Hamad Town

Madinat Hamad or Hamad Town is a primarily commuter city within northern . It was a municipality of in the central part of the country. Split from the municipality of Ar Rifa' wa al Mintaqah al Janubiyah in 1991, its territory is now in the .
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  • Type: Town with 133,000 residents
  • Description: town in Northern Governorate, Bahrain
  • Also known as: Madinat Hamad

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dilmun Burial Mounds.

Cemetery
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The are a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising necropolis areas on the main island of dating back to the Dilmun and the Umm al-Nar culture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karzakan and Hamala.

Village
is a village in . It lies along the western coast of . The seventeenth-century theologian Salih Al-Karzakani hailed from this village.

Village
is a village located in the Kingdom of Bahrain, an island country in the . Batelco, Bahrain's largest telecommunications company, has its headquarters based in .

Hamad Town

Latitude
26.1267° or 26° 7′ 36″ north
Longitude
50.4983° or 50° 29′ 54″ east
Population
133,000
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
BH MTH and BH TOW
Open location code
7HRG4FGX+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 659360718
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
290247
Wiki­data ID
Q2088687
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Hamad Town” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: حمد
  • Arabic: مدينة حمد
  • Arabic: مَدِينَة حَمَد
  • Arabic: مدينه حمد
  • Asturian: Hamad Town
  • Azerbaijani: Həməd (Bəhreyn)
  • Azerbaijani: Həməd
  • Basque: Madinat Hamad
  • Bengali: হামাদ শহর
  • Cebuano: Madīnat Ḩamad
  • Chinese: 哈馬德鎮
  • Chinese: 哈马德镇
  • Czech: Madínat Hamad
  • Danish: Madīnat Ḩamad
  • Dutch: Madinat Haamad
  • Dutch: Madinat Hamad
  • Dutch: Madīnat Hamad
  • Dutch: Madīnat H̨amad
  • Egyptian Arabic: مدينة حمد
  • French: Hamad Town
  • German: Hamad
  • Greek: Μαντίνατ Χαμάντ
  • Hebrew: חמד
  • Italian: Madinat Hamad
  • Japanese: ハマド・タウン
  • Korean: 하마드타운
  • Lithuanian: Madinat Hamadas
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Hamad by
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Hamad by
  • Norwegian: Hamad by
  • Persian: مدینه حمد
  • Persian: مدینهٔ حمد
  • Polish: Madinat Hamad
  • Portuguese: Cidade de Hamade
  • Portuguese: Madinat Hamad
  • Romanian: Madinat Hamad
  • Russian: Хамад (Бахрейн)
  • Russian: Хамад
  • Spanish: Madinat Hamad
  • Swedish: Madīnat Ḩamad
  • Tagalog: Madinat Hamad
  • Turkish: Hamad Town
  • Urdu: مدینہ حمد

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