Arabah
The Arabah/Araba or Aravah/Arava is a loosely defined geographic area located south of the Dead Sea drainage basin and north of the Gulf of Aqaba in southeastern Israel and southwestern Jordan.
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 221 metres
- Description: area south of the Dead Sea basin in Israel and Jordan
- Also known as: “‘Arabah”, “Araba”, “Arabá”, “Arabah Valley”, “Arava (kraina)”, “Arava-vallei”, “Aravské údolí”, “Arawa-Wüste”, “Ha‘Arava”, “Ha`Arava”, “Vádí Arava”, “Valea Arabah”, “Wadi ‘Araba”, “Wādī ‘Arabah”, “Wādī al ‘Arabah”, “Wadi al-Araba”, “Wádí Arava”, “Wādi el ‘Araba”, “Wadi el Arab”, “Wady el Araba”, “Араба”, “Вади Араба”, “Вади-эль-Араб”, “Пустыня Арава”, “Уәди әл-Араба”, and “阿拉伯谷地”
Arabah
- Categories: desert and landform
- Location: Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
30.17194° or 30° 10′ 19″ north
Longitude
35.14507° or 35° 8′ 42″ east
Elevation
221 metres (725 feet)
Open location code
8G2Q54CW+Q2
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Arabah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هاعارفا”
- Arabic: “هعرفا”
- Arabic: “هَعَرڤا”
- Arabic: “وادي العرب”
- Arabic: “وادي العربة”
- Arabic: “وادي عربة”
- Arabic: “وادي عربه”
- Azerbaijani: “Arava”
- Basque: “Aravah”
- Bulgarian: “Уади ал Араба”
- Bulgarian: “Уади Араба”
- Catalan: “Wadi Araba”
- Central Kurdish: “دۆڵی عەرەبە”
- Chinese: “阿拉伯谷”
- Czech: “Vádí al-Araba”
- Dutch: “Wadi Araba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وادى عربه”
- Esperanto: “Arabaha Valo”
- Finnish: “Aravanlaakso”
- French: “Arabah”
- German: “Arava”
- Greek: “Αραβά”
- Greek: “Άραμπα”
- Hebrew: “הערבה”
- Indonesian: “Arabah”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Arabah”
- Italian: “Wadi Araba”
- Japanese: “アラバの谷”
- Kazakh: “Уәди Араба”
- Korean: “아라바”
- Lithuanian: “Vadi Araba”
- Macedonian: “Арава”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arabah”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arabah”
- Norwegian: “Arabah”
- Persian: “عربه”
- Polish: “Arabah”
- Polish: “Ha-Arawa”
- Portuguese: “Arava”
- Romanian: “Arava”
- Russian: “Вади-эль-Араба”
- Slovenian: “Arabah”
- Spanish: “Aravá”
- Swedish: “Wadi Arabah”
- Turkish: “Arabe Vadisi”
- Ukrainian: “Арава (долина)”
- Ukrainian: “Ваді-ель-Араба”
- Urdu: “وادی عربہ”
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