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Map showing the major cities in Saudi Arabia. City Population [1] Comments Abha: 334,290 (2022) Capital city of Asir Ad-Dilam: 39,267 (2022) Al-Abwa: Al Artaweeiyah:
Riyadh (/ riːˈjɑːd / ree-YAHD; [5] Arabic: الرياض, romanized: ar-Riyāḍ, standard pronunciation: [ar.riˈjaːdˤ], Najdi pronunciation: [er.rɪˈjɑːðˤ]; lit. 'the Meadows') is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. [6] It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the Riyadh Governorate. The current form ...
113.58 ha. Jeddah (English: / ˈdʒɛdə / JED-ə), alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda (/ ˈdʒɪdə / JID-ə; Arabic: جِدَّة, romanized: Jidda, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [ˈ (d)ʒɪd.da]), The largest city in Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, and second largest city after Riyadh located along the Red Sea coast in ...
Medina, [a] officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah (Arabic: المدينة المنورة, romanized: al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, lit. 'The Luminous City', Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [al.maˈdiːna al.mʊˈnawːara]) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (المدينة, al-Madina), is the capital of Medina Province (formerly known as Yathrib) in the Hejaz region of western Saudi ...
Mecca (/ ˈmɛkə /; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, [a] commonly shortened to Makkah[b]) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam. [4] It is 70 km (43 mi) inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow valley 277 m (909 ft) above sea level.
Banu Harith is one of the Qahtani Arabs tribes living around Ta'if in Saudi Arabia. The tribe claims a very large area around the city in the area between Ta'if and Qunfudhah in Saudi Arabia. Thu al-Isba' al-'Adwani was an Arabic poet and a man of wisdom from the Banu 'Adwan tribe that historically lived in the northern parts of Ta'if.
Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and most of its terrain consists of arid desert, lowland, steppe, and mountains. The capital and largest city is Riyadh; other major cities include Jeddah and the two holiest cities in Islam, Mecca and Medina.
This is a list of largest cities in the Arab world. The Arab world is here defined as the 22 member states of the Arab League. [1] ... Saudi Arabia: Riyadh: 7,676,654