Hejaz
The Hejaz covers the central Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia. Home to both commercial hub Jeddah and the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, this is where the famous railway from Damascus led in its brief heyday, and while politically somewhat eclipsed by Riyadh, Jeddah in particular remains the most cosmopolitan city in the country.
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Hejaz
- Type: region
- Description: geographic region in western Arabia
- Also known as: “Al Hijaz”, “Al Ḩijaz”, “Al Ḩijāz”, “Al-Hidjaz”, “Al-Hidżaz”, “Al-Higāz”, “Al-Ḩijaz”, “Al-Ḥijāz”, “Chidžazas”, “Hedjas”, “Hedschaz”, “Hedžaz”, “Hedžáz”, “Hedżaz”, “Hedzjaz”, “Hegiazum”, “Hejjaz”, “Hejjaz-fjellene”, “Hidschaz”, “Hidschāz”, “Hidžas”, “Hídžaz”, “Hídžáz”, “Higaz”, “Hiĝazo”, “Higiaz”, “Hijas”, “Hijàz”, “Ḥijāz”, “Hijaz-fjellene”, “Hijjaz”, “Vilajet Hidžaz”, “Хејаз”, “Хеџас”, “Хиджаз, Хиджәз”, “חיג’אז”, “חיג’ז”, “منطقة الحجاز”, “हेजाज़”, “히자즈”, “ヒジャーズ地方”, “ヒジャズ”, “ヘジャズ”, and “希贾兹”
- Category: historical region
- Location: Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
23.5036° or 23° 30′ 13″ north
Longitude of center
40.8597° or 40° 51′ 35″ east
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Hejaz” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Hijaz”
- Albanian: “Hixhazi”
- Arabic: “الحجاز”
- Armenian: “Հիջազ”
- Asturian: “Hiyaz”
- Azerbaijani: “Hicaz”
- Bashkir: “Хижәз”
- Basque: “Al-Hijaz”
- Belarusian: “Гіджаз”
- Belarusian: “Хіджаз”
- Bengali: “হেজাজ”
- Bosnian: “Hidžaz”
- Bulgarian: “Хиджаз”
- Catalan: “Hijaz”
- Cebuano: “Hedzaz”
- Central Kurdish: “حیجاز”
- Chechen: “Хьижаз”
- Chinese: “汉志”
- Chinese: “漢志”
- Croatian: “Hedžas”
- Czech: “Hidžáz”
- Danish: “Hejaz”
- Danish: “Hijaz”
- Dhivehi: “ޙިޖާޒު”
- Dutch: “Hidjaz”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الحجاز”
- Esperanto: “Heĝazo”
- Estonian: “Al-Ḩijāz”
- Finnish: “Hijaz”
- French: “Hedjaz”
- Ga: “Hejaz”
- Georgian: “ჰიჯაზი”
- German: “Hedschas”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hejaz”
- Greek: “Χετζάζ”
- Greek: “Χετζάζη”
- Hausa: “Hijaz”
- Hebrew: “חג’אז”
- Hindi: “हिजाज़”
- Hungarian: “Hidzsáz”
- Icelandic: “Hejaz”
- Indonesian: “Hijaz”
- Italian: “Hegiaz”
- Japanese: “ヒジャーズ”
- Kashmiri: “حِجاز”
- Kazakh: “Xïdjaz”
- Kazakh: “Хиджаз”
- Kazakh: “حىيدجاز”
- Korean: “헤자즈”
- Kurdish: “Hîcaz”
- Latin: “Hidiazum”
- Latvian: “Hidžāzs”
- Lithuanian: “Hidžazas”
- Macedonian: “Хиџаз”
- Malagasy: “Hejaz”
- Malay: “Hijaz”
- Malay: “حجاز”
- Malayalam: “ഹിജാസ്”
- Manx: “Hejaz”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hejaz”
- Mongolian: “Хижаз”
- N'Ko: “ߤߌߖߊߖ߭”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hijaz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hijaz”
- Norwegian: “Hedsjas”
- Ossetian: “Хиджаз”
- Panjabi: “ਹਿਜਾਜ਼”
- Persian: “حجاز”
- Polish: “Hidżaz”
- Portuguese: “Hejaz”
- Pushto: “حجاز”
- Romanian: “Hidjaz”
- Russian: “Хиджаз”
- Saraiki: “حجاز”
- Scots: “Hejaz”
- Serbian: “Hidžaz”
- Serbian: “Хиџаз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hidžaz”
- Sindhi: “حجاز”
- Slovenian: “Hedžas”
- Slovenian: “Hidžaz”
- Somali: “Xijaas”
- South Azerbaijani: “حجاز”
- Spanish: “Hiyaz”
- Sundanese: “Hijaz”
- Swedish: “Hijaz”
- Tagalog: “Hejaz”
- Tajik: “Hejāz”
- Tajik: “Ҳиҷоз”
- Talysh: “Hicaz”
- Talysh: “Hičaz”
- Tamil: “ஹெஜாஸ்”
- Tatar: “Хиҗаз”
- Telugu: “హిజాజ్”
- Thai: “ฮิญาซ”
- Turkish: “Hicaz”
- Twi: “Hejaz”
- Ukrainian: “Хіджаз”
- Urdu: “حجاز”
- Uzbek: “Hijoz”
- Venetian: “Heziaz”
- Vietnamese: “Hejaz”
- Volapük: “Häcavän”
- Welsh: “Hijaz”
- Western Armenian: “Հիժազ”
- Western Frisian: “Hidjas”
- Western Panjabi: “حجاز”
- Wu Chinese: “汉志”
- Yue Chinese: “漢志”
- “Ḥiǧāz”
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