Ta’if

Ta'if is a city in the Mecca province of . With a population of 690,000 people, it is the sixth most populous city in Saudi Arabia. The city is at an elevation of 1,879 m and is therefore much cooler than any of the nearby larger cities: , and .
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  • City with 580,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,672 metres (5,486 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code TIF
  • Description: city in Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as
    “Al-Ta’if”
    “At Ta’if”
    “Tayif”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Abdullah Ibn Abbas Mosque and Shubra Palace.
The Abd Allah ibn al-Abbas Mosque is a historical…
Mmasudtu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Shupra Castle is a royal palace in Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Dall2611, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Taif is a city and governorate in in .

Ta’if

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Latitude
21.2703° or 21° 16′ 13″ north
Longitude
40.4158° or 40° 24′ 57″ east
UN/LOCODE
SA TIF
Open location code
7HH27CC8+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1236468526
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
107968
Wiki­data ID
Q182640

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Ta’if” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Taif”
  • Albanian: “Ta’if”
  • Albanian: “Taifi”
  • Arabic: “Aţ Ţā’if”
  • Arabic: “الطائف”
  • Arabic: “الطّائف”
  • Arabic: “طائف”
  • Armenian: “Էթ Թաիֆ”
  • Armenian: “Էտ-Տաիֆ”
  • Avaric: “АтӀ-ТӀаиф”
  • Azerbaijani: “Taif”
  • Basque: “Ta’if”
  • Belarusian: “Таіф”
  • Bengali: “তাইফ”
  • Bosnian: “Ta’if”
  • Bulgarian: “Ал Таиф”
  • Bulgarian: “Ат-Таиф”
  • Bulgarian: “Таиф”
  • Catalan: “Al-Tā’if”
  • Catalan: “Al-Taif”
  • Catalan: “Al-Taïf”
  • Catalan: “At-Taïf”
  • Catalan: “Oasi de Taïf”
  • Catalan: “Taïf”
  • Cebuano: “Ta’if”
  • Central Kurdish: “تایف”
  • Chechen: “ТӀаиф”
  • Chechen: “Эт-Таиф”
  • Chinese: “塔伊夫”
  • Croatian: “Ta’if”
  • Czech: “al-Táif”
  • Czech: “Táif”
  • Danish: “Ta’if”
  • Dutch: “Et- Ta‘if”
  • Dutch: “Et- Ta’if”
  • Dutch: “Et-Ta‘if”
  • Dutch: “Et-Ta’if”
  • Dutch: “Taif”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الطائف”
  • Esperanto: “At-Taif”
  • Esperanto: “Ta’if”
  • Esperanto: “Taif”
  • Finnish: “Ta’if”
  • Finnish: “Taif”
  • French: “Ta’if”
  • French: “Tâ’if”
  • French: “Taef”
  • French: “Taëf”
  • French: “Taïf”
  • Fulah: “Taif”
  • Ga: “Ta’if”
  • German: “Al-Ṭā’if”
  • German: “At Ta’if”
  • German: “Ta’if”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ta’if”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Taif”
  • Greek: “Ταΐφ”
  • Gujarati: “તૈફ”
  • Hausa: “Ta’if”
  • Hebrew: “אלטאא’ף”
  • Hebrew: “טאא’ף”
  • Hebrew: “טאיף”
  • Hindi: “ताइफ”
  • Hindi: “ताइफ़”
  • Hindi: “ताईफ़”
  • Igbo: “Ta’if”
  • Indonesian: “Ta’if”
  • Indonesian: “Tha’if”
  • Indonesian: “Thaif”
  • Irish: “Ta’if”
  • Italian: “Ta’if”
  • Italian: “Tā’if”
  • Japanese: “Ta’if”
  • Japanese: “ターイフ”
  • Javanese: “Ta’if”
  • Kannada: “ತಾಯಿಫ್”
  • Kashmiri: “طایِف”
  • Kazakh: “Taïf”
  • Kazakh: “Таиф қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Таиф”
  • Kazakh: “تاىيف”
  • Korean: “타이프”
  • Kurdish: “Taif”
  • Kurdish: “Taîf”
  • Latin: “Taifum”
  • Latvian: “Tāifa”
  • Lithuanian: “Taifas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ta’if”
  • Malay: “Taif”
  • Malayalam: “താഇഫ്”
  • Malayalam: “ത്വാഇഫ്”
  • Marathi: “ताइफ”
  • Mazanderani: “طائف”
  • Mingrelian: “ტაიფი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taif”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ta’if”
  • Norwegian: “Taif”
  • Ossetian: “Таиф”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਇਫ਼”
  • Persian: “طائف”
  • Persian: “طایف”
  • Polish: “At-Ta’if”
  • Polish: “At-Taif”
  • Polish: “Taif”
  • Portuguese: “Ta’if”
  • Portuguese: “Taife”
  • Russian: “Аль-Таиф”
  • Russian: “Ат-Таиф”
  • Russian: “Таиф”
  • Russian: “Эт-Таиф”
  • Saraiki: “طائف”
  • Scots: “Aṭ-Ṭā’if”
  • Scots: “Ta’if”
  • Scots: “Taif”
  • Serbian: “Taif”
  • Serbian: “Таиф”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Taif”
  • Sindhi: “طائف”
  • Sinhala: “ටායිෆ්”
  • Slovenian: “Taif”
  • Somali: “Daa’if”
  • Spanish: “Taif”
  • Sundanese: “Ta’if”
  • Swedish: “al-Taif”
  • Swedish: “at-Taif”
  • Swedish: “Taif”
  • Tagalog: “Taif”
  • Tajik: “Тоиф”
  • Talysh: “Taif”
  • Tamil: “டைப்”
  • Tamil: “தயூப்”
  • Telugu: “తాయిఫ్”
  • Thai: “อัฏฏออิฟ”
  • Turkish: “Ta’if”
  • Turkish: “Taif”
  • Twi: “Ta’if”
  • Ukrainian: “Ет-Таїф”
  • Ukrainian: “Таїф”
  • Urdu: “الباحۃ”
  • Urdu: “طائف”
  • Uzbek: “Toif”
  • Venetian: “Ta’if”
  • Vietnamese: “Ta’if”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ta’if”
  • Western Panjabi: “طائف”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔伊夫”
  • Yiddish: “טאאיף”

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