Tafilah

Tafilah, also spelled Tafila, is a city with a population of 27,559 people in southwestern , located 183 kilometers southwest of . It is the capital of .
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Wikipedia
Photo: Adeeb Atwan, CC BY 3.0.
  • Town with 25,400 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,041 metres (3,415 feet)
  • Description: city in Tafilah Governorate, Jordan
  • Also known as
    “Al Tafilah”
    “Aṭ Ṭafīla”
    “At Tafilah”
    “El Tafile”
    “Et Tafīla”
    “Tafīla”
    “Tafileh”
    “Tophel”
    “Tufailah”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al Sil.

Locality
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Sela is a geographical name encountered several times… is situated 6 km south of Tafilah.

Tafilah

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Latitude
30.83333° or 30° 50′ north
Longitude
35.6° or 35° 36′ east
UN/LOCODE
JO TFH
Open location code
8G2QRHMX+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 798885889
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
250198
Wiki­data ID
Q2550996

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Urdu—“Tafilah” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Tafilah”
  • Arabic: “الطفيلة”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Տաֆիլա”
  • Asturian: “Tafilah”
  • Belarusian: “Тафіла”
  • Belarusian: “Эт-Тафіла”
  • Cebuano: “Aţ Ţafīlah”
  • Czech: “Tafila”
  • Dutch: “Tafilah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الطفيلة”
  • Finnish: “At Tafilah”
  • French: “At Tafila”
  • French: “Tafilah”
  • German: “At-Tafila”
  • German: “Tafila”
  • German: “Tafilah”
  • Hebrew: “טפילה”
  • Hindi: “टफिला”
  • Indonesian: “Tafilah”
  • Japanese: “タフィラ”
  • Korean: “타필라”
  • Lithuanian: “Tafila”
  • Malay: “Tafilah”
  • Mazanderani: “طفیله (شهر)”
  • Mazanderani: “طفیله”
  • Mingrelian: “ატ-ტაფილა”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tafilah”
  • Persian: “الطفيلة”
  • Persian: “الطفیله”
  • Persian: “طفیله”
  • Polish: “At-Tafila”
  • Polish: “Tofel”
  • Romanian: “Tafilah”
  • Russian: “Тафила”
  • Russian: “Эт-Тафила”
  • Scots: “Tafilah”
  • Spanish: “At Tafilah”
  • Spanish: “Tafila”
  • Spanish: “Tafilah”
  • Swedish: “al-Tafila”
  • Swedish: “at-Tafila”
  • Swedish: “At-Tafila”
  • Thai: “อัฏเฏาะฟีละฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Tafile”
  • Ukrainian: “Ет-Тафіла”
  • Ukrainian: “Тафіла”
  • Urdu: “طفیلہ”

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