Kasr a Sir

Qasr al-Sir is a Bedouin village in the desert in southern , adjacent to highway 25. The village covers 4,776 dunams. Located three kilometres west of , it falls under the jurisdiction of Neve Midbar Regional Council.
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  • Type: Village with 2,730 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Israel
  • Also known as: “Qasr al-Sir”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dimona.

Railway station
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railway station is a train station in , , opened in 2005. It is on a 35-kilometre-long line between and , a separate operating line within Israel Railways. is situated 3 km east of Kasr a Sir.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Abu Kuraynat and Dimona.

Village
Abu Qrenat is a Bedouin village in . It's located in the , south of Highway 25, between the village of to the west and the Al-Talma mountain ridge to the east. is situated 4 km northwest of Kasr a Sir.

Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small town in the north-eastern desert of . It is the third-largest city in the Negev, with a population of about 34,000. is mostly known for the nearby nuclear research facility, which according to various unofficial publications is the home of Israel's nuclear weapons program.

Kasr a Sir

Latitude
31.07838° or 31° 4′ 42″ north
Longitude
34.98382° or 34° 59′ 2″ east
Population
2,730
Open location code
8G3P3XHM+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
way 92894559
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Wiki­data ID
Q2633179
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Kasr a Sir” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قصر السر”
  • Czech: “Kasr as-Sirr”
  • Dutch: “Qasr al-Sir”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قرية قصر السر”
  • Hebrew: “קסר א-סיר”
  • Hebrew: “קצר א סיר”
  • Hebrew: “קצר א-סר”
  • Hebrew: “קצר אלסר”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qasr al-Sir”
  • Polish: “Kasr as-Sirr”
  • Polish: “Qasr al-Sir”
  • Romanian: “Qasr as-Sir”
  • Russian: “Каср-аль-Сир”
  • Russian: “Каср-эс-Сир”
  • Turkish: “Kasr el-Sir”

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