Qaffin

Qaffin () is a Palestinian town located northeast of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northwestern West Bank. The town is an agricultural town. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, its population consisted over 8,387 inhabitants in 2007 and 10,690 in 2017. The built-up area of the town is 1,000 dunams.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Qaffin
Settlement.translit_lang1: Arabic
Settlement.translit_lang1_type: Arabic
Settlement.translit_lang1_info: قفّين
Settlement.translit_lang1_type1: Latin
Settlement.translit_lang1_info1: Qaffein (official)
Settlement.type: Municipality type B
Settlement.image_skyline: File:3شارع رئيسي في القرية.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Qaffin, 2011
Settlement.pushpin_map: Palestine
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Qaffin within Palestine
Settlement.grid_name: Palestine grid
Settlement.grid_position: 158/204
Settlement.subdivision_type: State
Settlement.subdivision_name: State of Palestine
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Tulkarm
Settlement.established_title: Founded

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: town
Official name: قَفِّين
Country: Palestine
Located in: Tulkarm Governorate
Population: 11780
Elevation: 125
Time zone: UTC+03:00
Image: 3شارع رئيسي في القرية.jpg

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Commons category: Qaffin
postal code: 318
native label: قَفِّين

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Contents

History
Ottoman era
British Mandate era
Jordanian era
Post 1967
Demographics
References
Bibliography
External links

==History== Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.

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