Barkan
Barkan is an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank, about 8 km west of the Palestinian city of Salfit, under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council.
Barkan is an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank, about 8 km west of the Palestinian city of Salfit, under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council. In 2024 its population was 2,171.
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Worth seeing in and around Barkan
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.
- 01Khirbet Kurkush
Khirbet Kurkush is an archeological site in the West Bank. It lies between the Israeli settlements of Bruchin and Ariel and near the Palestinian town of Bruqin, in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine.
2.4 km · Archaeological site in the West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia
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Getting to Barkan
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 23 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 85 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 94 km
- Eilat → Barkan284 km · quickest by road, 6h 6m · ₪120–160
- Amman → Barkan81 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · JD5–7
- El Arish → Barkan165 km · quickest by road, 4h 59m · E£395–520
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Barkan
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 Barkan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Barkan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Barkan
Barkan is 31 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.