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Tell, Nablus

Tell, pronounced Till, is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Nablus.

Tell, Nablus
Tell, Nablus · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tell, pronounced Till, is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 5,162 inhabitants in 2017. Most of the town's laborers work in agriculture, with figs and olives being the major source of income.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tell, Nablus

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
    An-Najah National University

    An-Najah National University is a non-governmental public university governed by a board of trustees in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. The university has 22,000 students and 300 professors in 19 faculties.

    3.7 km · University in State of Palestine · Wikipedia

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Getting to Tell, Nablus

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 37 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 78 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 91 km
  • Eilat → Tell, Nablus
    295 km · quickest by road, 6h 26m · ₪125–165
  • Amman → Tell, Nablus
    74 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · JD5–7
  • Damascus → Tell, Nablus
    177 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · $22–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tell, Nablus

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 Tell, Nablus. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Ben Gurion it is cheapest to take a "sherut" (shared taxi) to the bus station on Nablus Road by Damascus Gate, and then follow the directions above to Nablus.
  • Go nextShared minibus taxis (sherut/servees) leaving Nablus tend to congregate around the center of town and along the two-sided Al-Gazalah (Al-Hadadeen) Street going southeast out of town.
  • Go nextTo get there by hitchhiking, take a sherut to Tubas (₪7.50) and from there hitchhike east through Tayasir and Aqabah to the highway #578 or #90, and then north past the Israeli checkpoint.

From Wikivoyage: Nablus, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    210 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    293 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    417 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    678 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,042 km

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Around it

Next door to Tell, Nablus

Tell, Nablus is 43 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.