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West Bank

The West Bank is an area located in the between and , to the north of the . It forms the larger half of the semi-autonomous Palestinian Territories, the smaller half being the .
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is a small city located some 10 km south of the Old City of within the West Bank, in an "Area A" zone administered by the Palestinian Authority.

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or Ram Allah is a small city in the West Bank region of the Palestinian Territories, located 15 km north of . Since the inception of the Palestinian National Authority, has acted as the de facto capital city of the Palestinian administration.

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, the "City of Palms", is a small city within the Palestinian Territories close to the northern end of and some 55 km from .

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is an ancient city in the southern West Bank. It is the traditional burial place of the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their wives.

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is a large city within the Palestinian Territories, in the Central Highlands of the West Bank, some 63 km north of .

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is a city in the West Bank, , and is the capital of the . It is a hub for the surrounding towns. came under Israeli occupation in 1967, and was put under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority as Area A of the West Bank, a Palestinian enclave, in 1995.

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is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, on the border between and the West Bank. Its population was about 82,000 in 2017.

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is an Israeli settlement in "Area C", within the north-central West Bank. It is approximately 40 km east of Tel-Aviv and 30 km east of . It is beside the Palestinian town of Salfit.

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or Qalqiliya is a city in the West Bank, , which serves as the administrative center of the Governorate. The city had a population of 51,683 in 2017.

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Maale Adumim is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, east of . It has about 37,000 residents.

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is a group of Israeli settlements in the West Bank between and , about 950 meters above the sea level. It has a rich history dating from the 1920s and 30s to recent times.

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a small Israeli settlement in the north-central West Bank, located near the historical site of the Samarian city of the same name.

