Assab
Assab or Aseb is a port city in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea situated on the west coast of the Red Sea. Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar, Tigrinya, and Arabic.
- Type: Suburb with 74,400 residents
- Description: city in Eritrea
- Also known as: “Assab Bay” and “ዓሰብ Assab عصب”
Assab
- Categories: port city and locality
- Location: Asseb, Southern Red Sea Region, Eritrea, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.00913° or 13° 0′ 33″ north
Longitude
42.74446° or 42° 44′ 40″ east
Population
74,400
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
IATA airport code
ASA
United Nations Location Code
ER ASA
Open location code
7H542P5V+MQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Assab” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عصب ()”
- Arabic: “عصب (مدينه)”
- Arabic: “عصب، إرتريا”
- Arabic: “عصب”
- Basque: “Assab”
- Belarusian: “Асэб”
- Bengali: “আসসাব”
- Catalan: “Aseb”
- Catalan: “Assab”
- Cebuano: “Assab (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Assab”
- Chinese: “阿萨布”
- Croatian: “Assab”
- Czech: “Assab”
- Danish: “Assab”
- Dutch: “Aseb”
- Dutch: “Assab”
- Finnish: “Aseb”
- Finnish: “Assab”
- Finnish: “Asseb”
- French: “Assab”
- French: “Asseb”
- French: “Baie d’Assab”
- Galician: “Assab”
- Georgian: “ასები”
- German: “Assab”
- Greek: “Άσσαμπ”
- Gujarati: “આસાબ”
- Hausa: “Assab”
- Hebrew: “אסאב”
- Hebrew: “אסב”
- Hindi: “अस्सब”
- Indonesian: “Assab”
- Italian: “Aseb”
- Italian: “Assab”
- Italian: “Asseb”
- Italian: “Baia di Assab”
- Japanese: “アッサブ”
- Kannada: “ಅಸ್ಸಾಬ್”
- Korean: “아사브”
- Latvian: “Aseba”
- Lithuanian: “Asabas”
- Lithuanian: “Asebas”
- Malay: “Assab”
- Marathi: “आसाब”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Assab”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Assab”
- Norwegian: “Assab”
- Persian: “عصب”
- Polish: “Asab”
- Polish: “Assab”
- Polish: “Asseb”
- Portuguese: “Assab”
- Portuguese: “Asseb”
- Romanian: “Aseb”
- Russian: “Ассаб”
- Russian: “Асэб”
- Sinhala: “අසැබ්”
- Somali: “Casab”
- South Azerbaijani: “عصب (شهر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “عصب”
- Spanish: “Asab”
- Spanish: “Āseb”
- Spanish: “Assab”
- Swahili: “Assab”
- Swedish: “Aseb”
- Swedish: “Assab”
- Tamil: “ஆசாப்”
- Telugu: “అస్సబ్”
- Thai: “อัลซับ”
- Tigre: “ዐሰብ”
- Tigre: “ዓሳብ”
- Tigrinya: “‘Aseb”
- Tigrinya: “ዓሳብ”
- Tigrinya: “ዓስብ”
- Turkish: “Assab”
- Ukrainian: “Асеб”
- Ukrainian: “Ассаб”
- Ukrainian: “Ассеб”
- Urdu: “عصب”
- Uzbek: “Aseb”
- Vietnamese: “Assab”
- Zulu: “Assab”
- “Assab”
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