Taba

Taba, in the eastern peninsula of , is on the border with , close to the city and airport of . 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.
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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.

Government office
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The Taba Border Crossing, also known in Israel as the Menachem Begin Crossing, is an international border crossing between Taba, in , and , in . The Taba Border Crossing is the southernmost point in Israel.

Hotel
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The Steigenberger Hotel & Nelson Village is a resort hotel in Taba, Egypt, just over 100 metres from the .

Public aquarium
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Eilat's Coral World Underwater Observatory is a public aquarium, park and conservation center located in , Israel. It is the biggest public aquarium in Israel, and it hosts over 800 species.

Taba

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
node 768798152
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
347702
Wiki­data ID
Q867592
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Satellite Map

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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”
  • Hindi: “ताबा”
  • Hungarian: “Taba”
  • 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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