Khobar
Al Khobar is a city and governorate in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, situated on the coast of the Persian Gulf. With a population of 409,549 in the city core and 658,550 in the governorate, as of 2022, Khobar forms part of the Dammam metropolitan area along with Dammam and Dhahran, making up the residential core of Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf region.
Photo: Ahmadtt3t, Public domain.
- Type: City with 220,000 residents
- Description: City in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Al Khobar”, “Al Khubar”, “Alkhobar”, “AlKhobar”, “Chobar”, “Chubar”, “El Chobar”, “Khubar”, “Ал-Хобар”, “Ал-Хубар”, “Аль-Хубар”, “Эль – Хубар қаласы”, “الباحۃ”, “خِبر”, “مدينة الخبر”, and “アルコバール”
Places of Interest
Highlights: King Fahad Hospital of University and Security Forces Medical City Eastern Province.
Security Forces Medical City Eastern Province
Hospital
Saad Specialist Hospital, often abbreviated as SSH, is a private hospital in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
AlHugayet Tower
Al Hugayet Tower is a tower in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Thuqbah.
Khobar
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.304° or 26° 18′ 14″ north
Longitude
50.196° or 50° 11′ 46″ east
Population
220,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Khobar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الخبر”
- Belarusian: “Хубар”
- Bengali: “খোবার”
- Bulgarian: “Хобар”
- Catalan: “Al-Khobar”
- Catalan: “al-Khubar”
- Catalan: “Al-Khubar”
- Cebuano: “Khobar”
- Chechen: “Хобар”
- Chinese: “寇巴尔”
- Chinese: “胡拜尔”
- Chinese: “胡拜爾”
- Croatian: “Hubar”
- Croatian: “Khobar”
- Czech: “Al-Chubar”
- Czech: “Al-Khubar”
- Danish: “Al Khobar”
- Dutch: “Khobar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الخبر”
- Esperanto: “Ĥubar”
- Finnish: “Al-Khobar”
- French: “Khobar”
- Georgian: “ელ-ხუბარი”
- German: “al-Chubar”
- German: “Al-Chubar”
- German: “Khobar”
- Greek: “Χούμπαρ”
- Gujarati: “ખોબાર”
- Hebrew: “ח’ובאר”
- Hindi: “अल खोबर”
- Hindi: “अल-खोबर”
- Indonesian: “Khobar”
- Irish: “Al Khobar”
- Italian: “Khobar”
- Japanese: “アル・コバール”
- Kalaallisut: “Khobar”
- Kannada: “ಖೋಬರ್”
- Kazakh: “Élʹ-Xwbar”
- Kazakh: “Әл-Хубар”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Хубар”
- Kazakh: “ەل-حۋبار”
- Korean: “코바르”
- Kurdish: “Xuber”
- Latvian: “Kobara”
- Lithuanian: “Kobaras”
- Malay: “Khobar”
- Malayalam: “ഖോബാർ”
- Marathi: “अल-खोबर”
- Marathi: “खोबार”
- Mazanderani: “الخبر”
- Mingrelian: “ელ-ხუბარი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Khobar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Khobar”
- Norwegian: “Khobar”
- Persian: “خبر”
- Polish: “Al-Chubar”
- Portuguese: “Cobar”
- Portuguese: “Khobar”
- Russian: “Эль-Хубар”
- Sindhi: “الخبر”
- Sinhala: “කොබාර්”
- Slovenian: “Hubar”
- Somali: “Khobar”
- Spanish: “Al Kobhar”
- Spanish: “Khobar”
- Swedish: “al-Khubar”
- Swedish: “Al-Khubar”
- Tagalog: “Khobar”
- Tajik: “Хубар”
- Tamil: “காபர்”
- Telugu: “ఖొబర్”
- Thai: “โคห์บาร์”
- Turkish: “El Huber”
- Turkish: “El-Huber”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Хубар”
- Urdu: “الخبر”
- Uzbek: “Al-Xubar”
- Venetian: “Khobar”
- Vietnamese: “Khobar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Khobar”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Al Hizam Al Akhdar and Al Aqrabiyah.
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