Tayma
Tayma, also spelled Tema, is a city and governorate, in Tabuk Province, and major oasis with a long history of habitation. It is located in northwestern Saudi Arabia at the point where the trade route between Medina and Dumah begins to cross the Nafud desert.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 30,400 residents
- Description: city in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Taimah”, “Tayma‘”, “Taymā’”, “Taymah”, and “Tejma”
Tayma
- Categories: oasis, archaeological site, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Tabuk Region, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
27.6226° or 27° 37′ 21″ northLongitude
38.53926° or 38° 32′ 21″ eastPopulation
30,400Elevation
834 metres (2,736 feet)Open location code
7GVWJGFQ+2POpenStreetMap ID
node 1237942492OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
101516Wikidata ID
Q27365
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Tayma” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيماء (مدينه)”
- Arabic: “تيماء”
- Bosnian: “Tema”
- Catalan: “Tayma”
- Chinese: “泰馬”
- Czech: “Tajmá”
- Dutch: “Tayma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة تيماء”
- French: “Tayma”
- French: “Teima”
- Georgian: “ტაიმა”
- German: “Tayma”
- German: “Taymāʾ”
- Hebrew: “תימא”
- Indonesian: “Tayma”
- Indonesian: “Teman, Arab Saudi”
- Indonesian: “Teman”
- Irish: “Tayma”
- Italian: “Tayma”
- Japanese: “タイマ(都市)”
- Japanese: “タイマー”
- Japanese: “テイマ(都市)”
- Nepali: “तेइमा”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tayma”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tayma”
- Persian: “تیما”
- Polish: “Oaza Tema”
- Polish: “Tajma”
- Portuguese: “Taima”
- Portuguese: “Tayma”
- Russian: “Тайма”
- Spanish: “Taima”
- Spanish: “Tayma”
- Tagalog: “Tayma”
- Thai: “ตัยมาอ์”
- Turkish: “Teyma”
- Ukrainian: “Тема”
- Urdu: “الباحۃ”
- Urdu: “تیما”
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