Beer Sheva

Beer-Sheva בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע‎‎ بئر السبع‎
Hebrew transcription(s)
• Also spelled	Beer-Sheva / Be'er Sheva (official) Beersheba (unofficial)
From Upper left: Beersheba City Hall, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Negev Museum of Art, view of down town, Volunteers square, Be'er Sheva at night.
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Beer-Sheva
Coordinates: 31°15′32″N 34°47′58.95″E / 31.25889°N 34.7997083°E / 31.25889; 34.7997083Coordinates: 31°15′32″N 34°47′58.95″E / 31.25889°N 34.7997083°E / 31.25889; 34.7997083
Country	Israel
District	Southern
Government
• Type	City
• Mayor	Ruvik Danilovich
Area
• Total	117,500 dunams (117.5 km2 or 45.4 sq mi)
Elevation	260 m (850 ft)
Population (2015)
• Total	203,604
Name meaning	Well of the Oath or Seven Wells(see also)
Website	www.beer-sheva.muni.il

Beer-Sheva (/bɪərˈʃiːbə/; Hebrew: בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע‎  Be'er Sheva [beʔeʁˈʃeva]; Arabic: بئر السبع‎‎  Bi'ir as-Sab  [biːr esˈsabeʕ]) is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the center of the fourth most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth most populous city in Israel with a population of 203,604, and the second largest city with a total of 117,500 dunams (after Jerusalem).