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Place details
- Locality
- بيت لاهيا
- Region
- قطاع غزة
- Country
- الأراضي الفلسطينية
- Population
- 56,919
- Timezone
- Asia/Gaza
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Arabic
- بيت لاهيا
- Latin
- Bayt Lahiya (official )
- Palestine grid
- 102/106
- State
- State of Palestine
- Governorate
- North Gaza
- Type
- City
- Control
- Israel
- Head of municipality
- Izz al-Din al-Dahnoun
- Total
- 89,838
- Name meaning
- House of Lahi
- Website
- www.bietlahia.mun.ps
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- North Gaza Governorate
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Arabic
- Population
- 3000
- Elevation
- 33
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Image
- Images of war 23-25 from Gaza, by Jaber Badwen, IMG 6179.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Padang
- different from
- Beit Lahia
- Commons category
- Beit Lahia
- native label
- بيت لاهيا
- P12749
- Serge Gainsbourg
- P8168
- Dallet
- vocalized name
- بَيْتُ لَاهْيَا
- located on street
- Salah al-Din Road
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Beit Lahia or Beit Lahiya (Arabic: بيت لاهيا) is a city in the Gaza Strip, north of Jabalia, in the North Gaza Governorate of the State of Palestine. It sits next to Beit Hanoun and close to the border with Israel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the city had a population of 89,838 in 2017.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beit Lahia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.