Israel
Negev
Southern District

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: “Elat”, “Elath”, “Etzion Geber”, “Ilat”, “Umm Rashrāsh”, and “Umrashash”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yoseftal hospital and Eilat History Museum.

Hospital
Yoseftal Medical Center is a hospital in Eilat, . , founded in 1968, is the southernmost hospital in Israel and the only hospital covering the southern Negev desert.

Museum
The Eilat City Museum is a history museum in Eilat, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the history of the development of the city of Eilat.

Government office
Photo: Marsupium, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a government office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eilot.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is the southernmost kibbutz in . It is located in the Aravah Valley, near the border with . is less than a kilometer north of Eilat, and just over 3 kilometers north of the Red Sea.

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
United Nations Location Code
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: “إيلة”
  • Arabic: “المرشرش” (historical)
  • Arabic: “ايلات”
  • Armenian: “Էյլաթ”
  • Asturian: “Eilat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Eylat”
  • Basque: “Eilat”
  • Basque: “Elath”
  • Belarusian: “Эйлат”
  • Belarusian: “Эйлят”
  • Bengali: “אילת”
  • Bengali: “אֵילַת”
  • Bengali: “ইলাত”
  • Bengali: “এলাত”
  • Bulgarian: “Ейлат”
  • Catalan: “Eilat”
  • Catalan: “Elat”
  • Cebuano: “Eilat”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیلات”
  • Chechen: “Эйлат”
  • Chinese: “埃拉特”
  • Chinese: “艾拉特”
  • Chuvash: “Эйлат”
  • Croatian: “Eilat”
  • Czech: “Ejlat”
  • Czech: “Ejlát”
  • Czech: “Elat”
  • Danish: “Eilat”
  • Danish: “Elat”
  • Danish: “אילת”
  • Dutch: “Eilat”
  • Dutch: “Eilath”
  • Dutch: “Elath”
  • Dutch: “Eloth”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “أم الرشراش”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ام الرشراش”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايلات”
  • Esperanto: “Eilat”
  • Esperanto: “Ejlato”
  • Estonian: “Eelat”
  • Estonian: “Eilat”
  • Estonian: “Elat”
  • Finnish: “Eilat”
  • Finnish: “Elat”
  • French: “Asiongaber”
  • French: “Eilat”
  • French: “Eilath”
  • Galician: “Eilat”
  • Georgian: “ეილათი”
  • German: “Eilat”
  • German: “Eilath”
  • German: “Elat”
  • German: “Elath”
  • Greek: “Εϊλάτ”
  • Gujarati: “એલાત”
  • Hebrew: “אילת”
  • Hindi: “एलाट”
  • Hindi: “ऐलात”
  • Hungarian: “Eilat”
  • Hungarian: “Elat”
  • Ido: “Elat”
  • Indonesian: “Eilat”
  • Irish: “Eilat”
  • Italian: “Aelana”
  • Italian: “Eilat”
  • Italian: “Elat”
  • Japanese: “エイラート”
  • Japanese: “エイラット”
  • Japanese: “エイラト”
  • Javanese: “Eilat”
  • Kalaallisut: “Eilat”
  • Kannada: “ಇಲತ್”
  • Korean: “에일라트”
  • Korean: “엘라트”
  • Ladino: “Eilat”
  • Latvian: “Elata”
  • Limburgan: “Eilat”
  • Lithuanian: “Eilat”
  • Lithuanian: “Eilatas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ejlatas”
  • Lithuanian: “Elatas”
  • Macedonian: “Ејлат”
  • Malay: “Eilat”
  • Manx: “Eilat”
  • Marathi: “ऐलात”
  • Mingrelian: “ეილათი”
  • Mongolian: “Эйлат”
  • Northern Frisian: “Eilat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eilat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eilat”
  • Norwegian: “Eilat”
  • Ossetian: “Эйлат”
  • Persian: “ایلات”
  • Persian: “بندر ایلات”
  • Persian: “شهر ایلات”
  • Polish: “Eilat”
  • Polish: “Ejlat”
  • Portuguese: “Eilat”
  • Portuguese: “Éilat”
  • Portuguese: “Elat”
  • Portuguese: “Élat”
  • Romanian: “Eilat”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эйлат”
  • Russian: “Эйлат”
  • Scots: “Eilat”
  • Scots: “אֵילַת”
  • Serbian: “Eilat”
  • Serbian: “Еилат”
  • Serbian: “Ејлат”
  • Serbian: “Елат”
  • Serbian: “אילת”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Eilat”
  • Sinhala: “ඊලට්”
  • Slovak: “Eilat”
  • Slovak: “Ejlat”
  • Slovenian: “Eilat”
  • Spanish: “Eilat”
  • Spanish: “Elat”
  • Spanish: “Ellat”
  • Swahili: “Eilat”
  • Swedish: “Eilat”
  • Swedish: “Umm Rashrash”
  • Tagalog: “Eilat”
  • Tagalog: “Elat”
  • Tagalog: “Eylat”
  • 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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