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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv is the second largest city in , and the largest metropolitan area. It is on the Mediterranean coast, about 60 km northwest of Jerusalem and 100 km south of .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Jaffa and Center.

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, also called Japho, Joppa or Joppe in English, is an ancient Levantine port city which is part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, , located in its southern part.

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Central Tel Aviv is the most important area in Tel Aviv for visitors…

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is the wealthiest area of the city, and one of the wealthiest places in all of Israel. This area extends from the northern border of the city to the Yarkon River.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South and East.

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South Tel Aviv and East Tel Aviv are two overlapping areas of Tel Aviv.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Habima Theatre and Eretz Israel Museum.

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The is the national theatre of and one of the first Hebrew language theatres. It is located in Habima Square in the center of Tel Aviv.

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The is a historical and archaeological museum in the neighborhood of Tel Aviv, . , established in 1953 as the Haaretz Museum, has a large display of archaeological, anthropological and historical artifacts organized in a series of exhibition pavilions on its grounds.

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is a complex of three skyscrapers in Tel Aviv. At the base of the complex lies a large shopping mall. The complex was designed by Israeli-American architect Eli Attia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak.

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is a city in , to the immediate east of Tel Aviv, which almost acts as an extension of it. is an eclectic town famous for many things totally unrelated to each other, including diamonds, football, malls, chocolates, Iraqi restaurants, a religious university, and an open-space African safari with lions.

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, also spelled Bene Beraq, is an Israeli city. It lies in the Gush Dan district of which Tel Aviv is the largest city, between and Petach Tikvah.

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is a small city of nearly 30,000 in . It is in the Center District, which also includes Tel Aviv, , and .

