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: State with 89,400 residents
- Description: governorate in Jordan
- Also known as: “Aţ Ţafīlah”, “Muhafazat at Tafilah”, “Tafielah”, “Tafielah Governorate”, and “Tafilah”
Tafilah Governorate
- Categories: governorate of Jordan and locality
- Location: Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
30.7864° or 30° 47′ 11″ northLongitude
35.6991° or 35° 41′ 57″ eastPopulation
89,400Elevation
674 metres (2,211 feet)Open location code
8G2QQMPX+GJOpenStreetMap ID
node 13294463857OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
250199Wikidata ID
Q750259
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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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