Mina
Mina, nicknamed the "City of the Tents," is a valley located 8 kilometres southeast of the city of Mecca, in the district of Masha'er, Province of Makkah in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia.- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighborhood of Mecca in Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “City of the Tents”, “Mena”, “Mina, Saudi Arabia”, “Muná”, and “Tent City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jamaraat Bridge.
Jamaraat Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Jamaraat Bridge is a pedestrian bridge in Mina, Saudi Arabia, near Makkah used by Muslims during the Hajj ritual Stoning of the Devil. The purpose of the bridge is to enable pilgrims to throw stones at the three jamrah pillars either from the ground level or from the bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ajyad and Mecca.
Ajyad
Neighborhood
Ajyad is a historic neighborhood of Mecca in Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia. Ajya is directly south of Al Haram District. Ajyad is situated 7 km west of Mina.
Mecca
Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mecca, officially known as Makkah al-Mukarramah, is a city in Saudi Arabia and the holiest city in Islam. Mecca is the birthplace of Prophet Muhammed, the founder of Islam, and Muslims believe the Qur'an was first revealed to Muhammad here.
Mina
- Categories: neighborhood, sacred place, and locality
- Location: Mecca Region, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.41536° or 21° 24′ 55″ northLongitude
39.89251° or 39° 53′ 33″ eastElevation
352 metres (1,155 feet)Open location code
7GHXCV8V+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 7758270150OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Mina” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Mina, Arabia Saudite”
- Arabic: “منى”
- Azerbaijani: “Mina dağı”
- Azerbaijani: “Mina”
- Bashkir: “Мина”
- Basque: “Mina”
- Bengali: “মিনা”
- Bosnian: “Mina (Saudijska Arabija)”
- Bosnian: “Mina”
- Catalan: “Mina”
- Central Kurdish: “مینا”
- Chinese: “米納 (沙烏地阿拉伯)”
- Czech: “Miná”
- Danish: “Minā”
- Dutch: “Mina”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منى”
- Esperanto: “Mina (Sauda Arabio)”
- Esperanto: “Mina”
- French: “Mina”
- French: “Minâ”
- Ga: “Mina”
- German: “Minā”
- German: “Munā”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “City of de Tents”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mina, Saudi Arabia”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mina”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tent City”
- Hausa: “Mina”
- Hebrew: “מנא”
- Hindi: “मिना”
- Hindi: “मिनाह”
- Hindi: “मीनः”
- Hindi: “मीना, सउदी अरब”
- Hindi: “मीना”
- Hungarian: “Mina”
- Indonesian: “Mina, Arab Saudi”
- Italian: “Mina”
- Japanese: “ミナ (サウジアラビア)”
- Japanese: “ミナ （サウジアラビア）”
- Javanese: “Mina”
- Korean: “미나”
- Lithuanian: “Mina (Saudo Arabija)”
- Lithuanian: “Mina”
- Malay: “Mina, Arab Saudi”
- Malay: “Mina”
- Malayalam: “മിന”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Minā”
- Norwegian: “Minā”
- Persian: “سرزمین منا”
- Persian: “منا”
- Persian: “مِنیٰ”
- Portuguese: “Mina”
- Russian: “долина Мина”
- Russian: “Мина”
- Serbian: “Мина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mina”
- Spanish: “Mina”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵉⵏⴰ ,ⵜⴰⵄⵔⴰⴱⵜ ⵜⴰⵙⴰⵄⵓⴷⵉⵜ”
- Swedish: “Mina”
- Tajik: “Мино”
- Tamil: “மினா”
- Thai: “มินา”
- Turkish: “Mina, Mekke”
- Turkish: “Mina”
- Twi: “Mina”
- Ukrainian: “Міна”
- Urdu: “منی”
- Urdu: “منیٰ”
- Western Panjabi: “منا”
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