Zawātā
Zawata is a town in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, Palestine, located 6 kilometers northwest of Nablus.
Zawata is a town in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, Palestine, located 6 kilometers northwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,537 inhabitants in 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Zawātā
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.
- 01An-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.
3.3 km · University in State of Palestine · Wikipedia - 02Nablus Football Stadium
The Nablus Football Stadium is a football stadium in Nablus, Palestine. It has a capacity of 30,000.
3.3 km · football stadium in Nablus, Palestine · Wikipedia
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Getting to Zawātā
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 41 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 78 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 93 km
- Tel Aviv → Zawātā46 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · ₪19–26
- Amman → Zawātā75 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · JD5–7
- Beirut → Zawātā185 km · quickest by road, 6h 3m · $30–41
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No local-transport research exists yet for Zawātā
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 Zawātā. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Zawātā
Zawātā is 46 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- An-Naquravillage council in Nablus Governorate3.2 km
- Ijnisinyavillage council in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine3.2 km
- Deir Sharafvillage council in Nablus3.7 km