Tel Aviv
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Frae upper left: Skyline o Rothschild boulevard, Azrieli Sarona Touer, Jaffa Clock Touer, Rabin Squerr, Tel Aviv Promenade, panorama o the ceety frae the Yitzhak Rabin Centre | ||||||||
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Coordinates: 32°4′N 34°47′E / 32.067°N 34.783°ECoordinates: 32°4′N 34°47′E / 32.067°N 34.783°E | ||||||||
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Destrict | Tel Aviv | |||||||
Metropolitan Aurie | Gush Dan | |||||||
Foondit | 11 Aprile 1909 | |||||||
Govrenment | ||||||||
• Teep | Mayor-cooncil | |||||||
• Bodi | Tel Aviv municipality | |||||||
• Mayor | Ron Huldai (Labor) | |||||||
Area | ||||||||
• Ceety | 52 km2 (20 sq mi) | |||||||
• Urban | 176 km2 (68 sq mi) | |||||||
• Metro | 1516 km2 (585 sq mi) | |||||||
Elevation | 5 m (16 ft) | |||||||
Population (2013)[2] | ||||||||
• Ceety | 410,000 | |||||||
• Rank | 2nt in Israel | |||||||
• Density | 7955.5/km2 (20,605/sq mi) | |||||||
• Density rank | 12t in Israel | |||||||
• Urban | 1,300,000 | |||||||
• Urban density | 7297.7/km2 (18,901/sq mi) | |||||||
• Metro | 3,405,000 | |||||||
• Metro density | 2193.7/km2 (5,682/sq mi) | |||||||
Demonym(s) | Tel Avivi | |||||||
Ethnicity | ||||||||
• Jews | 91% | |||||||
• Muslims | 3% | |||||||
• Christians | 1% | |||||||
• Unclassifee'd | 5% | |||||||
Time zone | UTC+2 (IST) | |||||||
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (IDT) | |||||||
Aurie code | +972 (Israel) 3 (Ceety) | |||||||
ISO 3166 code | IL-TA | |||||||
Website | tel-aviv.gov.il |
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Tel Aviv-Yafo (Ebreu: תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, lit. "Spring Moond"-Jaffa; Arabic: تل أبيب, Tall ʼAbīb),[3] uisually referred tae as Tel Aviv, is the seicont maist populous ceety in Israel, wi a population o 410,000.[2] The ceety is situated on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline, on a land aurie o 51.4 square kilometres (19.8 sq mi). It is the lairgest an maist populous ceety in the metropolitan aurie o Gush Dan. Residents o Tel Aviv are cawed Tel Avivians.[4]
Tel Aviv wis foondit in 1909 on the ootskirts o the ancient port ceety o Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ, Yafo; Arabic: يافا, Yaffa). The growth o Tel Aviv suin ootpaced Jaffa, which wis lairgely Arab at the time. Tel Aviv an Jaffa wur merged intae a single municipality in 1950, twa years efter the establishment o the State o Israel. Tel Aviv's White Ceety, designatit a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid in 2003, comprises the warld's lairgest concentration o Bauhaus biggins.[5][6][7]
Tel Aviv is classified as a beta+ warld ceety.[8] It is a major economic hub, hame tae the Tel Aviv Stock Exchynge an mony corporate offices an research an development centers.[9] Its beaches, parks, bars, cafés, restaurants, shoppin, cosmopolitan lifestyle an 24-hour cultur hae made it a popular tourist destination for domestic an owerseas tourists alike, contributin tae its reputation as "the ceety that niver sleeps.[10][11][12] Tel Aviv is the kintra's financial caipital a a major performing airts an business centre.[13] The economy o Tel Aviv wis ranked seicont in the Middle East,[14] an 50t globally bi Foreign Policy's 2010 Global Ceeties Index.[15] It is the maist expensive ceety in the region, an the 17t maist expensive ceety in the warld.[16] New York Ceety-based writer an editor David Kaufman named it the "Mediterranean's New Caipital o Cool".[17] In 2010, Tel Aviv haes been named the third-best ceety in the warld bi Lonely Planet, third-best in the Middle East & Africae bi Travel + Leisure magazine, an ane o the best beach ceeties in the warld bi National Geographic.[18][19][20]
Etymology
[eedit | eedit soorce]The name Tel Aviv (literally "Spring Moond") wis chosen in 1910 amang mony suggestions, includin "Herzliya". Tel Aviv is the Ebreu title o Theodor Herzl's beuk Altneuland ("Auld New Land"), translatit frae German bi Nahum Sokolow. Sokolow teuk the name frae Ezekiel 3:15: "Then A came tae them o the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived bi the river Chebar, an tae where they lived; an A sat there owerwhelmed amang them seiven days."[21] This name wis foond fittin as it embraced the idea o the renaissance o the auncient Jewish hameland. Aviv is Ebreu for "spring", seembolizin renewal, an tel is an airchaeological site that reveals layers o ceevilization built ane ower the ither.[22] Theories vary aboot the etymology o Jaffa or Yafo in Ebreu. Some believe that the name derives frae yafah or yofi, Ebreu for "bonnie" or "beauty". Anither tradition is that Japheth, son o Noah, foondit the ceety and that it wis named for him. The name is an aa transliteratit as Tel-Abib in the Keeng James Bible.
