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Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya

Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, 20 kilometers south of Nablus, in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine.

Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya
Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, 20 kilometers south of Nablus, in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine. The town has a total land area of 12,075 dunams of which 200 dunams is built-up area. The village is just north of the historic Khan al-Lubban caravansary.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Khirbet el-Qutt

    Khirbet el-Qutt is an archaeological site occupied from the Early Bronze Age through the Byzantine and Early Muslim periods. The site is located on and around a hill between the present-day village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya and Israeli settlement Ma'ale Levona.

    900 m · archaeological site in the West Bank · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    khirbet a-Shuna

    Khirbet esh-Shuna is an archaeological site in the central West Bank, just south of Deir 'Ammar. It lies on a flat hilltop above the spring of 'Ayn Ayyub and covers approximately 40 dunams.

    3.7 km · archeological site · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 34 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 72 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 81 km
  • Eilat → Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya
    281 km · quickest by road, 6h 26m · ₪115–150
  • Amman → Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya
    67 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · JD4.5–6
  • El Arish → Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya
    173 km · quickest by road, 5h 21m · E£410–550
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundHitchhiking (Tremp) Ariel is long and narrow (it follows the crest of a long mountain ridge), so it could be a long walk from one part to another.
  • Go nextHitch a ride, or take Palestinian licence-plated taxi, from Ariel Junction to Nablus.

From Wikivoyage: Ariel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    195 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    278 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    690 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,052 km

If you know how people move in Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya

Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya is 32 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Iskakavillage council in Salfit Governorate3.9 km
  • RehelimIsraeli settlement in the occupied West Bank3.8 km
  • Yasufvillage council in Salfit Governorate4 km
  • Ma'ale LevonaIsraeli settlement in the West Bank1.9 km
  • As-Sawiyavillage council in Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine2.2 km
  • AsifIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3 km