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Place details
- Locality
- חיפה
- Region
- מחוז חיפה
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 39,897
- Timezone
- Asia/Jerusalem
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Iso 259
- Qiryat Yamm
- Country
- Israel
- District
- Haifa
- Mayor
- David Even-Tzur
- Total
- 4,339 dunams (4.339 km ; 1.675 sq mi)
- Density
- 9,670/km (25,040/sq mi)
- Jews and others
- 99.8%
- Arabs
- 0.2%
- Name meaning
- Sea Town
- Website
- www .kiryat-yam .muni .il
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city council
- Country
- Israel
- Located in
- Haifa Subdistrict
- Population
- 42110
- Area
- 4.339
- Elevation
- 10
- Official website
- www.kiryat-yam.muni.il
- Image
- Kyam5.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kiryat Yam
- twinned administrative body
- Kislovodsk
- inception
- 1941-01-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kiryat Yam
- P12749
- Walter Scheel
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Encyclopedic overview
Kiryat Yam (Hebrew: קִרְיַת יָם, lit. Sea Town) is a city in the Haifa Bay district of Israel, 12 km (7 mi) north of Haifa. One of a group of Haifa suburbs known as the Krayot, it is located on the Mediterranean coast, between Kiryat Haim and the Tzur Shalom industrial area, east of Kiryat Motzkin. In 2024 it had a population of 41,957.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kiryat Yam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.