Beit Sira | |
|---|---|
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | بيت سيرا |
| • Latin | Bayt Sira (official) |
 Beit Sira | |
  Beit Sira Location of Beit Sira within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°53′15″N 35°02′39″E / 31.88750°N 35.04417°E | |
| Palestine grid | 154/143 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Ramallah and al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,120 dunams (3.1 km2 or 1.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
| • Total | 3,343 |
| • Density | 1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi) |
| Name meaning | The house of the fold[2] |
Beit Sira (Arabic: بيت سيرا) is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, located 22 kilometers west of Ramallah and is a part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. The village is situated along the Green Line. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, around 4,000 dunams of its land became a part of the "No-Man's Land" strip between the north-central West Bank and Israel. Currently Beit Sira's jurisdiction is 3,120 dunams, of which 441 dunams are built-up areas and the remainder is open spaces for future construction or agricultural land.[3]
- ^ 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. 287
- ^ Beit Sira: A Palestinian Village on the verge of diminishing Archived November 19, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. 5 July 2004.