Layla
Layla is a town in central Saudi Arabia. It is the principal town of the Al-Aflaj oasis in Riyadh Region, some 330 km south of the capital, Riyadh. It is believed to have been named after Layla of Bani 'Amir, a 7th-century woman from the local tribe who was immortalized in the poetry of her lover Qays ibn Al-Mulawwah.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 30,900 residents
- Description: town in central Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Kharfh”, “Laila”, “Lailah”, “Laylá”, and “Laylah”
Layla
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
22.29295° or 22° 17′ 35″ northLongitude
46.71716° or 46° 43′ 2″ eastPopulation
30,900Elevation
541 metres (1,775 feet)Open location code
7HJ87PV8+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1236714296OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
104716Wikidata ID
Q26958
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Layla” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الخرفة (مركز)”
- Arabic: “الخرفة”
- Arabic: “ليلى”
- Asturian: “Layla”
- Catalan: “Layla”
- Chinese: “萊拉”
- Dutch: “Layla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليلى”
- French: “Layla”
- German: “Layla”
- Irish: “Layla”
- Italian: “Layla”
- Kurdish: “Leyla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Layla i Saudi-Arabia”
- Persian: “لیلی (عربستان)”
- Persian: “لیلی”
- Polish: “Lajla”
- Russian: “Лайла”
- Silesian: “Lajla”
- Spanish: “Kharfh”
- Urdu: “لیلیٰ (الافلاج)”
- Urdu: “لیلیٰ”
- Vietnamese: “Layla”
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