Qira, Salfit
Qira is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 19 kilometers southwest of Nablus.

Qira is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 19 kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 1,278 in 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Qira, Salfit
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.
- 01Ariel University
Ariel University, previously a public college known as the Ariel University Center of Samaria, is an Israeli university located in the urban Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. The college was founded in 1982 as a regional branch of Bar-Ilan University and was originally located in the settlement of Kedumim, After moving to a larger campus in Ariel, it became the largest Israeli public college.
4 km · Israeli University in Ariel, Israel · Wikipedia - 02Khirbat ash-Shajara
Khirbat ash-Shajara is an archaeological site in Samaria, West Bank. It is situated between the Palestinian city of Salfit and the Israeli settlement and city of Ariel.
3.1 km · archaeological site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Qira, Salfit
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 30 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 79 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 89 km
- Eilat → Qira, SalfitTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Amman → Qira, SalfitTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- El Arish → Qira, SalfitTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Qira, Salfit
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 Qira, Salfit. 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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Next door to Qira, Salfit
Qira, Salfit is 37 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- ArielIsraeli settlement in the occupied West Bank2.3 km
- Jamma'inmunicipality in Nablus2.9 km
- Timnath-heresancient city in modern Palestine1.4 km
- Harisvillage council in Salfit Governorate3 km
- Kifl Harisvillage council in Salfit Governorate1.4 km
- Deir Istiyatown in Salfit Governorate3.1 km