Tihamah

Tihamah or Tihama is the Red Sea coastal plain of the from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb.
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  • Type: Plain
  • Description: Red Sea coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb
  • Also known as: At Tihāma”, “El Tihama”, “Tehama”, “Tihama Plain”, and “Tihāmah

Tihamah

Latitude
22° north
Longitude
40° east
Elevation
690 metres (2,264 feet)
Open location code
7HJ22222+22
Geo­Names ID
101373
Wiki­data ID
Q1127195
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tihamah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: تهامة
  • Arabic: تهامه
  • Arabic: سهل تهامة
  • Arabic: سهل تهامه
  • Armenian: Թիհամա
  • Azerbaijani: Tihamə
  • Azerbaijani: Tixama
  • Basque: Tihama
  • Belarusian: Ціхама
  • Bengali: তিহামাহ্
  • Bulgarian: Тихама
  • Catalan: Tihama
  • Cebuano: Tihāmah
  • Chechen: ТихӀамат
  • Chinese: 帖哈麥
  • Chinese: 提哈瑪
  • Croatian: Tihama
  • Czech: Tiháma
  • Danish: Tihamah
  • Egyptian Arabic: تهامه
  • French: Tihama
  • French: Tihamah
  • Galician: Tihama
  • Georgian: თიჰამა
  • German: Tihama
  • German: Tihāmah
  • Greek: Τιχάμα
  • Hindi: तिहामा
  • Hindi: तिहामाह
  • Hungarian: Tiháma-síkság
  • Indonesian: Tihamah
  • Italian: Tihama
  • Italian: Tihamah
  • Japanese: ティハーマ
  • Kazakh: Tïxama
  • Kazakh: Тихама
  • Kazakh: تىيحاما
  • Lithuanian: Tihama
  • Lithuanian: Tihamahas
  • Nigerian Pidgin: Tihamah
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Tihamah
  • Persian: تهامه
  • Polish: Tihama
  • Portuguese: Tiama
  • Russian: Тихама
  • Saraiki: تہامہ
  • Scottish Gaelic: Tihamah
  • Serbian: Тихама
  • Serbo-Croatian: Tihama
  • Sindhi: تھامہ
  • Slovenian: Tihama
  • South Azerbaijani: تهامه
  • Spanish: Tihama
  • Swedish: Tihama
  • Swedish: Tihamah
  • Turkish: Tihame
  • Turkish: Tihâme
  • Ukrainian: Тігама
  • Ukrainian: Тіхама
  • Urdu: تہامہ
  • Vietnamese: Tihamah
  • Western Panjabi: تہامہ

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