Eilat

Eilat
Eilat; אֵילַת‎; ايلات‎;
	Eilat
	Coordinates: 29°33′N 34°57′E / 29.550°N 34.950°ECoordinates: 29°33′N 34°57′E / 29.550°N 34.950°E
Destrict	Soothren
Foondit	1951
Govrenment
• Teep	(frae 1959)
• Head of Municipality	Meir Yitzhak Halevi
Area
• Total	84.789 km2 (32.737 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Total	49,734
• Density	590/km2 (1,500/sq mi)

Eilat (Hebrew: אֵילַת‬, Arabic: إيلات‎ (audio) (help·info)) is Israel's soothmaist ceity, a busy port as well as a popular resort, locatit at the northren tip o the Red Sea, on the Gulf o Eilat (or Gulf o Aqaba). Hame tae 49,734 fowk,^[2] the ceity is pairt o the Soothren Negev Desert, at the soothren end o the Arava. The ceity is adjacent tae the Egyptian veelage o Taba tae the sooth, the Jordanian port ceity o Aqaba tae the east, an athin sicht o Saudi Arabie tae the sooth-east, athort the gulf. Eilat's arid desert climate is moderatit bi proximity tae a warm sea. Temperaturs aften exceed 40 °C (104 °F) in simmer, an 21 °C (70 °F) in winter, while watter temperaturs range atween 20 an 26 °C (68 an 79 °F). The ceity's beaches, nichtlife an desert landscapes mak it a popular destination for domestic an internaitional tourism.

Geography

Amram pillars

The geology an landscape are varied: igneous an metamorphic rocks, sandstane an limestane; muntains up tae 892 metres (2,927 ft) abuin sea level; broad valleys such as the Arava, an seashore on the Gulf o Aqaba. With an annual average rainfaw o 28 millimetres (1.1 in) an simmer temperaturs o 40 °C (104 °F) an heicher, watter resoorces an vegetation are leemitit. The main elements that influenced the region's history wur the copper resoorces an ither minerals, the auncient internaitional roads that crossed the aurie, an its geopoleetical an strategic position. These resultit in a settlement density that defies the environmental conditions.^[3]