Tel Aviv

Latitude
32.0853° or 32° 5′ 7″ north
Longitude
34.7818° or 34° 46′ 55″ east
Population
468,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
TLV
United Nations Location Code
IL TLV
Open location code
8G4P3QPJ+4P
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
293397
Wiki­data ID
Q33935
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Tel Aviv” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tel Aviv”
  • Albanian: “Tel Aviv-Jafa”
  • Albanian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Amharic: “ተል አቪቭ”
  • Amharic: “ቴል አቪቭ”
  • Arabic: “تل أبيب – يافا”
  • Arabic: “تل أبيب يافا”
  • Arabic: “تل أبيب”
  • Arabic: “تل ابيب”
  • Arabic: “تل الربيع”
  • Armenian: “Թել Ավիվ-Յաֆո”
  • Armenian: “Թել Ավիվ”
  • Asturian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Awadhi: “तेल अभिभ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tel-Əviv”
  • Azerbaijani: “Təl Əviv”
  • Azerbaijani: “Təl-Əviv”
  • Balinese: “Tel Aviv”
  • Bashkir: “Тель-Авив”
  • Basque: “Tel Aviv”
  • Bavarian: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Bavarian: “Tel Aviv-Jafo”
  • Bavarian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Belarusian: “Тэль-Авіў”
  • Bengali: “তেল আবিব”
  • Bengali: “তেল আভিভ”
  • Bengali: “তেলআবিব”
  • Bosnian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Breton: “Tel Aviv”
  • Bulgarian: “Тел Авив-Яфо”
  • Bulgarian: “Тел Авив”
  • Catalan: “Jafa”
  • Catalan: “Tel Aviv-Jafa”
  • Catalan: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Catalan: “Tel Aviv”
  • Catalan: “Tel-Aviv-Jafa”
  • Catalan: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Cebuano: “Tel Aviv”
  • Central Bikol: “Tel Aviv”
  • Central Kanuri: “Tel Aviv”
  • Central Kurdish: “تێل ئەڤیڤ”
  • Chechen: “Тель-Авив”
  • Chinese: “台拉維夫”
  • Chinese: “特拉維夫”
  • Chinese: “特拉维夫-雅法”
  • Chinese: “特拉维夫”
  • Chinese: “臺拉維夫”
  • Chuvash: “Тель-Авив”
  • Corsican: “Tel Aviv-Ghjaffa”
  • Corsican: “Tel Aviv”
  • Croatian: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Croatian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Czech: “Tel Aviv-Jafo”
  • Czech: “Tel Aviv”
  • Czech: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Danish: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Danish: “Tel Aviv”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tel Aviv”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tel Eviv”
  • Dutch: “Tel Aviv - Jaffo”
  • Dutch: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Dutch: “Tel Aviv-Yafo”
  • Dutch: “Tel Aviv”
  • Dutch: “Tel-Aviv Jaffo”
  • Dutch: “Tel-Aviv Jafo”
  • Dutch: “Tel-Aviv Yaffo”
  • Dutch: “Tel-Aviv Yafo”
  • Dutch: “Tel-Aviv-Jaffo”
  • Dutch: “Tel-Aviv-Jafo”
  • Dutch: “Tel-Aviv-Yaffo”
  • Dutch: “Tel-Aviv-Yafo”
  • Dutch: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Dutch: “תל אביב-יפו”
  • Eastern Mari: “Тель-Авив”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تل ابيب”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تل الربيع”
  • Erzya: “Тель-Авив”
  • Esperanto: “Tel Aviv”
  • Esperanto: “Tel Avivo”
  • Esperanto: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Esperanto: “Tel-Avivo”
  • Esperanto: “Telavivo”
  • Estonian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Estonian: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Extremaduran: “Tel Aviv”
  • Faroese: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Faroese: “Tel Aviv”
  • Finnish: “Tel Aviv”
  • Finnish: “Tel-Aviv”
  • French: “Tel Aviv City”
  • French: “Tel Aviv Jaffa”
  • French: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • French: “Tel Aviv-Jafo”
  • French: “Tel Aviv-Yafo”
  • French: “Tel Aviv”
  • French: “Tel-Aviv Jaffa”
  • French: “Tel-Aviv-Jaffa”
  • French: “Tel-aviv”
  • French: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Galician: “Tel Aviv”
  • Galician: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Georgian: “თელ-ავივ-იაფო”
  • Georgian: “თელ-ავივი”
  • German: “Achuzat Bayit”
  • German: “Ahuzat Bayit”
  • German: “Jaffa”
  • German: “Jafo”
  • German: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • German: “Tel Aviv-Yafo”
  • German: “Tel Aviv”
  • Greek: “Τελ Αβίβ - Γιάφφα”
  • Greek: “Τελ Αβίβ”
  • Guarani: “Tel Aviv”
  • Gujarati: “તેલ અવિવ”
  • Haitian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Hausa: “Tel Abib”
  • Hebrew: “ת’א-יפו”
  • Hebrew: “ת’א”
  • Hebrew: “תל אביב - יפו”
  • Hebrew: “תל אביב -יפו”
