Tafilah
Tafilah, also spelled Tafila, is a city with a population of 27,559 people in southwestern Jordan, located 183 kilometers southwest of Amman. It is the capital of Tafilah Governorate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 25,400 residents
- Description: city in Tafilah Governorate, Jordan
- Also known as: “Al Tafilah”, “At Tafila”, “Aṭ Ṭafīla”, “At Tafilah”, “At-Tafilah”, “El Tafile”, “Et Tafīla”, “Tafīla”, “Tafileh”, “Tophel”, and “Tufailah”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al Sil.
Al Sil
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sela is a geographical name encountered several times in the Hebrew Bible, and applicable to a variety of locations. One site by this name is placed by the Second Book of Kings in Edom. Al Sil is situated 6 km south of Tafilah.
Tafilah
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Tafilah Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
30.83333° or 30° 50′ northLongitude
35.6° or 35° 36′ eastPopulation
25,400Elevation
1,041 metres (3,415 feet)United Nations Location Code
JO TFHOpen location code
8G2QRHMX+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 798885889OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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: “الطفیلة”
- Persian: “الطفیله”
- 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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