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Biddya

Biddya is a Palestinian city in the Salfit Governorate, located 32 kilometers southwest of Nablus and half that distance from Salfit in the northern West Bank.

Biddya
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The place

Biddya is a Palestinian city in the Salfit Governorate, located 32 kilometers southwest of Nablus and half that distance from Salfit in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Biddya had a population of 10,451 in 2017. The town is governed by a municipal council of eleven members who each represent the prominent families of Biddya and select a mayor.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Biddya

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
    Sanniriya Mosque

    Sanniriya Mosque is a mosque located in the center of the village of Sanniriya in the Qalqilya Governorate in the West Bank, Palestine. It is considered one of the archaeological and historical landmarks of the Qalqilya Governorate.

    3.3 km · A historic mosque in the Qalqilya Governorate · 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.

Go there

Getting to Biddya

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 21 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 88 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 97 km
  • Eilat → Biddya
    5493 km · quickest by air, 13h 28m · ₪3,070–4,760
  • Amman → Biddya
    84 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · JD5–7
  • El Arish → Biddya
    5582 km · quickest by air, 11h 45m · E£23,900–37,050
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Biddya

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 Biddya. 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

    202 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    284 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    406 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    676 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,036 km

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

Around it

Next door to Biddya

Biddya is 28 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Etz EfraimIsraeli settlement in the occupied West Bank3 km
  • Kiryat NetafimIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3.4 km
  • Mas-haPalestinian village located in an enclave in the occupied West Bank2.5 km
  • Sartavillage council in Salfit Governorate1.6 km
  • BarkanIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2.8 km
  • BrukhinIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3.8 km