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Highway 40 (Arabic: الطريق السريع ٤٠) is a major east–west six-lane controlled-access highway in Saudi Arabia, spanning 1,395 km (867 mi).The highway connects Jeddah, the second-largest city in the kingdom, on the western coast of Saudi Arabia to Dammam, the sixth-largest city on the eastern coast and the largest in the Eastern Province.
Transport in Saudi Arabia is facilitated through a relatively young system of roads, railways and seaways.Most of the network started construction after the discovery of oil in the Eastern Province in 1952, with the notable exception of Highway 40, which was built to connect the capital Riyadh to the economically productive Eastern Province, and later to the Islamic holy city of Mecca and the ...
Jeddah (English: / ˈ dʒ ɛ d ə / JED-ə), alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ d ə / JID-ə; Arabic: جِدَّة , romanized: Jidda, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [ˈ(d)ʒɪd.da]), is the largest city in Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, and the country's second largest city after Riyadh, located along the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz region.
Capital and largest city Jeddah: 3,751,917: Largest city of Mecca Province: Dammam: ... Map showing the major cities in Saudi Arabia. City Population [1] Comments Abha:
The city had an estimated population of 180,352 in 2014 [3] and is situated at an elevation of 13 m (43 ft) above sea level, [4] close to the border with the Madinah Province. The city dates back to the era before the advent of Islam in the 7th century C.E. , and up to the 17th century, was known as Al-Juhfah , or Al-Johfah ( Arabic ...
Aerial view with old South Terminal, the new Terminal 1 can be seen in the background. King Abdulaziz International Airport [a] (IATA: JED, ICAO: OEJN, colloquially referred to as Jeddah Airport, Jeddah International Airport, or KAIA), is a major international airport serving the cities of Jeddah and Mecca in Saudi Arabia, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Jeddah and covering an area of ...
Screenshot of Google Maps with traffic option enabled. In 2007, Google began offering traffic data as a colored overlay on top of roads and motorways to represent the speed of vehicles on particular roads. Crowdsourcing is used to obtain the GPS-determined locations of a large number of cellphone users, from which live traffic maps are produced.
The city is situated at latitude 28-26 N, longitude 48-30 E. It is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of the Saudi-Kuwaiti border, 130 kilometres (81 mi) south of Kuwait City and 300 kilometres (190 mi) north of Dammam.