Dhaid
Dhaid, or Al Dhaid, is the capital of the Central Region of the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. An oasis town, it has extensive irrigated date palm plantations with water channelled from the nearby Hajar mountains, at least in part through ancient tunnels dug for that purpose, known as aflāj in Arabic.- Town with 20,200 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 114 metres (374 feet)
- Description: human settlement in United Arab Emirates
- Also known as“Adh Dhayd”“Adh Dhēd”“Al Daid”“Al Dhaid”“Al-Dhayd”“Ḑayd”“Duhayd”“Ihaid”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Falaj Al Mualla.
Falaj Al Mualla
Town
Falaj Al Mualla is the inland oasis town… Falaj Al Mualla is situated 8 km north of Dhaid.
Dhaid
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Latitude
25.28069° or 25° 16′ 51″ north
Longitude
55.8781° or 55° 52′ 41″ east
Open location code
7HQQ7VJH+76
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Dhaid” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الذيد”
- Arabic: “مدينة الذيد”
- Catalan: “Dhaid”
- Catalan: “Dhayd”
- Cebuano: “Adh Dhayd”
- Central Kurdish: “زەید”
- Chinese: “達伊德”
- Dutch: “Dhaid”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الذيد”
- French: “Al Dhaid”
- Hindi: “दैद”
- Italian: “Dhaid”
- Italian: “الذيد”
- Malayalam: “ദൈദ്”
- Mazanderani: “ذید”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dhaid”
- Persian: “ذید”
- Polish: “Az-Zajd”
- Polish: “Daid”
- Polish: “Dhaid”
- Polish: “Dhajd”
- Polish: “Zajd”
- Russian: “Ад-Дайд”
- Russian: “Аль-Дайд”
- Russian: “Дайд”
- Russian: “Эд-Дайд”
- Spanish: “Adh Dhaid”
- Spanish: “Al Dhaid”
- Swedish: “adh-Dhayd”
- Swedish: “Adh-Dhayd”
- Swedish: “al-Dhayd”
- Turkish: “Zeyd, Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri”
- Turkish: “Zeyd”
- Urdu: “ذید”
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