Burqin is a Palestinian town 4 km south-west of Jenin, at 270 m above sea level; its land extends over 19,447 dunams while its built-up area covers 400.
Its fame comes from the Burqin (St George) church, one of the oldest churches in the world and a religious and tourist landmark for Christian pilgrims, built over Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman remains. The town appears as Buraqina in the Egyptian Amarna letters.
It had a Christian majority in earlier centuries and about 20 Christian families remain; its first municipality was founded in 1999. The population was 5,685 in 2007 and 7,126 in 2017.
Source: Wikipedia (English) — "Burqin, Palestine" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqin,_Palestine
