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Qira, Salfit

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

Qira, Salfit
Qira, Salfit · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Ariel 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
  2. 02
    Khirbat 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

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 Qira, Salfit

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 30 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 79 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 89 km
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    408 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    681 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,043 km

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Around it

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