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Beit Liqya

Beit Liqya is a Palestinian town located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank.

Beit Liqya
Beit Liqya · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Beit Liqya is a Palestinian town located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 9,304 in 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Beit Liqya

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
    Bareket observatory

    The Bareket Observatory is an astronomical educational observatory owned and operated by the Bareket family. It is located east of the city of Maccabim, near Modiin, in central Israel.

    3.9 km · observatory in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel · 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 Beit Liqya

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 23 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 88 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 89 km
  • Eilat → Beit Liqya
    258 km · quickest by road, 5h 48m · ₪115–150
  • Amman → Beit Liqya
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · JD4.5–6
  • El Arish → Beit Liqya
    146 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · E£365–485
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Beit Liqya

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 Beit Liqya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundYou are almost always advised to use Shared Taxis which will be quicker although marginally more expensive.
  • Get aroundBuses, like shared taxis will also tend to wait until full before departing.
  • Get aroundMost shared taxis have fixed bus-stations, often car-parks near the centre of towns or cities.
  • Get aroundLarger minivans carry 7 passengers and inner-city shared taxis carry 4.
  • Get aroundShared taxis are often distinguished with black stripes on front and back at the sides, particularly the normal-sized cars serving inner-city routes.

From Wikivoyage: Palestinian territories, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    176 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    257 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    379 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    694 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,051 km

If you know how people move in Beit Liqya – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Beit Liqya

Beit Liqya is 17 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Mevo HoronIsraeli settlement in Emek Ayalon3.7 km
  • Beit Siravillage council in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate3 km
  • Beit Ur al-Tahtamunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate3.3 km
  • Bayt Nubavillage in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine3.8 km
  • Kharbatha al-Misbahvillage council in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate1.9 km
  • Nitafvillage in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine3.6 km