Tafilah Governorate
Tafilah is one of the governorates of Jordan, located about 180 km south-west of Amman, Jordan's capital. Tafilah Governorate is bordered by Karak Governorate to the north, Ma'an Governorate to the east and south, Aqaba Governorate to the south, and by Israel to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: governorate of Jordan with 89,400 residents
- Description: governorate in Jordan
- Also known as: “Aţ Ţafīlah”, “Muhafazat at Tafilah”, “Tafielah”, and “Tafielah Governorate”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include بصيرا and Al Sil.
بصيرا
Village
Photo: Uri, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Busaira is a town in Tafilah Governorate, Jordan, located between the towns of Tafilah and Shoubak and closer to the latter. Bozrah is a biblical city identified by some researchers with an archaeological site situated in the town of Busaira.
Al Sil
Locality
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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 3½ km north of Tafilah Governorate.
Tafilah Governorate
- Location: Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tafilah Governorate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الطفيلة”
- Arabic: “الطفيله”
- Arabic: “جحفية”
- Arabic: “طفيلة”
- Arabic: “محافظة الطفيلة”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Տաֆիլա”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Տաֆիլայի մարզ”
- Basque: “Tafila Gobernazioa”
- Basque: “Tafila”
- Basque: “Tafilah Gobernazioa”
- Belarusian: “Тафіла”
- Bengali: “তাফিলাহ গভর্নোরেট”
- Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at aţ Ţafīlah”
- Chinese: “Tafilah Séng”
- Chinese: “塔菲拉省”
- Danish: “Tafilah Governorate”
- Dutch: “Tafilah”
- Esperanto: “Tafilaho”
- Finnish: “At Tafilah”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Tafilah”
- French: “Subdivision de tafilah”
- French: “Tafilah”
- German: “at-Tafila”
- German: “Gouvernement at-Tafila”
- German: “Gouvernement Tafila”
- German: “Muhafazat at-Tafila”
- German: “Tafila”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Ταφιλάχ”
- Gujarati: “તાફીલા ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hebrew: “טפילה”
- Hindi: “तफिला गवर्नरेट”
- Hindi: “तफ़ीलाह प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Tafíla kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Tafilah”
- Italian: “governatorato di al-Tafila”
- Italian: “Governatorato di al-Tafila”
- Japanese: “タフィラ県”
- Kannada: “ಟಫಿಲಾ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Korean: “타필라주”
- Latvian: “Tafilas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Tafilos muchafaza”
- Lithuanian: “Tafilos muhafaza”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Tafilah”
- Malay: “Tafilah Governorate”
- Marathi: “ताफीला गव्हर्नोरेट”
- Mazanderani: “الطفیله استان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tafilah Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tafilah Governorate”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tafilah guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Tafielah”
- Persian: “استان طفیله”
- Persian: “طفیله”
- Polish: “At-Tafila”
- Portuguese: “Governamento de Tafilah”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Tafilah”
- Russian: “Эт-Тафила”
- Scots: “Tafilah Govrenorate”
- Sinhala: “ටෆිලා පළාත”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de At Tafilah”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de At Tafilah”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Tafila”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Tafila”
- Swedish: “al-Tafila”
- Swedish: “at-Tafila”
- Swedish: “At-Tafila”
- Swedish: “Muhafazat at-Tafila”
- Swedish: “Tafilah”
- Tamil: “டபிலாஹ் கோவெர்னோகைட்”
- Telugu: “టాఫిలా గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าราชการอัฏเฏาะฟีละฮ์”
- Turkish: “Tafilah Yönetimi”
- Turkish: “Tafile”
- Ukrainian: “Ет-Тафіла”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Ет-Тафіла”
- Urdu: “محافظہ طفیلہ”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Tafilah”
- Western Armenian: “Ալ Թաֆիլայի մարզ”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع طفیلہ”
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