Umm Salamuna

Umm Salamuna
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicخربة ام سلمونة
 • LatinUm Salmonah (official)
Kirbat Umm Salamunah (unofficial)
Area map, showing Umm Salamunu, north of Beit Fajjar, in 2011
Area map, showing Umm Salamunu, north of Beit Fajjar, in 2011
Umm Salamuna is located in State of Palestine
Umm Salamuna
Umm Salamuna
Location of Umm Salamuna within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°38′36″N 35°10′05″E / 31.64333°N 35.16806°E / 31.64333; 35.16806
Palestine grid166/116
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateBethlehem
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total1,188
Name meaningUmm Salamôni, the ruin of the mother of Salamôni[2]

Umm Salamuna (Arabic: خربة ام سلمونة) is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers south-west of Bethlehem. The village is in the Bethlehem Governorate in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,188 in 2017.[1] The primary healthcare is obtained in Beit Fajjar, where the Ministry of Health has classified the care facilities as level 3.[3]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 403
  3. ^ West Bank Healthcare