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Aqaba is the only seaport of Jordan so virtually all of Jordan's exports depart from here. Heavy machinery industry is also flourishing in the city with regional assembly plants being located in Aqaba such as the Land Rover Aqaba Assembly Plant. By 2008 the ASEZ had attracted $18bn in committed investments, beating its $6bn target by 2020 by a ...
The second number is the total number of distinct countries or territories that the country or territory borders. In this instance, if the country or territory shares two or more maritime boundaries with the same country or territory and the boundaries are unconnected, the boundaries are only counted once.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. Large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea Gulf of Aqaba Gulf of Eilat خَلِيج الْعَقَبَة (Arabic) מפרץ אילת (Hebrew) The Sinai Peninsula with the Gulf of Aqaba to the east and the Gulf of Suez to the west Gulf of Aqaba Location West Asia Coordinates 28°45′N ...
Eilat (/ eɪ ˈ l ɑː t / ay-LAHT, UK also / eɪ ˈ l æ t / ay-LAT; Hebrew: אֵילַת ⓘ; Arabic: إِيلَات, romanized: Īlāt) is Israel's southernmost city, with a population of 53,151, [1] a busy port and popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on what is known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat and in Jordan as the Gulf of Aqaba.
This is a list of countries with territory that straddles more than one continent, known as transcontinental states or intercontinental states. [1]Contiguous transcontinental countries are states that have one continuous or immediately-adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary, most commonly the line that separates Asia and Europe.
(Notes: Dependencies and islands remote from continental land masses [vague] are not considered and are excluded from this list section; thus only continental land borders are considered. The only countries listed either straddle continents or are on a continent border.)
The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries, the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies. See List of extinct countries, empires, etc. and Former countries in Europe after 1815 for articles about countries that are no longer in existence. See List of ...
Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary and the outlet of the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean; San Jorge Gulf, in Patagonian Southern Atlantic Ocean; San Matias Gulf, in Patagonian Southern Atlantic Ocean; Gulf of Uraba, the southernmost region in Caribbean Sea; Gulf of Venezuela, connecting the Caribbean Sean with ...