Afif
Afif is a city in central Saudi Arabia, in the Najd region. It is situated approximately halfway between Riyadh and Mecca. The modern town was established in the 1910s as a hijra, or "settlement", for the nomadic tribes of the area, particularly the tribe of 'Utaybah.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 45,500 residents
- Description: governorate in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Afif governorate” and “ʻAfīf”
Afif
- Categories: governorate of Saudi Arabia and locality
- Location: Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
23.90237° or 23° 54′ 9″ northLongitude
42.91509° or 42° 54′ 54″ eastPopulation
45,500Elevation
1,045 metres (3,428 feet)Open location code
7HM4WW28+W2OpenStreetMap ID
node 351346248OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
110250Wikidata ID
Q27139
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Afif” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “‘Afīf”
- Arabic: “عفيف”
- Arabic: “محافظة عفيف”
- Arabic: “محافظه عفيف”
- Cebuano: “‘Afīf”
- Chinese: “阿菲夫”
- Dutch: “Afif”
- French: “Afif”
- German: “Afif”
- Greek: “Αφίφ”
- Kurdish: “Efîf”
- Malayalam: “അഫീഫ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Afif”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afif”
- Norwegian: “Afif”
- Persian: “عفیف”
- Polish: “Afif”
- Russian: “Афиф”
- Scots: “Afif”
- Spanish: “Afif”
- Swedish: “Afif”
- Tagalog: “Afif”
- Turkish: “Afif”
- Urdu: “الباحۃ”
- Urdu: “عفیف”
- Western Panjabi: “عفیف”
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