Question: is shechem and sychar the same?
Answer: Shechem is mentioned in The Book of Acts (Acts 7:16). It is not known whether the Samaritan city of Sychar in the Gospel of John (John 4:5) refers to Shechem or to another nearby village: "So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph."