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.
Photo: Eagleamn, Public domain.- 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) and King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra).
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 3, 1938.
King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra)
Arts center
The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, also known as Ithra, is a cultural centre situated in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It was built by Saudi Aramco and inaugurated by King Salman bin Abdulaziz on December 1, 2016.
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″ north
Longitude
50.1202° or 50° 7′ 13″ east
Population
121,000
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
IATA airport code
DHA
United Nations Location Code
SA DHA
Open location code
7HRG74WC+M3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Hindi: “दहरान”
- 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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