Rafah
Rafah | |
|---|---|
| Ither transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | رَفَح |
| • Ebreu | רָפִיחַ |
 Rafah on 3 Julie 2010 | |
 Location o Rafah in the Gaza Strip | |
  Rafah Location o Rafah within the Palestinian territories | |
| Coordinates: 31°17′19″N 34°15′07″E / 31.28861°N 34.25194°ECoordinates: 31°17′19″N 34°15′07″E / 31.28861°N 34.25194°E | |
| Palestine grid | 77/78 |
| Govrenorate | Rafah |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Ceety |
| • Heid o Municipality | Sa'ad Zoarub |
| Population (2014)[1] | |
| • Jurisdiction | 152,950 |
Rafah (Arabic: رفح), kent an aw as Rafiah, is a Palestinian ceety in the soothren Gaza Strip. Locatit 30 kilometer (19 mi) sooth o Gaza, Rafah's population of 152,950 (2014) is owerwhelmingly made up o Palestinian refugees. Rafah camp and Tall as-Sultan camp form separate localities.Rafah camp an Tall as-Sultan form separate localities. Rafah is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate. Yasser Arafat International Airport, Gaza's anerlie airport, is locatit juist sooth o the ceety. Rafah is the steid o the Rafah Border Crossin, the anerlie crossin atween the Gaza Strip an Egyp.
Etymology
[eedit | eedit soorce]Ower the ages it haes been kent as "Robihwa" bi the auncient Egyptians, "Rafihu" bi the Assiries, "Ῥαφία, Rhaphia"[2] bi the Greeks, "Raphia" bi Romans, "Raphiaḥ" [pronooncit Rafiach] bi the Israelites, "Rafh" bi the Arab Caliphate.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics". Retrieved 15 Februar 2018.
- ↑ Polybii Historiae [5,80].