  • Hebrew: “תל אביב יפו”
  • Hebrew: “תל אביב-יפו”
  • Hebrew: “תל אביב–יפו”
  • Hebrew: “תל אביב”
  • Hebrew: “תל-אביב-יפו”
  • Hebrew: “תל-אביב”
  • Hebrew: “תל־אביב-יפו”
  • Hebrew: “תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ”
  • Hebrew: “תל־אביב–יפו”
  • Hebrew: “תֵּל־אָבִיב–יָפוֹ”
  • Hebrew: “תל־אביב־יפו”
  • Hebrew: “תל־אביב”
  • Hebrew: “תֵּל־אָבִיב”
  • Hindi: “तेल अविव”
  • Hungarian: “Tel Aviv Jaffa”
  • Hungarian: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Hungarian: “Tel Aviv-Yafo”
  • Hungarian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Hungarian: “Tel-Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Hungarian: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Icelandic: “Tel Aviv”
  • Icelandic: “Tel Avív”
  • Ido: “Tel Aviv”
  • Iloko: “Tel Aviv”
  • Inari Sami: “Tel Aviv”
  • Indonesian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Interlingua: “Tel Aviv”
  • Interlingue: “Tel Aviv”
  • Irish: “Tel Aviv”
  • Italian: “Tel Aviv-Giaffa”
  • Italian: “Tel Aviv-Yafo”
  • Italian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Italian: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Japanese: “テル・アヴィーヴ”
  • Japanese: “テル・アヴィヴ”
  • Japanese: “テル・アヴィブ”
  • Japanese: “テル・アビーブ”
  • Japanese: “テル・アビブ”
  • Japanese: “テルアヴィヴ”
  • Japanese: “テルアビブ”
  • Javanese: “Tel Aviv”
  • Kabyle: “Tel Aviv”
  • Kabyle: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tel Aviv”
  • Kannada: “ಟೆಲ್ ಅವಿವ್”
  • Kannada: “ಟೆಲ್ ಅವೀವ್ - ಜ್ಯಾಫ”
  • Kannada: “ತೇಲ್ ಅವಿವ್”
  • Kazakh: “Тель-Авив”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tel Aviv”
  • Kirghiz: “Тель-Авив”
  • Korean: “텔 아비브”
  • Korean: “텔아비브 야파”
  • Korean: “텔아비브”
  • Korean: “텔아비브야파”
  • Korean: “텔아비브자파”
  • Kurdish: “Tel Avîv”
  • Kurdish: “Tel Evîv”
  • Ladino: “Tel Aviv”
  • Latin: “Telavivum-Ioppa”
  • Latin: “Telavivum”
  • Latin: “Vernicollis”
  • Latvian: “Telaviva”
  • Latvian: “Televiva”
  • Ligurian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Limburgan: “Tel Aviv”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tel Aviv”
  • Lithuanian: “Jafa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tel Avivas”
  • Lombard: “Tel Aviv”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tel Aviv”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Macedonian: “Тел Авив”
  • Malagasy: “Tel-Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Malay: “Tel Aviv”
  • Malay: “تيل اۏيۏ”
  • Malayalam: “Tel Aviv”
  • Malayalam: “ടെൽ അവീവ്”
  • Malayalam: “തെൽ അവീവ്”
  • Maltese: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Maltese: “Tel Aviv”
  • Manx: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Manx: “Tel Aviv-Jafo”
  • Manx: “Tel Aviv-Yafo”
  • Manx: “Tel Aviv”
  • Maori: “Terawiwi”
  • Marathi: “तेल अविव”
  • Marathi: “तेल अवीव याफो”
  • Marathi: “तेल अवीव”
  • Marathi: “तेल अवीव्ह”
  • Mazanderani: “تل آویو”
  • Minangkabau: “Tel Aviv”
  • Mingrelian: “თელ-ავივი”
  • Moksha: “Тэль-Авив”
  • Mongolian: “Тел Авив”
  • Mongolian: “Тел-Авив”
  • Mongolian: “Тель-Авив”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “تل أبيب”
  • Nepali: “तेल अभिभ”
  • Newari: “तेल अभिव”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Northern Luri: “تئل آڤیڤ”
  • Northern Luri: “تل آڤیڤ”
  • Northern Sami: “Tel Aviv”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tel Aviv”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tel-Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tel Aviv”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Norwegian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Novial: “Tel Aviv”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tel Aviv”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܝܘܦܝ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܝܘܦܦܝ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܘܐܦܝ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܘܦܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܘܦܝ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܘܦܦܝ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܠ ܐܒܝܒ ܝܦܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܠ ܐܒܝܒ ܝܦܘ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܠ ܐܒܝܒ-ܝܦܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܠ ܐܒܝܒ-ܝܦܘ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܠ ܐܒܝܒ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Telfafif”
  • Oriya: “ତେଲ ଆଭିଭ”
