Tel Aviv

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 תל אביב (Ebreu) تل أَبيب (Arabic)
Ceety
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
Banner Coat airms
Eik-name(s):  The White Ceety, The Ceety That Niver Sleeps, The Big Orange[1]
Tel Aviv Location in Israel
Coordinates: 32°4′N 34°47′E
Kintra	Israel
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

Location o Tel Aviv in the Tel Aviv Destrict

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

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

Tel Aviv haes a pairtnership wi Los Angeles, Californie, USA an is twinned wi:

San Salvador, El Salvador Mexico Ceety, Mexico Toulouse, Fraunce, syne 1962 Philadelphia, Unitit States, syne 1967 Cologne, Germany, syne 1979 Frankfurt, Germany, syne 1980[23] Bonn, Germany, syne 1983 Buenos Aires, Argentinae, syne 1988 Budapest, Hungary, syne 1989[24] Belgrade, Serbie, syne 1990 Warsaw, Poland, syne 1992[25][26] Essen, Germany, syne 1992[27]

Sofia, Bulgarie, syne 1992 Cannes, Fraunce, syne 1993 Łódź, Poland, syne 1994 Milan, Italy, syne 1994[28] Thessaloniki, Greece, since 1994[29] Beijing, Cheenae, synee 1995 New York Ceety, Unitit States, syne 1996 Barcelona, Spain, synee 1998[30]

İzmir, Turkey, syne 1998 Gaza, Palestine, syne 1998 Almaty, Kazakhstan, syne 1999 Chişinău, Moldovae, syne 2000 Incheon, Sooth Korea, syne 2000 Limassol, Cyprus, syne 2000 Moscow, Roushie, syne 2000 São Paulo, Brazil, syne 2004[31][32][33] Vienna, Austrick, syne 2005 Paris, Fraunce syne 2010 Ottawa, Canadae, syne 2011

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21. Beuk o Ezekiel 3:15
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24. "Sister cities of Budapest" (in Hungarian). Official Website of Budapest. Archived frae the original on 9 Mairch 2005. Retrieved 1 Julie 2009.
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28. "Milano - Città Gemellate". © 2008 Municipality of Milan (Comune di Milano). Archived frae the original on 10 Apryle 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
29. "Twinning Cities". City of Thessaloniki. Archived frae the original on 31 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 7 Julie 2009.
30. "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 |publisher= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
31. "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.
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