Biblical place

Where was Samaria?

Name for both a city and a region, often carrying the Bible’s tensions around division, rivalry, and unexpected encounter.

First appears in 1 Kings 13:32 · 12 books · 47 chapters

Overview

Samaria names both a city and a region in the biblical world, and it becomes a charged landscape of kingdom division, prophetic critique, and later Gospel encounters across cultural boundaries.

Samaria is represented in the local geography layer as Samaria. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in 1 Kings 13:32 and is mentioned across 12 books, with 113 verse references collected into the glossary index.

Nearby biblical places

Nazareth

About 48 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jericho

About 51 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Canaan

About 56 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jerusalem

About 56 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Judea

About 56 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Where it sits on the map

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How to get to Samaria today

Find the traditionally identified site on a modern map.

Samaria is best understood today as the central highlands rather than a single street address. The map point is there to orient you around the ridge country and the ancient Sebaste-Nablus corridor.

Samaria is treated here as a wider landscape centered on this study point.

This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Borders, permits, local access, and the exact identification of biblical landscapes can change.

Modern orientation

Samaria

32.276°N · 35.195°E

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