Eilat

Eilat is the only city on the Red Sea. Eilat is the southernmost town in Israel, isolated from the rest of the country by the desert. It's sandwiched between Taba in Egypt and Aqaba in Jordan, and often used as an access route to those cities because of its large modern Ramon airport.
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  • Type: City with 52,200 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Aelana”, “Asiongaber”, “Eelat”, “Eilatas”, “Eilath”, “Ejlát”, “Ejlatas”, “Elat”, “Élat”, “Elath”, “Ellat”, “Eloth”, “Etzion Geber”, “Ilat”, “Umm Rashrash”, “Umm Rashrāsh”, “Umrashash”, “Елат”, “אֵילַת”, “إيلة”, “ام الرشراش”, “بندر ایلات”, “شاری ئیلات”, “شهر ایلات”, “엘라트”, “エイラット”, and “エイラト”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Yoseftal hospital and Eilat History Museum.

Hospital
Yoseftal Medical Center is a hospital in Eilat, .

Museum
The Eilat City Museum is a history museum in Eilat, Israel.

Shopping center
Photo: Avi1111, CC BY 3.0.
is a shopping center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eilot.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is the southernmost kibbutz in .

Eilat

Latitude
29.5569° or 29° 33′ 25″ north
Longitude
34.9498° or 34° 56′ 59″ east
Population
52,200
Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)
IATA airport code
ETH
UN/LOCODE
IL ETH
Open location code
7GXPHW4X+QW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27132996
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
295277
Wiki­data ID
Q134762
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Eilat” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Eilat”
  • Albanian: “Eilat”
  • Arabic: “آيلة” (historical)
  • Arabic: “أم الرشراش” (historical)
  • Arabic: “أيلات”
  • Arabic: “أيلة” (historical)
  • Arabic: “إيلات”
  • Arabic: “المرشرش” (historical)
  • Armenian: “Էյլաթ”
  • Asturian: “Eilat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Eylat”
  • Basque: “Eilat”
  • Belarusian: “Эйлат”
  • Belarusian: “Эйлят”
  • Bengali: “ইলাত”
  • Bengali: “এলাত”
  • Breton: “Eilat”
  • Bulgarian: “Ейлат”
  • Catalan: “Elat”
  • Cebuano: “Eilat”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیلات”
  • Chechen: “Эйлат”
  • Chinese: “埃拉特”
  • Chuvash: “Эйлат”
  • Croatian: “Eilat”
  • Czech: “Ejlat”
  • Danish: “Eilat”
  • Dutch: “Eilat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “أم الرشراش”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايلات”
  • Esperanto: “Ejlato”
  • Estonian: “Elat”
  • Finnish: “Eilat”
  • French: “Eilat”
  • Galician: “Eilat”
  • Georgian: “ეილათი”
  • German: “Eilat”
  • German: “Elat”
  • Greek: “Εϊλάτ”
  • Gujarati: “એલાત”
  • Hebrew: “אילת”
  • Hindi: “एलाट”
  • Hindi: “ऐलात”
  • Hungarian: “Eilat”
  • Hungarian: “Elat”
  • Ido: “Elat”
  • Indonesian: “Eilat”
  • Irish: “Eilat”
  • Italian: “Eilat”
  • Japanese: “エイラート”
  • Javanese: “Eilat”
  • Kalaallisut: “Eilat”
  • Kannada: “ಇಲತ್”
  • Korean: “에일라트”
  • Ladino: “Eilat”
  • Latvian: “Elata”
  • Limburgan: “Eilat”
  • Lithuanian: “Elatas”
  • Macedonian: “Ејлат”
  • Malay: “Eilat”
  • Manx: “Eilat”
  • Marathi: “ऐलात”
  • Mingrelian: “ეილათი”
  • Mongolian: “Эйлат”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إيلات”
  • Northern Frisian: “Eilat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eilat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eilat”
  • Norwegian: “Eilat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Eilat”
  • Ossetian: “Эйлат”
  • Persian: “ایلات”
  • Polish: “Ejlat”
  • Portuguese: “Eilat”
  • Portuguese: “Éilat”
  • Romanian: “Eilat”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эйлат”
  • Russian: “Эйлат”
  • Scots: “Eilat”
  • Serbian: “Eilat”
  • Serbian: “Еилат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Eilat”
  • Sinhala: “ඊලට්”
  • Slovak: “Ejlat”
  • Slovenian: “Eilat”
  • Spanish: “Eilat”
  • Swahili: “Eilat”
  • Swedish: “Eilat”
  • Tagalog: “Eilat”
  • Tagalog: “Elat”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Elat”
  • Tamil: “ஏலாத்”
  • Telugu: “ఎలాట్”
  • Thai: “เอลัต”
  • Thai: “ไอลัต”
  • Turkish: “Eilat”
  • Ukrainian: “Ейлат”
  • Urdu: “ایلات”
  • Veps: “Eilat”
  • Vietnamese: “Eilat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Eilat”
  • Welsh: “Eilat”
  • Western Armenian: “Էյլաթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Eilat”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃拉特”
  • Yiddish: “אילת”
  • Yue Chinese: “艾拉特”
  • Zeeuws: “Eilat”

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