Municipality type C in Nablus, State of Palestine

Qabalan

Qabalan is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located 19 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Nablus.

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Eilat → Qabalan
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Amman → Qabalan
64 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · JD4.5–6
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The field note

What is in and around Qabalan, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Qabalan has

YScheduled flightsTel Aviv (TLV), 39 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Nablus, 14 km.

32.102°, 35.288°

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 8,195 inhabitants in 2017.

How locals move

Getting around Qabalan the local way

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. Last edited 2025-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: יעקב (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.