Layla
Layla is a city in Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia, and the administrative seat of Al-Aflaj Governorate. The city is named after Layla al-Amiriyah, lover of the renowned poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah, whose story became one of the most famous love stories in Arabic literature and inspired the romance of Layla and Majnun.
- Type: City with 30,900 residents
- Description: town in central Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Laila”, “Lailah”, “Laylá”, and “Laylah”
Layla
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.29295° or 22° 17′ 35″ north
Longitude
46.71716° or 46° 43′ 2″ east
Population
30,900
Elevation
541 metres (1,775 feet)
Open location code
7HJ87PV8+5V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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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