Assab

Assab or Aseb is a port city in the Southern Red Sea Region of situated on the west coast of the Red Sea. Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar, Tigrinya, and Arabic.
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  • Type: Suburb with 74,400 residents
  • Description: city in Eritrea
  • Also known as: “Asabas”, “Āseb”, “Assab Bay”, “Asseb”, “Baie d’Assab”, “Ассеб”, “אסב”, “عصب ()”, “عصب (مدينه)”, “عصب، إرتريا”, and “ዓሰብ Assab عصب”

Assab

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
UN/LOCODE
ER ASA
Open location code
7H542P5V+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 321263589
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
343386
Wiki­data ID
Q738496
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Assab” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “عصب”
  • Basque: “Assab”
  • Belarusian: “Асэб”
  • Bengali: “আসসাব”
  • Catalan: “Assab”
  • Cebuano: “Assab (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Assab”
  • Chinese: “阿萨布”
  • Croatian: “Assab”
  • Czech: “Assab”
  • Danish: “Assab”
  • Dutch: “Assab”
  • Finnish: “Aseb”
  • Finnish: “Assab”
  • French: “Assab”
  • Galician: “Assab”
  • Georgian: “ასები”
  • German: “Assab”
  • Greek: “Άσσαμπ”
  • Gujarati: “આસાબ”
  • Hausa: “Assab”
  • Hebrew: “אסאב”
  • Hindi: “अस्सब”
  • Indonesian: “Assab”
  • Italian: “Assab”
  • Italian: “Baia di Assab”
  • Japanese: “アッサブ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಸ್ಸಾಬ್”
  • Korean: “아사브”
  • Latvian: “Aseba”
  • Lithuanian: “Asebas”
  • Malay: “Assab”
  • Marathi: “आसाब”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Assab”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Assab”
  • Norwegian: “Assab”
  • Persian: “عصب”
  • Polish: “Asab”
  • Polish: “Assab”
  • Portuguese: “Assab”
  • Romanian: “Aseb”
  • Russian: “Асэб”
  • Sinhala: “අසැබ්”
  • Somali: “Casab”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عصب (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عصب”
  • Spanish: “Asab”
  • Spanish: “Assab”
  • Swahili: “Assab”
  • Swedish: “Assab”
  • Tamil: “ஆசாப்”
  • Telugu: “అస్సబ్”
  • Thai: “อัลซับ”
  • Tigre: “ዐሰብ”
  • Tigre: “ዓሳብ”
  • Tigrinya: “‘Aseb”
  • Tigrinya: “ዓሳብ”
  • Tigrinya: “ዓስብ”
  • Turkish: “Assab”
  • Ukrainian: “Асеб”
  • Ukrainian: “Ассаб”
  • Urdu: “عصب”
  • Uzbek: “Aseb”
  • Vietnamese: “Assab”
  • Zulu: “Assab”
  • “Assab”

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