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Baqa ash-Sharqiyya

Baqa ash-Sharqiyya is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, located 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) northeast of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate.

The place

Baqa ash-Sharqiyya is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, located 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) northeast of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 4,892 inhabitants in 2017. Refugees made up 20.4% of the Baqa ash-Sharqiyya's population in 1997.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Baqa ash-Sharqiyya

One place 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
    Al-Qasemi Academic College

    The Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education is an academic college located in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in the Haifa District in Israel. The College was founded in 1989 as a college for Sharia and Islamic Studies, is authorized by the Council for Higher Education in Israel and specializes in the following fields: Islamic Studies, Arabic Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Mathematics and Computers in the elementary and secondary tracks, Early Childhood Education track, Special Education track.

    3.5 km · Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education · Wikipedia

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Getting to Baqa ash-Sharqiyya

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 48 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 100 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 116 km
  • Tel Aviv → Baqa ash-Sharqiyya
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · ₪19–25
  • Eilat → Baqa ash-Sharqiyya
    317 km · quickest by road, 6h 41m · ₪125–170
  • Amman → Baqa ash-Sharqiyya
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · JD6–8
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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 Baqa ash-Sharqiyya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    235 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    317 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    438 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    653 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,017 km

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Next door to Baqa ash-Sharqiyya

Baqa ash-Sharqiyya is 46 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.