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Qibya

Qibya is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 30 kilometers (19 mi) northwest of Ramallah and exactly north of the large Israeli city of Modi'in.

Qibya
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The place

Qibya is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 30 kilometers (19 mi) northwest of Ramallah and exactly north of the large Israeli city of Modi'in. It is part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 6,090 in 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Qibya

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
    Shuqba cave

    Shuqba Cave is an archaeological site in Wadi Natuf near the town of Shuqba in the West Bank, Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, Palestine. The cave is the type-site for the prehistoric Natufian culture.

    3.2 km · cave and archaeological site in the West Bank · 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 Qibya

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 12 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 93 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 97 km
  • Eilat → Qibya
    270 km · quickest by road, 6h · ₪115–155
  • Amman → Qibya
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · JD5–6
  • El Arish → Qibya
    149 km · quickest by road, 4h 53m · E£375–500
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Qibya

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 Qibya. 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

    189 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    270 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    681 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,040 km

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

Around it

Next door to Qibya

Qibya is 24 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ni'linmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate3.6 km
  • Shuqbavillage in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, State of Palestine2.9 km
  • Budrusmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate1.9 km
  • NiliIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3.9 km
  • Shabtinmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, State of Palestine3.8 km