Ashkelon
Ashkelon or Ashqelon Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן Arabic عسقلان ˁAsqalān; is a city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, 50 km to the south of Tel Aviv.Photo: Wikipod, Public domain.
Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Barzilai Medical Center
Photo: Eman, Public domain.
Barzilai Medical Center is a 600-bed district general hospital in Ashkelon, Israel opened in 1961.
Shikma Prison
Shikma Prison is an Israeli prison located in Ashkelon.There are many Palestinian prisoners there including the engineer Dirar Abu Sisi who was kidnapped in Ukraine in February 2011.Localities in the Area
Ashkelon
- Type: City with 144,000 residents
- Description: city in Israel
- Categories: administrative territorial entity, big city and locality
- Location: Southern District, Israeli Coastal Plain, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.6645° or 31° 39' 52" northLongitude
34.573° or 34° 34' 23" eastPopulation
144,000Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)United Nations Location Code
IL AKLOpen Location Code
8G3PMH7F+Q6OpenStreetMap ID
node 278476881OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
295620Wikidata ID
Q60956Ashkelon Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Ashkelon
- Arabic: Ashkelon
- Arabic: أشقلون
- Arabic: أشكلون
- Arabic: اشقلون
- Arabic: اشكلون
- Arabic: المجدل
- Arabic: المجدل عسقلان
- Arabic: عسقلان
- Armenian: Աշկելոն
- Asturian: Ashkelon
- Azerbaijani: Aşkelon
- Basque: Ascalon
- Basque: Askalon
- Basque: Axkelon
- Belarusian: Ашкелон
- Bengali: আশকেলন
- Bengali: আসকালান
- Bulgarian: Ашкелон
- Catalan: Al-Majdal
- Catalan: Ascaló
- Catalan: Ashkelon
- Catalan: Ashqelon
- Catalan: Migdal
- Cebuano: Ashqelon
- Chinese: 亚实基伦
- Chinese: 亞實基倫
- Chinese: 阿什克隆
- Chinese: 阿什凯隆
- Croatian: Ashkelon
- Croatian: Aškelon
- Czech: Askalon
- Czech: Aškalon
- Czech: Aškelon
- Danish: Ashkelon
- Danish: Askhelon
- Dimli (individual language): Eşkelon
- Dutch: Ascalon
- Dutch: Ashkalon
- Dutch: Ashqelon
- Dutch: Asjkelon
- Dutch: Askelon
- Dutch: Asqelon
- Egyptian Arabic: عسقلان
- English: Ascalon
- English: Ashqelon
- English: Ashquelon
- Esperanto: Aŝkelon
- Esperanto: Aŝkelono
- Estonian: Ashkelon
- Estonian: Ashqelon
- Estonian: Askelon
- Finnish: Ashkelon
- Finnish: Askalon
- Finnish: Askelon
- Finnish: Askhelon
- French: Ascalon
- French: Ashkalon
- French: Ashkelon
- French: Ashkélon
- French: Ashqalon
- Galician: Ascalón
- Georgian: აშკელონი
- German: Aschkalon
- German: Aschkelon
- German: Ashkelon
- German: Ashqelon
- German: Askalon
- German: Askelon
- Greek: Ασκάλων
- Greek: Ασκαλών
- Greek: Ασκελόν
- Gujarati: એસ્કેલોન
- Hebrew: אַשְׁקְלוֹן
- Hebrew: אשקלון
- Hindi: अश्कलोन
- Hungarian: Askelón
- Indonesian: Ashkelon
- Indonesian: Ashqelon
- Indonesian: Askelon
- Irish: Ashkelon
- Italian: Ascalon
- Italian: Ascalona
- Italian: Ashkelon
- Italian: Ashqelon
- Italian: Parco nazionale di Ashkelon
- Italian: ʿAsqalān
- Japanese: アシュケロン
- Kannada: ಅಶ್ಕೆಲಾನ್
- Korean: 아슈켈론
- Ladino: Ashkelon
- Latvian: Aškelona
- Latvian: Ašketona
- Lithuanian: Aškelonas
- Lombard: Ascalon
- Lombard: Ascalun
- Lombard: Ashkelon
- Macedonian: Ашкелон
- Malay: Ashqelon
- Malay: Asqalan
- Manx: Ashkelon
- Marathi: अशकलॉन
- Mingrelian: აშკელონი
- Mingrelian: აშქელონი, ასკალონი
- Moksha: Ашкэлон
- Norwegian: Ashkelon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ascalon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ashkelon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ashqelon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ashkelon
- Occitan (post 1500): Ashkelon
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܫܩܠܘܢ
- Persian: اشکلون
- Persian: عسقلان
- Polish: Askalon
- Polish: Aszkalon
- Polish: Aszkelon
- Portuguese: Ahskelon
- Portuguese: Ascalom
- Portuguese: Ascalon
- Portuguese: Ascalão
- Portuguese: Ashkelon
- Portuguese: Asquelom
- Romanian: Aşkelon
- Romanian: Așkelon
- Russian: Аскалан
- Russian: Аскалон
- Russian: Ашкелон
- Russian: Эль-Маджаль
- Scots: Ashkelon
- Serbian: Ашкелон
- Serbian: אשקלון
- Serbo-Croatian: Ashkelon
- Serbo-Croatian: Ashqelon
- Serbo-Croatian: Askalon
- Serbo-Croatian: Askelón
- Serbo-Croatian: Aškelon
- Sinhala: අශ්කෙලෝන්
- Slovenian: Aškelon
- Somali: Casqalaan
- Spanish: Ascalon
- Spanish: Ascalón
- Spanish: Ashkalon
- Spanish: Ashkalón
- Spanish: Ashkelon
- Spanish: Ashkelón
- Spanish: Ashqelon
- Spanish: Askalun
- Spanish: Askalún
- Spanish: Askelon
- Spanish: Askelón
- Spanish: Senorio de Ascalon
- Spanish: Senorio de Ascalón
- Spanish: Senorío de Ascalon
- Spanish: Senorío de Ascalón
- Spanish: Señorio de Ascalon
- Spanish: Señorio de Ascalón
- Spanish: Señorío de Ascalon
- Swahili: Ashkelon
- Swedish: Ashkelon
- Swedish: Askalon
- Swedish: Askelon
- Tagalog: Ashkelon
- Tamil: ஆஷிகேலோன்
- Telugu: అష్కేలోన్
- Thai: อัชเกล็อน
- Thai: อัชเคลอน
- Turkish: Aşkelon
- Ukrainian: Аскалон
- Ukrainian: Ашкелон
- Urdu: اشقلون
- Urdu: عسقلان
- Venetian: Ascalona
- Venetian: Ashkelon
- Vietnamese: Ashkelon
- Waray (Philippines): Ashkelon
- Welsh: Ashkelon
- Wu Chinese: 亚实基伦
- Yiddish: אשקלון
- Al Majdal
- El Majdal
- El Medjdel
- Majdal
- Majdal ‘Asqalān
- Migdal Ascalon
- Migdal Ashqelon
- Migdal Gad
Other Places Named Ashkelon
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Ashkelon. Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 3.0.