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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 700 residents
- Description: town in Egypt
- Also known as: “Taba, Egypt”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Taba Border Control and Steigenberger Hotel & Nelson Village.
Taba Border Control
Government office
The Taba Border Crossing, also known in Israel as the Menachem Begin Crossing, is an international border crossing between Taba, in Egypt, and Eilat, in Israel. The Taba Border Crossing is the southernmost point in Israel.
Steigenberger Hotel & Nelson Village
Hotel
The Steigenberger Hotel & Nelson Village is a resort hotel in Taba, Egypt, just over 100 metres from the southern border between Egypt and Israel.
The Underwater Observatory Marine Park
Public aquarium
Eilat's Coral World Underwater Observatory is a public aquarium, park and conservation center located in Eilat, Israel. It is the biggest public aquarium in Israel, and it hosts over 800 species.
Taba
- Categories: city, resort town, border city, and locality
- Location: South Sinai, Sinai, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.4928° or 29° 29′ 34″ northLongitude
34.8924° or 34° 53′ 33″ eastPopulation
700Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
TCPOpen location code
7GXPFVVR+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 768798152OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Taba from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Taba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Ţābah”
- Arabic: “طابا”
- Arabic: “منطقة 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: “א-טאבה”
- Hebrew: “אלטאבה”
- Hebrew: “טאבה”
- Hebrew: “טבה”
- Hindi: “टाबा”
- Igbo: “Taba”
- Irish: “Taba”
- Italian: “Taba”
- Japanese: “ターバー”
- 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Taba”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.