G4Q826H+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2418943009OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
281577Wikidata ID
Q985531
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Tulkarm” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “طول كرم”
- Arabic: “طولكرم”
- Aragonese: “Tulkarem”
- Armenian: “Տուլկարմ”
- Asturian: “Tulkarm”
- Basque: “Tulkarem”
- Basque: “Tulkarm”
- Belarusian: “Тулькарм”
- Bengali: “তুলকারেম”
- Catalan: “Tulkarem”
- Catalan: “Tulkarm”
- Cebuano: “Ţūlkarm”
- Central Kurdish: “توولکەرم”
- Chinese: “图勒凯尔姆”
- Chinese: “图卡瑞姆”
- Chinese: “圖勒凱爾姆”
- Chinese: “圖卡瑞姆”
- Chinese: “圖卡門”
- Czech: “Tulkarem”
- Czech: “Túlkarim”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tulkarim”
- Dutch: “Toelkarem”
- Dutch: “Toelkarma”
- Dutch: “Tulkarem”
- Dutch: “Tulkarm”
- Dutch: “Tulkarma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “طولكرم”
- Esperanto: “Tulkarm”
- Finnish: “Tulkarem”
- Finnish: “Tulkarm”
- French: “Toulkarem”
- French: “Tulkarem”
- German: “Tulkarem”
- German: “Tulkarm”
- Greek: “Τουλκαρέμ”
- Greek: “Τουλκάρμ”
- Greek: “Τούλκαρμ”
- Hebrew: “טול כרם”
- Hebrew: “טול-כרם”
- Hebrew: “טולכרם”
- Hindi: “टुलकरम”
- Indonesian: “Tulkarm”
- Irish: “Tulkarm”
- Italian: “Tulkarem”
- Italian: “Tulkarm”
- Japanese: “トゥールカリム”
- Japanese: “トゥルカーム”
- Japanese: “トゥルカレム”
- Korean: “툴카름”
- Lithuanian: “Tulkarmas”
- Maltese: “Tulkarem”
- Maltese: “Tulkarm”
- North Levantine Arabic: “طولكرم”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tulkarem”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tulkarm”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tulkarm”
- Norwegian: “Tulkarem”
- Persian: “طولکرم”
- Polish: “Tulkarem”
- Polish: “Tulkarm”
- Portuguese: “Tulcarém”
- Portuguese: “Tulkarm”
- Romanian: “Tulkarm”
- Russian: “Тул-Карем”
- Russian: “Туль-Карем”
- Russian: “Тулькарм”
- Serbian: “Тулкарм”
- Silesian: “Tulkarm”
- Slovak: “Túlkarim”
- Slovenian: “Tulkarem”
- Slovenian: “Tulkarm”
- Spanish: “Tulcarem”
- Spanish: “Tulkarem”
- Spanish: “Tulkarm”
- Swedish: “Tulkarem”
- Swedish: “Tulkarm”
- Turkish: “Tulkarim”
- Ukrainian: “Тулькарм”
- Urdu: “طولکرم”
- Venetian: “Tulkarm”
- Welsh: “Tulkarm”
- Western Panjabi: “تلکرم”
- Western Panjabi: “طولکرم”
- Zeeuws: “Toelkarem”
- “Tulkarem”
- “Tulkarm”
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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 “Tulkarm”. Photo: Mohammad Hijjawi, CC BY-SA 4.0.