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Aqaba

Aqaba

Aqaba is 's only port city. It is on the Gulf of Aqaba in the extreme south of the country, adjacent to Eilat in Israel.
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  • Type: City with 103,000 residents
  • Description: Jordanian coastal city
  • Also known as: “`Aqaba”, “Akaba”, “Al Aqaba”, “al-ʻAqabah”, “ʻAqabah”, and “Qal`at el `Aqaba”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aqaba Archaeological Museum and Aqaba Castle.

Museum
Photo: Bel Adone, Public domain.
is the official archaeological museum of the city of Aqaba in .

Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The or Aqaba Fort, also known as the Mamluk Castle of Aqaba, , is a Mamluk and Ottoman fortified caravanserai on the pilgrimage route to Mecca and Medina which, in its current form, dates back mainly to the 16th century.

Archaeological site
Aqaba is the only coastal city in and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba. Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the administrative center of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tall al Khalifa.

Village
Tell el-Kheleifeh is an archaeological site in at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba immediately northwest of the city of Aqaba. Its older identification with the 10th-century port from the biblical King Solomon narrative does not stand up to newer…

Aqaba

Latitude
29.5266° or 29° 31′ 36″ north
Longitude
35.0075° or 35° 0′ 27″ east
Population
103,000
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
IATA airport code
AQJ
United Nations Location Codes
JO AQB and JO AQJ
Open location code
7GXQG2G5+M2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 798842911
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
250774
Wiki­data ID
Q180522
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Aqaba” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Akaba”
  • Albanian: “Akaba”
  • Albanian: “Akabe”
  • Albanian: “Aqaba”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αἴλανα”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αἰλανή”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αἴλανον”
  • Arabic: “Aqaba”
  • Arabic: “العقبة”
  • Arabic: “العقبه”
  • Arabic: “جحفية”
  • Arabic: “مدينة العقبة”
  • Arabic: “مدينه العقبة”
  • Armenian: “Ակաբա”
  • Asturian: “Áqaba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akaba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aqaba”
  • Bashkir: “Ғәҡәбә”
  • Basque: “Akaba”
  • Basque: “Aqaba”
  • Belarusian: “Акаба”
  • Bengali: “আকাবা”
  • Bulgarian: “Акаба”
  • Catalan: “Àcaba”
  • Catalan: “Aelana”
  • Catalan: “Akaba”
  • Catalan: “Al-‘Aqaba”
  • Catalan: “Àqaba”
  • Cebuano: “Aqaba (kapital sa lalawigan sa Hordan)”
  • Cebuano: “Aqaba”
  • Central Kurdish: “عەقەبە”
  • Chinese: “亚喀巴”
  • Chinese: “亞喀巴”
  • Chinese: “阿卡巴”
  • Croatian: “Akaba”
  • Croatian: “Aqaba”
  • Czech: “Akaba”
  • Danish: “Akaba”
  • Danish: “Aqaba”
  • Dutch: “Aelana”
  • Dutch: “Akaba”
  • Dutch: “Al-Akaba”
  • Dutch: “Al-Aqaba”
  • Dutch: “Aqaba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “العقبه”
  • Esperanto: “Akabo”
  • Estonian: “Al-‘Aqabah”
  • Finnish: “Akaba”
  • Finnish: “Aqaba”
  • Finnish: “Aqabah”
  • French: “Aqaba”
  • French: “Elath”
  • Galician: “Aqaba”
  • Georgian: “აკაბა”
  • Georgian: “აქაბა”
  • German: “Aelana”
  • German: “Akaba”
  • German: “Al-ʿAqabah”
  • German: “Aqaba”
  • Greek: “Άκαμπα”
  • Gujarati: “અકાબા”
  • Hebrew: “עקבה”
  • Hindi: “अक़बा”
  • Hindi: “अकाबा”
  • Hungarian: “Akaba”
  • Indonesian: “Aqaba”
  • Irish: “Aqaba”
  • Italian: “‘Aqaba”
  • Italian: “Aila”
  • Italian: “Aqaba”
  • Japanese: “アカバ”
  • Japanese: “エル・アカバ”
  • Javanese: “Aqaba”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕಬ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕಾಬಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Akaba qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Акаба қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “اكابا قالاسى”
  • Korean: “아카바”
  • Latin: “Aelana”
  • Latvian: “Akaba”
  • Limburgan: “Aqaba”
  • Lithuanian: “Akaba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Akaba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aqaba”
  • Malay: “Aqaba”
  • Malayalam: “Aqaba”
  • Malayalam: “അക്വാബ”
  • Malayalam: “അക്വാബാ”
  • Maltese: “Aqaba”
  • Marathi: “अकाबा”
  • Mazanderani: “عقبه”
  • Mingrelian: “ელ-აყაბა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akaba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aqaba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akaba”
  • Norwegian: “Akaba”
  • Ossetian: “Акабæ”
  • Persian: “عقبه”
  • Polish: “Akaba”
  • Polish: “Al-Akaba”
  • Portuguese: “Ácaba”
  • Portuguese: “Akaba”
  • Portuguese: “Aqaba”
  • Portuguese: “Ayla”
  • Romanian: “Akaba”
  • Romanian: “Aqaba”
  • Russian: “Аила”
  • Russian: “Акаба”
  • Russian: “Аэлана”
  • Russian: “Элат”
  • Scots: “Aqaba”
  • Serbian: “Акаба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akaba”
  • Sinhala: “අකබා”
  • Slovak: “Akaba”
  • Slovenian: “Akaba”
  • Slovenian: “Aqaba”
  • Spanish: “Acaba”
  • Spanish: “Al Aqaba”
  • Spanish: “Al-Aqaba”
  • Spanish: “Aqaba”
  • Spanish: “Áqaba”
  • Swedish: “Akaba”
  • Swedish: “al-Aqaba”
  • Swedish: “Aqaba”
  • Tamil: “அகிஆபா”
  • Tamil: “அக்காபா”
  • Telugu: “అకాబ”
  • Thai: “อัลอะเกาะบะฮ์”
  • Thai: “แอคะบา”
  • Turkish: “Akabe”
  • Uighur: “ئەيلە (شەھەر)”
  • Uighur: “ئەيلە”
  • Ukrainian: “Акаба”
  • Urdu: “عقبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Aqaba”
  • Venetian: “Aqaba”
  • Vietnamese: “Aqaba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aqaba”
  • Welsh: “Acaba”
  • Welsh: “Al-‘Aqabah”
  • Welsh: “Aqaba”
  • Western Frisian: “Akaba”
  • Western Panjabi: “عقبہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚喀巴”

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