Ashdod
Ashdod is a city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, halfway between Tel Aviv and Gaza. One of Israel's two industrial ports is here. It is Israel's busiest port, with 60% of all imports and exports passing through it.
- Type: Town with 226,000 residents
- Description: city in Israel
- Also known as: “Ashdod on the Sea”, “Ashdod Yam”, “Ashod”, “Azot”, “Azôt”, “Azoto”, “Azotos”, “Isdud”, “Minat al-Qala”, “Ukreir”, “Ασντότ”, “Αστόντ”, “Аздод”, “Азот”, “Асдод”, “Исдуд”, “Ісдуд”, “اِشدود”, “بندر اشدود”, “アシュドド”, and “亚实突”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ashdod’s museam Korin Maman and Yud-Alef Stadium.
Ashdod’s museam Korin Maman
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qiryat Eitanim and Shtulim.
Shtulim
Village
Ashdod
- Categories: city, big city, and locality
- Location: Southern District, Israeli Coastal Plain, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.7977° or 31° 47′ 52″ north
Longitude
34.653° or 34° 39′ 11″ east
Population
226,000
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Ashdod” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ashdod”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἄζωτος”
- Arabic: “أسدود”
- Arabic: “أشدود”
- Armenian: “Աշդոդ”
- Asturian: “Asdod”
- Azerbaijani: “Aşdod”
- Bashkir: “Ашдод”
- Basque: “Axdod”
- Belarusian: “Ашдод”
- Bengali: “আশদোদ”
- Betawi: “Asdud”
- Bosnian: “Ašdod”
- Bulgarian: “Ашдод”
- Catalan: “Asdod”
- Cebuano: “Ashdod”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەشدۆد”
- Chinese: “阿什杜德”
- Chuvash: “Ашдод”
- Crimean Tatar: “Aşdod”
- Croatian: “Ašdod”
- Czech: “Ašdod”
- Danish: “Ashdod”
- Dimli (individual language): “Eşdod”
- Dutch: “Ashdod”
- Dutch: “Asjdod”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اسدود”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اشدود”
- Esperanto: “Aŝdod”
- Estonian: “Ashdod”
- Finnish: “Ashdod”
- French: “Ashdod”
- Galician: “Ashdod”
- Georgian: “აშდოდი”
- German: “Aschdod”
- Greek: “Ασντόντ”
- Gujarati: “અશ્દોદ”
- Hebrew: “אשדוד”
- Hindi: “अशदोद”
- Hindi: “अश्दोद”
- Hungarian: “Asdód”
- Indonesian: “Ashdod”
- Interlingue: “Ashdod”
- Irish: “Aisdeod”
- Italian: “Ashdod”
- Japanese: “アシュドッド”
- Javanese: “Ashdod”
- Kalaallisut: “Ashdod”
- Kannada: “ಅಶ್ಡೊದ್”
- Korean: “아슈도드”
- Ladino: “Ashdod”
- Latin: “Azotus”
- Latvian: “Ašdoda”
- Lithuanian: “Ašdodas”
- Macedonian: “Ашдод”
- Malagasy: “Ashdod”
- Malay: “Ashdod”
- Malayalam: “അഷ്ദോദ്”
- Maltese: “Ashdod”
- Manx: “Ashdod”
- Marathi: “अशदोद”
- Mingrelian: “აშდოდი”
- Moksha: “Ашдод”
- Mongolian: “Ашдод”
- Moroccan Arabic: “أشدود”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashdod”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ashdod”
- Norwegian: “Ashdod”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Īsdyd”
- Ossetian: “Ашдод”
- Persian: “اشدود”
- Polish: “Aszdod”
- Portuguese: “Asdode”
- Portuguese: “Ashdod”
- Romanian: “Așdod”
- Russian: “Ашдод”
- Scots: “Ashdod”
- Serbian: “Ašdod”
- Serbian: “Ашдод”
- Sinhala: “ඈශ්ඩොඩ්”
- Slovenian: “Ašdod”
- Spanish: “Asdod”
- Swahili: “Ashdod”
- Swedish: “Ashdod”
- Tagalog: “Ashdod”
- Tamil: “அஸ்தோது”
- Telugu: “అష్డోదు”
- Thai: “อัชด็อด”
- Turkish: “Aşdod”
- Ukrainian: “Ашдод”
- Urdu: “اشدود”
- Venetian: “Ashdod”
- Veps: “Ašdod”
- Vietnamese: “Ashdod”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ashdod”
- Welsh: “Ashdod”
- Western Armenian: “Աշտոտ”
- Wolof: “Asot”
- Wu Chinese: “阿什杜德”
- Yiddish: “אשדוד”
- Yoruba: “Aṣdodu”
- Yue Chinese: “阿什杜德”
- Zeeuws: “Asjdod”
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