West Bank

Latitude of center
32.0255° or 32° 1′ 32″ north
Longitude of center
35.2888° or 35° 17′ 20″ east
Population
2,950,000
Elevation
624 metres (2,047 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1472876649
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
285153
Wiki­data ID
Q36678
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“West Bank” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cisjordanië”
  • Afrikaans: “Wes-Oewer”
  • Afrikaans: “Wesoewer”
  • Albanian: “Bregu Perëndimor”
  • Arabic: “West Bank”
  • Arabic: “الضفة الغربية”
  • Arabic: “الضفه الغربية”
  • Arabic: “الضفه الغربيه”
  • Arabic: “ضفة الغربية”
  • Arabic: “ضفة غربية”
  • Aragonese: “Cischordania”
  • Aragonese: “Zischordania”
  • Armenian: “Հորդանան գեի արևմտյան ափ”
  • Armenian: “Հորդանան գետի արևմտյան ափ”
  • Armenian: “Հորդանան գետի ձախ ափ”
  • Asturian: “Cisxordania”
  • Asturian: “Cixordania”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cisiordaniya”
  • Azerbaijani: “İordan çayının qərb sahili”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qərb Sahil”
  • Basque: “Jordanen Mendebaldeko Ibarra”
  • Basque: “Zisjordania”
  • Belarusian: “Заходні бераг ракі Іардан”
  • Belarusian: “Заходні бераг ракі Ярдан”
  • Belarusian: “Заходні бераг”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েস্ট ব্যাংক”
  • Bengali: “পশ্চিম তীর”
  • Bishnupriya: “পিছ পার”
  • Bosnian: “Zapadna obala”
  • Breton: “Kornôg Jordania”
  • Breton: “Sisjordania”
  • Bulgarian: “Западен бряг”
  • Catalan: “Cisjordania”
  • Catalan: “Cisjordània”
  • Cebuano: “West Bank (dapit)”
  • Cebuano: “West Bank”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەناری ڕۆژاوا”
  • Chechen: “Урдан хин малхбузен хийист”
  • Chinese: “約旦河西岸佔領區”
  • Chinese: “約旦河西岸地區”
  • Chinese: “约旦河西岸”
  • Chinese: “约旦河西岸地区”
  • Chinese: “西岸”
  • Chinese: “西岸地區”
  • Cornish: “Glann West”
  • Corsican: “Cisghjordania”
  • Corsican: “Cisghjurdania”
  • Croatian: “Zapadna obala”
  • Croatian: “Zapadna Obala”
  • Czech: “Předjordánsko”
  • Czech: “Západní břeh Jordánu”
  • Czech: “Západní břeh”
  • Danish: “Vestbanken”
  • Danish: “Vestbredden”
  • Dutch: “Cisjordanie”
  • Dutch: “Cisjordanië”
  • Dutch: “West Bank”
  • Dutch: “Westbank”
  • Dutch: “Westelijke Jordaan oever”
  • Dutch: “Westelijke Jordaanoever”
  • Dutch: “Westoever”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الضفه الغربيه”
  • Esperanto: “Cisjordanio”
  • Esperanto: “Okcidenta bordo de Jordano”
  • Esperanto: “Okcidenta bordo”
  • Esperanto: “West Bank”
  • Esperanto: “Westbank”
  • Estonian: “Jordani Läänekallas”
  • Estonian: “Läänekallas”
  • Faroese: “Vestara Áarbakka”
  • Faroese: “Vestari Áarbakka”
  • Faroese: “Vestari Áarbakki”
  • Finnish: “Cisjordania”
  • Finnish: “Länsiranta”
  • French: “Cisjordanie occupée”
  • French: “Cisjordanie”
  • French: “Judée et Samarie”
  • French: “Judée-Samarie”
  • Galician: “Cisxordania”
  • Georgian: “დასავლეთი ნაპირი”
  • Georgian: “იორდანეს დასავლეთი ნაპირი”
  • Georgian: “მდინარე იორდანეს დასავლეთი ნაპირი”
  • Georgian: “მდინარე იორდანეს დასავლეთი სანაპირო”
  • German: “Cisjordanien”
  • German: “Jordanland”
  • German: “West Bank”
  • German: “West-Bank”
  • German: “Westbank”
  • German: “Westjordanien”
  • German: “Westjordanland”
  • German: “Zisjordanien”
  • Gilaki: “اؤردؤنˇ رۊخؤنه أفتؤپردچینˇ کۊل”
  • Greek: “Δυτική Όχθη”
  • Guarani: “Sihorytáña”
  • Gujarati: “વેસ્ટ બેન્ક”
  • Hausa: “Gaɓar Yamma”
  • Hebrew: “HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit”
  • Hebrew: “אזור יהודה ושומרון”
  • Hebrew: “איו’ש”
  • Hebrew: “הגדה המערבית”
  • Hebrew: “הַגָּדָה הַמַּעֲרָבִית”
  • Hebrew: “יהודה והשומרון”
  • Hebrew: “יהודה ושומרון”
  • Hebrew: “יו’ש”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז ש’י”
  • Hindi: “पश्चिमी तट (यहूदिया और सामरिया)”
  • Hindi: “पश्चिमी तट”
  • Hungarian: “Ciszjordánia”
  • Hungarian: “West bank”
  • Icelandic: “Vesturbakkinn”
  • Ido: “Cisjordania”
  • Indonesian: “Tepi Barat”
  • Irish: “an Bruach Thiar”
  • Irish: “An Bruach Thiar”
  • Irish: “Bruach Thiar”
  • Italian: “Cisgiordania”
  • Japanese: “ヨルダン川西岸”
  • Japanese: “ヨルダン川西岸地区”
  • Javanese: “Gisik Kulon”
  • Javanese: “Tepi Barat”
  • Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್”
  • Kashmiri: “مَغرَبی بۆٹھ”
  • Khmer: “វ៉េសប៊ែង”
  • Khmer: “វ៉ែសបែង”
  • Komering: “Pinggir Topi”
  • Korean: “서안 지구”
  • Korean: “서안지구”
  • Korean: “요르단강 서안 지구”
  • Korean: “웨스트 뱅크”
  • Korean: “웨스트뱅크”
  • Kurdish: “Ûrdûna Roava”
  • Kurdish: “Urduna Rojava”
  • Kurdish: “Ûrdûna Rojava”
  • Lao: “ເວສຕ໌ແບັງກ໌”
  • Latin: “Cisiordania”
  • Latin: “Ripa Occidentalis Iordani”
  • Latin: “Ripa Occidentalis”
  • Latvian: “Jordānas rietumkrasts”
  • Latvian: “Rietumkrasts”
  • Latvian: “Rietumu Krasts”
  • Limburgan: “Westeleke Jordaankant”
  • Limburgan: “Westelike Jordaanover”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakarų Krantas”
  • Lombard: “Cis’giordania”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cisjordanien”
  • Luxembourgish: “Westbank”
  • Luxembourgish: “Westjordanland”
  • Macedonian: “Западен Брег”
  • Malagasy: “Jordania Andrefana”
  • Malagasy: “Jôrdania Andrefana”
  • Malay: “Tebing Barat”
  • Malay: “تبيڠ بارت”
  • Malayalam: “വെസ്റ്റ് ബാങ്ക്”
  • Maltese: “Xatt tal-Punent”
  • Manx: “Yn Broogh Heear”
  • Marathi: “वेस्ट बँक”
  • Marathi: “वेस्ट बॅंक”
  • Minangkabau: “Tapi Barat”
