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Ţūlkarm

Tulkarm or Tulkarem is a city in the West Bank, Palestine and the capital of the Tulkarm Governorate.

Ţūlkarm
Ţūlkarm · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tulkarm or Tulkarem is a city in the West Bank, Palestine and the capital of the Tulkarm Governorate. Netanya is to the west in Israel, while Nablus and Jenin are to the east. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2017 Tulkarm had a population of 64,532. Tulkarm is under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ţūlkarm

4 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
    Church of Saint George (Tulkarm)

    The Church of Saint George it is a historic Christian Orthodox church located in Tulkarm, West Bank, Palestine. Its dedicated to Saint George.

    0 m · Historic church in the West Bank in the State of Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Khirbet Samara

    Khirbet Samara is an archaeological site located in the West Bank. It lies near the Israeli settlement of Einav, 9 km east of Taibe.

    9.1 km · archaeological site in the West Bank · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tulkarm Museum

    Tulkarm Museum is a Palestinian archaeological and cultural heritage museum, established in 1996 by Tulkarm Municipality and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. It is located in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank.

    200 m · Central Museum of Archaeology in the State of Palestine · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Palestine Technical University

    Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie is an agricultural college located in Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank, Palestine. The college was inaugurated in 1930 after the British Government had received a bequest from the Iraqi-born Jewish philanthropist Sir Ellis Kadoorie.

    800 m · Palestinian Governmental University · 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Tulkarm Archaeological Museum

    Paris Street (in front of the town hall).

  2. 02
    Church of Saint George

From Wikivoyage: Ţūlkarm, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Mega Land ‎(ميجا لاند), an amusement park.

From Wikivoyage: Ţūlkarm, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Ţūlkarm

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 36 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 98 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 112 km
Stations
Shomron–Tayyiba Railway Station, 4.6 km
  • Amman → Ţūlkarm
    95 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · JD7–9
  • Beirut → Ţūlkarm
    181 km · quickest by road, 6h 6m · $30–41
  • El Arish → Ţūlkarm
    176 km · quickest by road, 5h 5m · E£400–530
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ţūlkarm

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 Ţūlkarm. 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

    225 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    307 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    427 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    657 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,020 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ţūlkarm

Ţūlkarm is 35 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.