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Al-'Aqabah

Al-'Aqabah (or Aqaba) is a city near the southern tip of الادنن (al-'Urdunn or Urdun or Jordan) at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba, with a population of nearly 112 thousand.1 Immediately to its west is אילת (Elat), ישראל (Yisra'el or Israel). Traditionally it is a commodity port,2 although future port expansion may take place to its nearby south. Tourism is increasingly important.

External references

view from the gulf to the port of al-'Aqabah

Footnotes

1. Calculation for 2013 in world-gazetteer.com, accessed 7/13/2013.
2. The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map. The symbol indicates phosphate, potash and/ or bauxite.