Beit Shemesh
Beit Shemesh is a city in the Shfela region of Israel, with a population of 119,000. Excluding the West Bank, Beit Shemesh is the closest city to Jerusalem.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Beit Shemesh Railway Station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beit Shemesh railway station is an Israel Railways station in Beit Shemesh, Israel, on the Tel Aviv–Lod–Jerusalem line.
Biblical Museum of Natural History
The Biblical Museum of Natural History, currently located in Hartuv at the entrance to Beit Shemesh, Israel, was founded in 2014 by Rabbi Dr.Tel Beit Shemesh
Photo: עט הזמיר, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tel Beit Shemesh is a small archaeological tell northeast of the modern city of Beit Shemesh.
Localities in the Area
Zanoah
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zanoah is a moshav in central Israel. Located adjacent to Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.
Tzora
Tzora is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located about 20 km from Jerusalem, near the city of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.Yish'i
Photo: Owenglyndur, CC BY 4.0.
Yish'i is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.
Beit Shemesh
- Type: City with 79,000 residents
- Description: city in Israel
- Categories: tell, city council, big city and locality
- Location: Jerusalem District, Shfelah, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.7462° or 31° 44' 46" northLongitude
34.9887° or 34° 59' 19" eastPopulation
79,000Elevation
282 metres (925 feet)United Nations Location Code
IL BSEOpen Location Code
8G3PPXWQ+FFOpenStreetMap ID
node 316019781OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
295432Wikidata ID
Q152449Beit Shemesh Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Beit Shemesh
- Arabic: Beit Shemesh
- Arabic: بيت شيمش
- Armenian: Բեյթ Շեմեշ
- Asturian: Beit Shemesh
- Basque: Beit Shemesh
- Catalan: Bait Shemesh
- Catalan: Bet Shemesh
- Catalan: Betxèmeix
- Cebuano: Bet Shemesh
- Chechen: Бейт-Шемеш
- Chinese: 貝特謝梅什
- Chinese: 贝特谢梅什
- Czech: Bejt Šemeš
- Czech: Bet Šemeš
- Dutch: Beit Shemesh
- Dutch: Bet Shemesh
- Dutch: Beth Shemesh
- Egyptian Arabic: بيت شيمش
- English: Bet Shemesh
- Esperanto: Beit Shemesh
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- Finnish: Bet Shemesh
- French: Beit Shemesh
- French: Bet Shemesh
- French: Beït-Shemesh
- Georgian: ბეით-შემეში
- Georgian: ბეით შემეში
- German: Beit Schemesch
- German: Beit Shemesh
- German: Bet Schemesch
- German: Bet Shemesh
- Greek: Βαιθσαμυς
- Greek: Μπέιτ Σεμές
- Hebrew: בית שמש
- Hebrew: מעברת הרטוב
- Hebrew: רמת בית שמש
- Hindi: बेथ शेमेश
- Hungarian: Bét Semes
- Indonesian: Bet-Semes
- Irish: Beit Shemesh
- Italian: Bet Shemesh
- Japanese: ベト・シェメシュ
- Javanese: Beit Shemesh
- Korean: 베이트 셰메시
- Korean: 베이트셰메시
- Ladino: Bet Shemesh
- Norwegian: Beit Shemesh
- Norwegian Bokmål: Beit Shemesh
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Beit Shemesh
- Persian: بیت شمش
- Polish: Beit Szemesz
- Polish: Bet Shemesh
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- Portuguese: Beit Shemesh
- Portuguese: Bet Shemesh
- Portuguese: Bete-Semes
- Romanian: Beit Şemeș
- Romanian: Beit şemeş
- Romanian: Beit Șemeș
- Russian: Бейт-Шемеш
- Russian: Бет-Шемеш
- Russian: Вефсамис
- Scots: Beit Shemesh
- Serbian: Bet Schemesch
- Serbian: Bet Šemeš
- Serbian: Бет Шемеш
- Serbian: בית שמש
- Spanish: Beit Shemesh
- Spanish: Bet Shemesh
- Spanish: Bet shemesh
- Swahili: Beit Shemesh
- Swedish: Beit Shemesh
- Swedish: Bet Shemesh
- Tagalog: Beit Shemesh
- Turkish: Beit Shemesh
- Turkish: Beyt Şemeş
- Ukrainian: Бейт-Шемеш
- Ukrainian: Бет-Шемеш
- Urdu: بیت شمس
- Venetian: Bet Shemesh
- Vietnamese: Beit Shemesh
- Waray (Philippines): Beit Shemesh
- Yiddish: בית שמש
- Beit-Shemesh
- Maabarat Hartuv
Other Places Named Beit Shemesh
Localities in the Area
- Beit ShemeshLocality
- Ramat Moshe - Old Beit ShemeshQuarter
- Pisgat Hashiva (Migdal HaMaim)Neighbourhood
- Neve SapirNeighbourhood
- Kiryat Arye SheinfeldQuarter
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