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al-Kum
Sign in to saveAl-Kum (, officially known as al-Kum-al-Muwarraq-Beit Maqdum-Humsa) is a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank, part of the Hebron Governorate and located 13 kilometers west of Hebron. Its municipal borders stretch from the border with Israel in the west to boundaries of the city of Dura in the east. It had a population of 1,464 in the 2017 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
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Place details
- Locality
- الكوم
- Region
- West Bank
- Country
- الأراضي الفلسطينية
- Population
- 2,568
- Timezone
- Asia/Hebron
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- al-Kum
- Settlement.translit_lang1
- Arabic
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type
- Arabic
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info
- الكوم
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type1
- Latin
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info1
- al-Kum-al-Muwarraq-Beit Maqdum-Humsa (official)
- Settlement.type
- Municipality type D (Village council)
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Al-Kum7369 l68 d24.JPG
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of al-Kum within Palestine
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 147/105
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- State of Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hebron
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- Early 19th-century
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Mamluk period
- Ottoman period
- British Mandate era
- Jordanian era
- Post-1967
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Al-Kum (, officially known as al-Kum-al-Muwarraq-Beit Maqdum-Humsa) is a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank, part of the Hebron Governorate and located 13 kilometers west of Hebron. Its municipal borders stretch from the border with Israel in the west to boundaries of the city of Dura in the east. It had a population of 1,464 in the 2017 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
== Geography == From the east is Beit Maqdum, from the west is the Green Line (Israel), from the south is As Simiya, and from the north is Idna.
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