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Jazan Region

Jizan

Jazan also spelled Jizan is a port city and the capital of Jizan Province in the southwest of . Jazan City is situated on the coast of the Red Sea.
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  • Type: City with 128,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as: “Djayzān”, “Djāzān”, “Gazan”, “Gizan”, “Gizán”, “Jaizan”, “Jazan”, “Jazan, Gizan,Gazan”, “Jezan”, and “Qizan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include AL-dosariyeh Castle and Jizan Regional Airport.

Castle
Photo: MrJoker07, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Aerodrome
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Airport, also known as Jizan international Airport, is an serving Jizan, the capital city of the Jizan Province in . It is named after King Abdullah.

Jizan

Latitude
16.8947° or 16° 53′ 41″ north
Longitude
42.558° or 42° 33′ 29″ east
Population
128,000
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
IATA airport codes
GIZ and JAZ
United Nations Location Code
SA GIZ
Open location code
7H84VHV5+V5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288992209
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
105299
Wiki­data ID
Q27660
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Jizan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Jāzān”
  • Arabic: “Jīzān”
  • Arabic: “Qīzān”
  • Arabic: “جازان”
  • Arabic: “جيزان”
  • Arabic: “مدينة جازان”
  • Asturian: “Jizan”
  • Belarusian: “Джызан”
  • Bengali: “জাজন”
  • Catalan: “Djayzan”
  • Catalan: “Djazan”
  • Catalan: “Jizan”
  • Cebuano: “Jizan”
  • Central Kurdish: “جیزان”
  • Chinese: “吉贊”
  • Chinese: “吉赞”
  • Czech: “Džizán”
  • Danish: “Jizan”
  • Dutch: “Jizan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جازان”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝajzano”
  • Esperanto: “Jizan”
  • Estonian: “Jizan”
  • Estonian: “Jīzān”
  • Finnish: “Jizan”
  • French: “Jizan”
  • German: “Dschaisan”
  • German: “Dschaizan”
  • German: “Dschāzān”
  • German: “Dschisan”
  • Greek: “Τζιζάν”
  • Greek: “Τζίζαν”
  • Gujarati: “જિઝાન”
  • Hebrew: “ג’יזאן”
  • Hindi: “जिज़ान”
  • Hungarian: “Dzsízán”
  • Indonesian: “Jizan”
  • Irish: “Jizan”
  • Italian: “Jizan”
  • Japanese: “ジーザーン”
  • Japanese: “ジザン”
  • Japanese: “ジャザン”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಜಾನ್”
  • Korean: “지잔”
  • Kurdish: “Cêzan”
  • Latvian: “Džizana”
  • Latvian: “Džizāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Džizanas”
  • Malay: “Jizan”
  • Malayalam: “ജിസാൻ”
  • Marathi: “जीझन”
  • Mazanderani: “جیزان”
  • Mingrelian: “ჯიზანი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jizan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jizan”
  • Norwegian: “Jizan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jizan”
  • Persian: “جیزان”
  • Polish: “Dżizan”
  • Portuguese: “Jizã”
  • Portuguese: “Jizan”
  • Russian: “Джизан”
  • Serbian: “Џизан”
  • Sinhala: “ජිසාන්”
  • Slovenian: “Džazan”
  • Spanish: “Jizan”
  • Spanish: “Jizán”
  • Sundanese: “Jizan”
  • Swedish: “Jizan”
  • Tagalog: “Jizan”
  • Tamil: “ஜிசன்”
  • Telugu: “జిజాన్”
  • Thai: “จีซาน”
  • Turkish: “Cizan”
  • Ukrainian: “Джизан”
  • Urdu: “جازان”
  • Venetian: “Jizan”
  • Vietnamese: “Jizan”
  • Volapük: “Cisan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jizan”
  • Western Panjabi: “جاذان”

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