  • Mingrelian: “ბჟადალი წყარპიჯი”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Jenshyung Urdun”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Khwong Jenshyung”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Yahuda ma̱ng Sa̱mariya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Waastjordanlun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestbredden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestbredda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestbredden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestbreidda av Jordanelva”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestbreidda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestbreidden”
  • Norwegian: “Vestbredden”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cisjordania”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Judèa e Samària”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Westēasċora”
  • Ossetian: “Иорданы ныгуылæн былгæрон”
  • Ossetian: “Цæугæдон Иорданы Ныгуылæн Был”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੱਛਮੀ ਕੰਢਾ”
  • Persian: “کرانه باختری رود اردن”
  • Persian: “کرانهٔ باختری رود اردن”
  • Persian: “کرانه باختری”
  • Persian: “کرانه غربی رود اردن”
  • Persian: “کرانهٔ غربی رود اردن”
  • Persian: “کرانه غربی”
  • Persian: “کرانه‌ی باختری رود اردن”
  • Persian: “نوار غربی رود اردن”
  • Persian: “وست بانک”
  • Persian: “وست بنک”
  • Polish: “Cisjordania”
  • Polish: “Zachodni Brzeg Jordanu”
  • Polish: “Zachodni Brzeg”
  • Portuguese: “Cisjordânia”
  • Portuguese: “Margem ocidental do rio jordão”
  • Pushto: “لوېديځه تړانګه”
  • Romanian: “Cisiordania”
  • Romanian: “West Bank”
  • Russian: “Западный берег Иордана”
  • Russian: “Западный берег р. Иордан”
  • Russian: “Западный берег реки Иордан”
  • Russian: “Западный берег”
  • Russian: “Иудея и Самария”
  • Russian: “Цисиордания”
  • Sardinian: “Tzisgiordània”
  • Scots: “Cisjordan”
  • Scots: “Wast Bank”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bruach an Iar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bruach-an-Iar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “West Bank”
  • Serbian: “West Bank”
  • Serbian: “Западна обала”
  • Serbian: “الضفة الغربية”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cisjordanija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadna obala”
  • Sicilian: “Cisgiordania”
  • Sicilian: “Cisgiurdania”
  • Silesian: “Zachodńi Brzyg”
  • Sinhala: “බටහිර ඉවුර”
  • Slovak: “Predjordánsko”
  • Slovak: “Západný breh Jordánu”
  • Slovenian: “Cisjordanija”
  • Slovenian: “Zahodna Jordanija”
  • Slovenian: “Zahodni breg”
  • Somali: “Daanta galbeed”
  • Spanish: “Cisjordania”
  • Spanish: “Palestina”
  • Spanish: “Ribera Occidental”
  • Spanish: “Rivera Occidental”
  • Spanish: “West Bank”
  • Swahili: “Ukingo wa Magharibi wa Yordani”
  • Swedish: “Cisjordanien”
  • Swedish: “Västbanken - Gaza”
  • Swedish: “Västbanken”
  • Tagalog: “Cisjordan”
  • Tagalog: “Hudea at Samarya”
  • Tagalog: “Kanlurang Pampang ng Hordan”
  • Tagalog: “Kanlurang Pampang ng Ilog Hordan”
  • Tagalog: “Kanlurang Pampang ng Ilog Jordan”
  • Tagalog: “Kanlurang Pampang ng Jordan”
  • Tagalog: “Kanlurang Pampang”
  • Tagalog: “West Bank”
  • Tagalog: “Yehuda at Shomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yehuda v’Shomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yehuda vShomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yehudah at Shomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yehudah v’Shomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yehudah vShomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yhuda at Shomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yhuda v’Shomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yhuda vShomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yhudah at Shomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yhudah v’Shomron”
  • Tagalog: “Yhudah vShomron”
  • Tamil: “மேற்கு பேங்க்”
  • Tamil: “மேற்குக் கரை”
  • Tatar: “Үрдүн елгасының Көнбатыш яры”
  • Telugu: “వెస్ట్ బ్యాంక్”
  • Thai: “เขตเวสต์แบงก์”
  • Thai: “เวสต์แบงก์”
  • Thai: “เวสต์แบงค์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Westjordanland”
  • Turkish: “Batı Şeria”
  • Tyap: “Khwong Jenshyung”
  • Ukrainian: “Західний берег річки Йордан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Zapadny brjóh Jordana”
  • Urdu: “مغربی کنارہ”
  • Uzbek: “Iordan daryosining Gʻarbiy sohili”
  • Veps: “Jordan-jogen Päivlaskmaine rand”
  • Vietnamese: “Bờ Tây sông Jordan”
  • Vietnamese: “Bờ Tây”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu Bờ Tây”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây ngạn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “West Bank”
  • Welsh: “Glan Orllewinol”
  • Welsh: “Lan Orllewinol”
  • Welsh: “Llain gorllewinol”
  • Welsh: “Llain Orllewinol”
  • Welsh: “y Lan Orllewinol”
  • Welsh: “Y Lan Orllewinol”
  • Western Frisian: “Sisjordaanje”
  • Western Frisian: “Westjordaanlân”
  • Western Panjabi: “مغربی کنارا”
  • Wu Chinese: “约旦河西岸”
  • Wu Chinese: “西岸地区”
  • Yiddish: “יהודה ושומרון”
  • Yiddish: “מערב ברעג”
  • Yiddish: “פארנומענע געביטן”
  • Yoruba: “Bèbè Ìlàòrùn”
  • Yoruba: “West Bank”
  • Yue Chinese: “西岸地區”
  • Zeeuws: “Westelijke Jordaonoever”
  • “pini suno pi nasin telo Utun”

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