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Iktaba

Iktaba is a Palestinian town located four kilometers Northeast of the city of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northern West Bank.

The place

Iktaba is a Palestinian town located four kilometers Northeast of the city of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,665 inhabitants in 2007 and 2,997 by 2017. Refugees make-up 33% of the entire population in 1997.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Iktaba

3 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
    Church of Saint George (Tulkarm)

    The Church of Saint George it is a historic Christian Orthodox church located in Tulkarm, West Bank, Palestine. Its dedicated to Saint George.

    2.9 km · Historic church in the West Bank in the State of Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tulkarm Museum

    Tulkarm Museum is a Palestinian archaeological and cultural heritage museum, established in 1996 by Tulkarm Municipality and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. It is located in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank.

    2.6 km · Central Museum of Archaeology in the State of Palestine · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Palestine Technical University

    Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie is an agricultural college located in Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank, Palestine. The college was inaugurated in 1930 after the British Government had received a bequest from the Iraqi-born Jewish philanthropist Sir Ellis Kadoorie.

    3.5 km · Palestinian Governmental University · 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 Iktaba

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 38 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 97 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 111 km
  • Eilat → Iktaba
    308 km · quickest by road, 6h 17m · ₪120–165
  • Amman → Iktaba
    94 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · JD6–9
  • Beirut → Iktaba
    180 km · quickest by road, 6h 3m · $30–41
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Iktaba

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 Iktaba. 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

    226 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    308 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    429 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    658 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,021 km

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

Around it

Next door to Iktaba

Iktaba is 37 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.