al-Kum | |
|---|---|
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | الكوم |
| • Latin | al-Kum-al-Muwarraq-Beit Maqdum-Humsa (official) |
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  al-Kum Location of al-Kum within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°31′53″N 34°57′38″E / 31.53139°N 34.96056°E | |
| Palestine grid | 147/105 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Hebron |
| Founded | Early 19th-century |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council (from 1996) |
| • Head of Municipality | Musharraf Rajoub[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7,000 dunams (7.0 km2 or 2.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2017)[2] | |
| • Total | 1,464 |
| • Density | 210/km2 (540/sq mi) |
| Name meaning | Kh. el Kôm: the ruin of heaps[3] Kh. el Mûrak: the ruin the leafy place[4] Beit Makdûm: the house of Makdûm, personal name[5] |
Al-Kum (Arabic: الكوم, romanized: al-Kūm, 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.[6] It had a population of 1,464 in the 2017 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.[2]
- ^ al-Kum Municipality Archived 2013-12-16 at the Wayback Machine. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC).
- ^ a b Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 400
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 401
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 389
- ^ Al Kum, Al Muwarraq, Beit Maqdum, Humsa Village Profile. Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ). 2009.