Taba
Taba, in the eastern Sinai peninsula of Egypt, is on the border with Israel, close to the city and airport of Eilat. The area within one km of the border is a duty-free zone with a couple of large resort hotels, a few shops, the bus station and other amenities.
- Type: Town with 700 residents
- Description: town in Egypt
- Also known as: “Taba, Egypt”, “א-טאבה”, “אלטאבה”, “טבה”, “منطقة طابا”, and “ターバー”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Taba Border Control and Steigenberger Hotel & Nelson Village.
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Taba
- Categories: city, resort town, border city, and locality
- Location: South Sinai, Sinai, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.4928° or 29° 29′ 34″ north
Longitude
34.8924° or 34° 53′ 33″ east
Population
700
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
TCP
Open location code
7GXPFVVR+4W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Taba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Ţābah”
- Arabic: “طابا”
- Asturian: “Taba”
- Bulgarian: “Таба”
- Catalan: “Taba”
- Cebuano: “Ţābā”
- Chinese: “塔巴”
- Czech: “Taba”
- Danish: “Taba”
- Dutch: “Taba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “طابا”
- Esperanto: “Taba”
- Finnish: “Taba (Egypti)”
- Finnish: “Taba”
- French: “Taba”
- Georgian: “ტაბა”
- German: “Taba”
- German: “Ṭābā”
- Greek: “Τάμπα”
- Hebrew: “טאבה”
- Hindi: “टाबा”
- Hindi: “ताबा”
- Hungarian: “Taba”
- Igbo: “Taba”
- Irish: “Taba”
- Italian: “Taba”
- Japanese: “タバ”
- Korean: “타바”
- Lithuanian: “Taba”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taba”
- Norwegian: “Taba”
- Persian: “طابا”
- Polish: “Taba”
- Portuguese: “Taba”
- Romanian: “Taba, Egipt”
- Russian: “Таба”
- Scots: “Taba”
- Serbian: “Таба”
- Sindhi: “طابا، مصر”
- Slovak: “Taba”
- Slovak: “Tábá”
- South Azerbaijani: “طابا”
- Spanish: “Taba”
- Swahili: “Taba, Misri”
- Swedish: “Taba”
- Turkish: “Taba (Mısır)”
- Turkish: “Taba”
- Ukrainian: “Таба”
- Urdu: “طابا، مصر”
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