Gabes
Gabès is in the Gulf of Gabès, along the Tunisian coast, and the last stop for the railway line heading south. For most tourists, you will pass through Gabès on the way to another city.
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- Type: City with 131,000 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Also known as: “Abes”, “Gabès”, “Gābis”, “Kābis”, “Kape”, “Qabis”, “Tacapae”, “Габэс (горад)”, “Габэс (места)”, “Габэс (Туніс)”, “גאַבעס”, “قابس (ولاية)”, “ガーベス”, and “ガベズ”
Gabes
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia and locality
- Location: Gabès Governorate, Central Coastal Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
33.8878° or 33° 53′ 16″ north
Longitude
10.1004° or 10° 6′ 2″ east
Population
131,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
GAE
UN/LOCODE
TN GAE
Open location code
8F5GV4Q2+45
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Gabes” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ጋቤስ”
- Arabic: “ڤابس”
- Arabic: “قابس”
- Arabic: “ولاية قابس”
- Armenian: “Գաբես”
- Azerbaijani: “Qabes”
- Basque: “Gabes”
- Belarusian: “Габес”
- Belarusian: “Габэс”
- Bengali: “গাবেস”
- Breton: “Gabès”
- Bulgarian: “Габес”
- Catalan: “Gabès”
- Cebuano: “Gabès (kapital sa lalawigan sa Tunisia)”
- Cebuano: “Gabès”
- Chinese: “加貝斯”
- Chinese: “加贝斯”
- Czech: “Gábes”
- Danish: “Gabes”
- Dutch: “Gabès”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قابس”
- Esperanto: “Gabes”
- Estonian: “Gabès”
- Estonian: “Qābis”
- Finnish: “Gabès”
- French: “Gabès”
- Galician: “Gabès”
- Georgian: “გაბესი”
- German: “Gabes”
- German: “Gabès”
- Greek: “Γκαμπές”
- Greek: “Κάμπις”
- Hausa: “Gabes”
- Hausa: “Gabès”
- Hebrew: “גאבס”
- Hindi: “गाबेस”
- Hindi: “गेबस”
- Hungarian: “Kábesz”
- Indonesian: “Gabes”
- Irish: “Gabès”
- Italian: “Gabès”
- Japanese: “ガベス”
- Javanese: “Gabes”
- Kazakh: “Габес”
- Kirghiz: “Габес”
- Korean: “가베스”
- Latin: “Tacape”
- Lithuanian: “Gabesas”
- Malay: “Gabes”
- Malay: “Gabès”
- Moksha: “Габэс”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gabès”
- Norwegian: “Gabès”
- Oromo: “Gabes”
- Panjabi: “ਗਾਬੇਸ”
- Persian: “قابس”
- Polish: “Kabis”
- Portuguese: “Gabés”
- Portuguese: “Gabès”
- Pushto: “قابس”
- Romanian: “Gabès”
- Russian: “Габес”
- Scots: “Gabès”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gabes”
- Sicilian: “Gabes”
- Slovenian: “Gabes”
- Somali: “Gabes”
- South Azerbaijani: “قابس”
- Spanish: “Gabes”
- Spanish: “Gabès”
- Swahili: “Gabes”
- Swahili: “Gabès”
- Swedish: “Gabès”
- Tajik: “Габес”
- Tatar: “Gabes”
- Thai: “กอบิส”
- Thai: “กาแบ็ส”
- Turkish: “Gabes”
- Turkish: “Gabis”
- Ukrainian: “Габес”
- Ukrainian: “Ґабес”
- Urdu: “قابس”
- Uzbek: “Gabes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gabès”
- Welsh: “Gabès”
- Yiddish: “גאבעס”
- Zulu: “Gabès”
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