Diriyah
Diriyah is a town and governorate in Saudi Arabia. Located on the northwestern outskirts of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, Diriyah was the original home of the House of Saud, and served as the capital of the Emirate of Diriyah under the first Saudi dynasty from 1727 to 1818.
- Type: Town with 43,300 residents
- Description: city in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Ad Dir’iyah”, “Ad Dir`iyah”, “Ad-Dir’iyah”, “Ad-Diriyah”, “AdDiriyah”, “Al-Dir‘iyya”, “Al-Dir`iyya”, “Al-Dirija”, “AlDiriyah”, “Dara’iyah”, “Dara’īyah”, “Daraeia”, “Dariyya”, “Deraya”, “Dereyeh”, “Dhahara”, “Dhariyah”, “Dharīyah”, “Ад-Дирийя”, “Әд-Дирия”, “Дирғия”, “مدينة الدرعية”, “منطقة الدرعية”, “德尔伊叶”, and “德拉伊耶”
Places of Interest
Highlights: At-Turaif District in ad-Dir’iyah.
At-Turaif District in ad-Dir’iyah
Diriyah
- Categories: city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Riyadh Region, Nejd, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
24.7483° or 24° 44′ 54″ north
Longitude
46.5718° or 46° 34′ 18″ east
Population
43,300
Elevation
600 metres (1,969 feet)
Open location code
7HP8PHXC+8P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Diriyah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الدرعية”
- Asturian: “Diriyah”
- Azerbaijani: “Diriyyə”
- Bashkir: “Әд-Дәрғиә”
- Basque: “Diriyah”
- Belarusian: “Эд-Дыр’іа”
- Belarusian: “Эд-Дырыя”
- Catalan: “Diriyah”
- Cebuano: “Ad Dir‘īyah”
- Chinese: “迪里耶”
- Croatian: “Diraja”
- Czech: “Dirijá”
- Czech: “Diriyah”
- Danish: “Diriyah”
- Dutch: “Al-Diriyah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الدرعيه”
- Esperanto: “Dirija”
- Finnish: “Dariyah”
- Finnish: “Dirijja”
- French: “Dariya”
- Galician: “Diriyah”
- Georgian: “დირაია”
- German: “Ad Dir`iyah”
- German: “Diriyya”
- German: “Dirʿiyya”
- Hebrew: “א-דרעיה”
- Hungarian: “ed-Diríja”
- Indonesian: “Diriyah”
- Irish: “Diriyah”
- Italian: “Dirʿiyya”
- Japanese: “ディルイーヤ”
- Kazakh: “Әд-Дирғия”
- Lithuanian: “Dirija”
- Macedonian: “Дираџа”
- Malayalam: “ദിരിയ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Darayeh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Diriyah”
- Norwegian: “Darayeh”
- Persian: “درعیه”
- Polish: “Ad-Dirijja”
- Portuguese: “Al-Diriyah”
- Portuguese: “Daria”
- Romanian: “Diriyah”
- Russian: “Эд-Диръия”
- Serbian: “Дираџа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Diraja”
- Sindhi: “درعيہ”
- Sindhi: “رياست درعيہ”
- Slovenian: “Dirija”
- Spanish: “Diriyah”
- Swedish: “Diriyah”
- Tagalog: “Diriyah”
- Talysh: “Dirijjə”
- Turkish: “Diriye”
- Ukrainian: “Ед-Дірійя”
- Urdu: “درعیہ”
- Uzbek: “Ad - Diriya”
- Vietnamese: “Dir’iyah”
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