Twin touns — Sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Tel Aviv haes a pairtnership wi Los Angeles, Californie, USA an is twinned wi:
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References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ NYT Travel – Introduction to Tel Aviv
- ↑ a b "לוח 3.- אוכלוסייה( 1), ביישובים שמנו מעל 2,000 תושבים( 2) ושאר אוכלוסייה כפרית Population (1) of localities numbering above 2,000 Residents (2) and other rural population" (PDF). Retrieved 25 Januar 2010. Cite journal requires
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(help) - ↑ Tel Aviv is also commonly written in Hebrew without the hyphen (תל אביב).
- ↑ "Tel Aviv Municipality". Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality. Archived frae the original on 22 Apryle 2007. Retrieved 2 Februar 2008.
- ↑ "The White City of Tel Aviv" (PDF). UNESCO. Retrieved 29 Mairch 2008.
- ↑ Strimpel, Zoe (16 Februar 2008). "Hip and happening in Tel Aviv". The Times. London. Retrieved 16 Februar 2008.
- ↑ "Economist City Guide-Tel Aviv". The Economist. Retrieved 21 Januar 2008.
- ↑ "GaWC - The World According to GaWC 2008". Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Retrieved 1 Mairch 2009.
- ↑ "New Economy: Silicon Wadi". Wired. 16 Apryle 1998. Archived frae the original on 29 Juin 2012. Retrieved 2 Februar 2008.
- ↑ "The world's top 10 party towns". Sydney Morning Herald. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
- ↑ "An ugly scrap at Heathrow for the 'best-looking kid on the block'". London: Independent on Sunday. 30 Mairch 2008. Archived frae the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 30 Mairch 2008.
- ↑ Burchill, Julie (3 Apryle 2010). "Tel Aviv, Eilat and beautiful Jerusalem". London: The Times. Retrieved 3 Apryle 2010.
- ↑ Kipnis, B.A. (8 October 2001). "Tel Aviv, Israel – A World City in Evolution: Urban Development at a Deadend of the Global Economy". Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network at Loughborough University. Retrieved 17 Julie 2007. Cities in Transition. Ljubljana: Department of Geography, University of Ljubljana, pp. 183–194.
- ↑ "The 150 Richest Cities in the World by GDP in 2005". Retrieved 13 Januar 2009.
- ↑ "The 2010 Global Cities Index". Archived frae the original on 2 Februar 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
- ↑ "Cost of living — The world's most expensive cities". City Mayors.
- ↑ Instant weekend ... Tel Aviv, By David Kaufman, The Guardian, Published November 4, 2007.
- ↑ "Tel Aviv ranked world's 3rd hottest city for 2011". Retrieved 1 November 2010.
- ↑ "World's Best Awards 2010 - Africa and the Middle East". Retrieved 11 Julie 2010.
- ↑ "Top 10 Beach Cities". Archived frae the original on 12 Julie 2010. Retrieved 30 Julie 2010.
- ↑ Beuk o Ezekiel 3:15
- ↑ "Tel Aviv". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 18 Julie 2007.
- ↑ "Frankfurt -Partner Cities". © 2008 Stadt Frankfurt am Main. Archived frae the original on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2008. freemit airtin in
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(help) - ↑ "Sister cities of Budapest" (in Hungarian). Official Website of Budapest. Archived frae the original on 9 Mairch 2005. Retrieved 1 Julie 2009.
- ↑ http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Hebrew/Cityhall/TwinCities/Index.asp Archived 2009-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Miasta partnerskie Warszawy". um.warszawa.pl. Biuro Promocji Miasta. 4 Mey 2005. Archived frae the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 29 August 2008.
- ↑ "List of Twin Towns in the Ruhr Destrict" (PDF). © 2009 Twins2010.com. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 28 November 2009. Retrieved 28 October 2009. freemit airtin in
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(help) - ↑ "Milano - Città Gemellate". © 2008 Municipality of Milan (Comune di Milano). Archived frae the original on 10 Apryle 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
- ↑ "Twinning Cities". City of Thessaloniki. Archived frae the original on 31 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 7 Julie 2009.
- ↑ "Barcelona internacional - Ciutats agermanades" (in Spanish). © 2006-2009 Ajuntament de Barcelona. Archived frae the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 13 Julie 2009. freemit airtin in
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(help)CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link) - ↑ "São Paulo - Sister Cities Program". © 2005-2008 Fiscolegis - Todos os direitos reservados Editora de publicações periodicas - LTDA / © 2008 City of São Paulo. Archived frae the original on 17 Mey 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- ↑ Prefeitura.Sp - Descentralized Cooperation Archived 2008-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ International Relations - São Paulo City Hall - Official Sister Cities
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