Dhahran
Dhahran is a city located in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. With a total population of 143,936 as of 2022, it is a major administrative center for the Saudi oil industry.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 121,000 residents
- Description: city in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Az̧ Z̧ahrān”, “Dahahron”, and “Dhahram”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dammam 7 (Propsperity Well).
Dammam 7 (Propsperity Well)
Monument
Dammam No. 7, also known as "Prosperity Well", is an oil well located in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, notable for being the site where commercial quantities of oil were first discovered in the country on March 4, 1938.
Dhahran
- Categories: big city, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.2967° or 26° 17′ 48″ northLongitude
50.1202° or 50° 7′ 13″ eastPopulation
121,000Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)IATA airport code
DHAUnited Nations Location Code
SA DHAOpen location code
7HRG74WC+M3OpenStreetMap ID
node 447805356OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
107797Wikidata ID
Q268915
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Satellite Map
Discover Dhahran from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Dhahran” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Dhahran”
- Arabic: “الظهران (مدينة)”
- Arabic: “الظهران (مدينه)”
- Arabic: “الظهران”
- Arabic: “ظهران”
- Arabic: “مدينة الظهران”
- Armenian: “Զահրան”
- Basque: “Dahran”
- Basque: “Dhahran”
- Belarusian: “Дахран”
- Bengali: “দাহরান”
- Bulgarian: “Дахран”
- Catalan: “Dhahran”
- Cebuano: “Dhahran”
- Chechen: “ЗахӀран”
- Chinese: “宰赫兰”
- Chinese: “扎哈蘭”
- Chinese: “達蘭”
- Croatian: “Dahran”
- Czech: “Dahrán”
- Danish: “Dhahran”
- Dutch: “Dhahraan”
- Dutch: “Dhahran”
- Dutch: “Dharaan”
- Dutch: “Dharan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الظهران”
- Esperanto: “Dahran”
- Finnish: “Dhahran”
- French: “Az Zahran”
- French: “Dhahran”
- Georgian: “დაჰრანი”
- German: “Dhahran”
- Greek: “Νταχράν”
- Hebrew: “דהראן”
- Hindi: “डाहरान”
- Hungarian: “Dhahran”
- Indonesian: “Dhahran”
- Irish: “Dhahran”
- Italian: “Dhahran”
- Japanese: “ダーラン”
- Korean: “다란”
- Kurdish: “Zehran”
- Lithuanian: “Dahranas”
- Luxembourgish: “Dhahran”
- Malay: “Dhahran”
- Malayalam: “ദഹ്റാൻ”
- Mazanderani: “ظهران”
- Mingrelian: “დაჰრანი”
- Nepali: “दहरान”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dhahran”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dhahran”
- Norwegian: “Dhahran”
- Persian: “ظهران”
- Polish: “Az-Zahran”
- Polish: “Dhahran”
- Portuguese: “Darã”
- Portuguese: “Dhahran”
- Russian: “Дахран”
- Scots: “Dhahran”
- Slovak: “Dahrán”
- Spanish: “Dhahran”
- Sundanese: “Zhahran”
- Swedish: “al-Zahran”
- Swedish: “az-Zahran”
- Swedish: “Dhahran”
- Swedish: “Zahran”
- Tagalog: “Dhahran”
- Turkish: “Zahran”
- Ukrainian: “Дахран”
- Urdu: “ظہران”
- Uzbek: “Dahron”
- Venetian: “Dhahran”
- Vietnamese: “Dhahran”
- Yue Chinese: “扎哈蘭”
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