Qabalān
Qabalan is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located 19 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Nablus.
Qabalan is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located 19 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 8,195 inhabitants in 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Qabalān
2 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.
- 01Mount Sabih
Mount Sabih is a mountain located between 3 Palestinian villages, Qabalan, Yatma and Beita, south of Nablus. Mount Sabih has several peaks, the highest most southern of which was occupied in May 2021 by settlers who established an illegal Israeli outpost named Evyatar.
2.3 km · Mountain in Nablus · Wikipedia - 02khirbet a-Shuna
Khirbet esh-Shuna is an archaeological site in the central West Bank, just south of Deir 'Ammar. It lies on a flat hilltop above the spring of 'Ayn Ayyub and covers approximately 40 dunams.
1.9 km · archeological site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Qabalān
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 39 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 68 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 79 km
- Amman → Qabalān64 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · JD4.5–6
- El Arish → Qabalān178 km · quickest by road, 5h 20m · E£415–550
- Damascus → Qabalān182 km · quickest by road, 4h 57m · $22–31
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No local-transport research exists yet for Qabalān
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 Qabalān. 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 Qabalān – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Qabalān
Qabalān is 36 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Jurishvillage council in Nablus3.2 km
- RehelimIsraeli settlement in the occupied West Bank2.9 km
- Qaryutvillage in the Nablus Governorate3.5 km
- Yatmavillage council in Nablus2 km
- As-Sawiyavillage council in Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine3.4 km
- Talfit, Nablusvillage council in Nablus Governorate1.5 km