Yerucham
Yeruham is a town in the Southern District of Israel, in the Negev desert. It covers 38,584 dunams, and had a population of 11,989 in 2024. It is named after the Biblical Jeroham.- Type: Town with 10,000 residents
- Description: Local Council in Palestine 🇵🇸
- Also known as: “Kefar Yeroham”, “Kfar Yeroham”, “Yeroham”, and “Yeruham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Desert Iris.
Yerucham
- Categories: human settlement, local council in Israel, and locality
- Location: Southern District, Negev, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.9888° or 30° 59′ 20″ north
Longitude
34.9251° or 34° 55′ 30″ east
Population
10,000
Elevation
499 metres (1,637 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL YAM
Open location code
8G2PXWQG+G2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Yerucham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يروحام”
- Basque: “Yeruham”
- Breton: “Yerouham”
- Catalan: “Jeroham”
- Catalan: “Yeruham”
- Cebuano: “Yeroẖam”
- Croatian: “Jeruham”
- Czech: “Jerucham”
- Dutch: “Jerocham”
- Dutch: “Yeruham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يروحام”
- Esperanto: “Jeruĥam”
- Finnish: “Yeruham”
- French: “Yeruham”
- German: “Jerocham”
- German: “Yeroham”
- German: “Yeruham”
- Hebrew: “ירוחם”
- Hebrew: “ירחם”
- Hindi: “येरोहाम”
- Irish: “Yeruham”
- Italian: “Yeruham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yeruham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yeruham”
- Norwegian: “Yeruham”
- Polish: “Jerocham”
- Polish: “Yeruham”
- Romanian: “Yeruham”
- Russian: “Йерохам”
- Russian: “Йерухам”
- Serbian: “Јерухам”
- Spanish: “Yeruham”
- Swedish: “Yeroẖam”
- Turkish: “Yeruham”
- Ukrainian: “Єрохам”
- Ukrainian: “Єрухам”
- Urdu: “یرحم”
- Vietnamese: “Yeruham”
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