Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Aqaba

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Also Called	Aila, Ayla
Latitude, Longitude	29.530676, 34.999999
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)	149631/-117437
Type	settlement
Point Precision	archaeological site in modern settlement
Coordinates Sources	Amud Anan Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992): Elath (place Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land GeoNames MEGAJordan OpenStreetMap Pleiades
General Location Notes	Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992) (Elath (place), Van der Woude, In Quest of the Past (1990): "1 km northeast of Aqaba, about 4 km from Tell Kheleifeh", which isn’t exactly here, but Van der Woude, In Quest of the Past (1990) (page 4) quotes the same source and places it at or near these coordinates
Precise Coordinates Notes	this is a point for the Roman city that was likely built over the older city
Geo Data	KML (for Google Earth) GeoJSON (for GIS applications)

Biblical places associated with Aqaba

Elath: medium confidence
El-paran: low confidence
Abronah: low confidence
Ezion-geber: very low confidence

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Credit: Bel Adone (modified)

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