Al Hawiyah
Al Hawiyah is a town in Makkah Province, located 15 kilometres from Ta'if. It was a small suburb in the past. Currently it has expanded to include more than 15 residential neighborhoods, with an area of 80 square kilometres and is inhabited with many different classes of Saudi society.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 148,000 residents
- Description: village in Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Al Ḩawīyah”, “Al Huwaya”, “Al Midhya‘”, and “Al Midhyā’”
Places of Interest
Highlights include King Fahad Air Base.
King Fahad Air Base
Aerodrome
King Fahd Air Base is a Royal Saudi Air Force military base located in Taif, Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia. King Fahad Air Base is situated 3½ km northeast of Al Hawiyah.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include As Sayl as Saghir.
As Sayl as Saghir
Village
Al-Sayl Al-Saghir is a village in Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia. As Sayl as Saghir is situated 7 km north of Al Hawiyah.
Al Hawiyah
- Categories: village, big city, and locality
- Location: Mecca Region, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.44487° or 21° 26′ 42″ northLongitude
40.50295° or 40° 30′ 11″ eastPopulation
148,000Elevation
1,516 metres (4,974 feet)Open location code
7HH2CGV3+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 295933353OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
109626Wikidata ID
Q4120519
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Al Hawiyah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحوية”
- Arabic: “الحويّة”
- Arabic: “الحويه”
- Arabic: “حويه”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الحويه”
- French: “Al Hawiyah”
- French: “Al-Hawiyya”
- German: “Al Hawiyah”
- Greek: “Αλ Χαουΐγια”
- Irish: “Al Hawiyah”
- Mazanderani: “الحویه”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Hawiyah”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Hawiyah”
- Norwegian: “Al-Hawiyah”
- Persian: “الحویه، الطائف”
- Persian: “الحویه”
- Polish: “Al-Hawijja”
- Russian: “Эль-Хавия”
- Urdu: “الحویہ”
- Uzbek: “Al-Haviya”
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