  • Ossetian: “Тель-Авив”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਲ ਅਵੀਵ”
  • Papiamento: “Tel Aviv”
  • Persian: “تل آویو یافو”
  • Persian: “تل آویو”
  • Persian: “تل اویو یافو”
  • Persian: “تل اویو”
  • Persian: “تل‌آویو یافو”
  • Persian: “تل‌آویو”
  • Persian: “تل‌اویو یافو”
  • Persian: “تل‌اویو”
  • Persian: “تلاویو”
  • Persian: “شهر تل‌آویو”
  • Piemontese: “Tel Aviv”
  • Polish: “Tel Aviv Jafa”
  • Polish: “Tel Aviv”
  • Polish: “Tel Awiw-Jafa”
  • Polish: “Tel Awiw”
  • Polish: “Tel-Aviv-Yafa”
  • Polish: “Tel-Awiw”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Tel Aviv”
  • Portuguese: “Tel Aviv-Jafa”
  • Portuguese: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Portuguese: “Tel aviv-yafo”
  • Portuguese: “Tel Aviv, Israel”
  • Portuguese: “Tel Aviv”
  • Portuguese: “Tel-aviv”
  • Portuguese: “Telavive”
  • Portuguese: “TLV”
  • Pushto: “تل آبيب”
  • Pushto: “تل آویو”
  • Pushto: “تل ابيب”
  • Pushto: “تل اويو”
  • Quechua: “Tel Aviv”
  • Romanian: “Tel Aviv City”
  • Romanian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Romanian: “Tel-Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Romanian: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тель-Авив”
  • Russian: “Тель-Авив — Яффо”
  • Russian: “Тель-Авив-Яффо”
  • Russian: “Тель-Авив”
  • Samogitian: “Tel Avėvs”
  • Samogitian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱮᱞ ᱟᱵᱤᱵᱽ”
  • Sardinian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Tel Aviv”
  • Scots: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Scots: “Tel Aviv-Yafo”
  • Scots: “Tel Aviv”
  • Scots: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tel Aviv”
  • Serbian: “Тел Авив-Јафо”
  • Serbian: “Тел Авив”
  • Serbian: “תל אביב-יפו”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Sicilian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Silesian: “Tel Awiw-Jafa”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙල් අවිව්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tel Aviv”
  • Slovak: “Tel Aviv - Jafo”
  • Slovak: “Tel Aviv-Jafo”
  • Slovak: “Tel Aviv”
  • Slovenian: “Tel Aviv”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تل آویو”
  • Spanish: “Tel Aviv Yafo”
  • Spanish: “Tel Aviv-Yafo”
  • Spanish: “Tel Aviv”
  • Spanish: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵍ ⴰⴱⵉⴱ”
  • Swahili: “Tel Aviv”
  • Swedish: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Swedish: “Tel Aviv”
  • Swedish: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Swedish: “Telaviv”
  • Swiss German: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Tel Aviv-Yafo”
  • Tagalog: “Tel Abib”
  • Tagalog: “Tel Aviv-Yafo”
  • Tagalog: “Tel Aviv”
  • Tagalog: “Tel-Abib”
  • Tagalog: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Tajik: “Талл-Абиб”
  • Tajik: “Тел-Авив”
  • Talysh: “Tel Aviv”
  • Tamil: “டெல் அவீவ்”
  • Tamil: “தெல் அவிவ்”
  • Tamil: “தெல் அவீவ்”
  • Tatar: “Tel-Äviv”
  • Tatar: “Тел-Әвив”
  • Telugu: “టెల్ అవీవ్”
  • Thai: “Tel Aviv”
  • Thai: “เทล อาวีฟ”
  • Thai: “เทลอาวีฟ-ยาโฟ”
  • Thai: “เทลอาวีฟ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa”
  • Turkish: “Tel Aviv”
  • Turkish: “Tel-aviv-yafa”
  • Turkish: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Turkish: “Telaviv”
  • Turkmen: “Tel Awiw”
  • Tyap: “Tel A̱vip”
  • Uighur: “Télawif”
  • Uighur: “تېلاۋىف”
  • Ukrainian: “Тель-Авів-Яфо”
  • Ukrainian: “Тель-Авів-Яффа”
  • Ukrainian: “Тель-Авів-Яффо”
  • Ukrainian: “Тель-Авів—Яффа”
  • Ukrainian: “Тель-Авів—Яффо”
  • Ukrainian: “Тель-Авів”
  • Urdu: “تل آویو”
  • Urdu: “تل ابیب یافا”
  • Urdu: “تل ابیب”
  • Urdu: “تل اویو”
  • Urdu: “تیل آویو یافو”
  • Urdu: “تیل آویو”
  • Urdu: “تیل اویو”
  • Uzbek: “Tel-aviv”
  • Uzbek: “Tel-Aviv”
  • Venetian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Veps: “Tel’ Aviv”
  • Veps: “Tel‘-Aviv”
  • Vietnamese: “Tel Aviv”
  • Volapük: “Tel Aviv”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tel Aviv”
  • Welsh: “Tel Aviv”
  • Western Armenian: “Թել Աւիւ”
  • Western Frisian: “Tel Aviv”
  • Western Panjabi: “تل ابیب یافا”
  • Western Panjabi: “تل ابیب”
  • Wu Chinese: “特拉维夫”
  • Yakut: “Тель-Авив”
  • Yiddish: “תל אביב-יפו”
  • Yiddish: “תל אביב”
  • Yiddish: “תל אבֿיבֿ”
  • Yiddish: “תל-אביב”
  • Yiddish: “תּל־אבֿיבֿ”
  • Yiddish: “תּל־אָבֿיבֿ”
  • Yue Chinese: “特拉維夫”
  • Zeeuws: “Tel Aviv”
  • “ma tomo Telawi”
  • “Tel Avėvs”
  • “Tel Aviv”
  • “תל אביב-יפו”

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