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Sarta

Sarta is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 22 kilometers southwest of Nablus.

Sarta
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The place

Sarta is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 22 kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 3,382 in 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sarta

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
    Khirbet Kurkush

    Khirbet Kurkush is an archeological site in the West Bank. It lies between the Israeli settlements of Bruchin and Ariel and near the Palestinian town of Bruqin, in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine.

    3 km · Archaeological site in the West Bank, Palestine · 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 Sarta

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 22 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 86 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 95 km
  • Eilat → Sarta
    283 km · quickest by road, 6h 12m · ₪120–155
  • Amman → Sarta
    82 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · JD5–7
  • El Arish → Sarta
    164 km · quickest by road, 5h 5m · E£385–510
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sarta

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 Sarta. 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

    201 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    283 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    405 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    677 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,038 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sarta

Sarta is 29 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • BiddyaPalestinian town in Salfit Governorate1.6 km
  • Kiryat NetafimIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2.6 km
  • RevavaIsraeli settlement in the West Bank4 km
  • BarkanIsraeli settlement in the West Bank1.5 km
  • BrukhinIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2.7 km
  • Qarawat Bani HassanPalestinian town in Salfit Governorate2.8 km