Medina

Medina, officially known as Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, is a city in the region of . Commonly referred to as the "cradle of Islamic culture and civilisation", it is Islam's second holiest city.
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  • Type: City with 1,100,000 residents
  • Description: city in Medina Province, Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as: “Al Madina”, “Al Madīnah”, “Al Madinah al Munawwarah”, “Al Madīnah al Munawwarah”, “Al Medina”, “Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah”, “Al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah”, “El Medina”, “Madīnah”, “The Luminous City”, and “The Radiant City”
Photo: Adeeljaved, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Prophet’s Mosque and Maqbara Al Baqeea.

Mosque
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The Prophet's Mosque is the second mosque built by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Medina, after the Quba Mosque, as well as the second largest mosque and holiest site in Islam, after the in , in the region of the .

Cemetery
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Al-Baqi Cemetery, also known as Jannat al-Baqi or Baqi al-Gharqad, is the oldest and first Islamic cemetery, located southeast of the in Medina in the region of .

Museum
Photo: Imam Khairul Annas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a railway museum in Medina, Saudi Arabia. It opened in 2006 and is located on the grounds of the restored Ottoman railway station in Medina.

Medina

Latitude
24.4712° or 24° 28′ 16″ north
Longitude
39.6111° or 39° 36′ 40″ east
Population
1,100,000
Elevation
603 metres (1,978 feet)
IATA airport code
MED
United Nations Location Code
SA MED
Open location code
7GPXFJC6+FC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4571693347
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
109223
Wiki­data ID
Q35484
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Medina” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Madinah”
  • Adyghe: “Мэдинэт”
  • Afrikaans: “Medina”
  • Albanian: “Medina”
  • Albanian: “Medinë”
  • Amharic: “መዲና”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ιαθριππα”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λαθρεπτα”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λαθριππα”
  • Arabic: “المدينة المنورة”
  • Arabic: “المدينة”
  • Arabic: “المدينه المنوره”
  • Arabic: “طيبة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الرسول”
  • Arabic: “مدينة رسول الله”
  • Arabic: “يثرب”
  • Armenian: “Մադինա”
  • Assamese: “মদিনা”
  • Asturian: “Medina”
  • Avaric: “Мадина”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mədinə”
  • Balinese: “Madinah”
  • Banjar: “Madinah”
  • Bashkir: “Мәҙинә”
  • Basque: “Medina”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Madinah”
  • Belarusian: “Медзіна”
  • Belarusian: “Медына”
  • Belarusian: “Мэдына”
  • Bengali: “আল মাদিনা আল মানোওয়ারা”
  • Bengali: “আলোকিত নগরী”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াসরিব”
  • Bengali: “মদিনা”
  • Bengali: “মদীনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “মেডিনা”
  • Bosnian: “Medina”
  • Breton: “Medina”
  • Bulgarian: “Медина”
  • Bulgarian: “Ятриб”
  • Catalan: “Lathrippa”
  • Catalan: “Madīnat al Munawwarah”
  • Catalan: “Medina”
  • Cebuano: “dakbayan sa Mädinä”
  • Cebuano: “Mädinä”
  • Cebuano: “Medina”
  • Central Bikol: “Medina”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەدینە”
  • Chechen: “Мадийнат”
  • Chechen: “Мадинат”
  • Chinese: “Madīna”
  • Chinese: “叶斯里卜”
  • Chinese: “雅特里布”
  • Chinese: “麥地那”
  • Chinese: “麦地那”
  • Chinese: “默德那”
  • Chuvash: “Медина”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Medine”
  • Croatian: “Medina”
  • Czech: “Jathrib”
  • Czech: “Medína”
  • Dagbani: “Madina”
  • Danish: “Medina”
  • Dhivehi: “މަދީނާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Medina”
  • Dutch: “Jathrib”
  • Dutch: “Jatrib”
  • Dutch: “Medina (Saoedi-Arabie)”
  • Dutch: “Medina”
  • Dutch: “Medinisch”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المدينة المنورة”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المدينة المنوره”
  • Esperanto: “Jatrib”
  • Esperanto: “Medino”
  • Estonian: “Jasrib”
  • Estonian: “Jathrib”
  • Estonian: “Mediina”
  • Finnish: “Jathrib”
  • Finnish: “Medina”
  • French: “Medine”
  • French: “Médine”
  • French: “Yatreb”
  • French: “Yatrib”
  • Ga: “Al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah”
  • Ga: “Madīnah”
  • Ga: “Medina”
  • Ga: “The Luminous City”
  • Ga: “The Radiant City”
  • Galician: “Medina”
  • Georgian: “მედინა”
  • German: “Jathrib”
  • German: “Medina”
  • German: “Medinenser”
  • German: “Medyna”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Madīnah”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Medina”
  • Greek: “Αίθριβος”
  • Greek: “Μεδίνα”
  • Gujarati: “મદીના”
  • Hausa: “Al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah”
  • Hausa: “Madinah”
  • Hausa: “Madīnah”
  • Hebrew: “אל מדינה”
  • Hebrew: “אל-מדינה”
  • Hebrew: “אלמדינה”
  • Hebrew: “ית’רב”
  • Hebrew: “יתרב”
  • Hebrew: “יתריב”
  • Hebrew: “מדינה”
  • Hindi: “अल-मदीनाह अल-मुनव्वराह”
  • Hindi: “मदिना”
  • Hindi: “मदीना”
  • Hungarian: “Jatrib”
  • Hungarian: “Medina”
  • Icelandic: “Medina”
  • Icelandic: “Medína”
  • Ido: “Medina”
  • Iloko: “Medina”
  • Indonesian: “Dinar emas Islam”
  • Indonesian: “Madinah Al-Munawwarah”
  • Indonesian: “Madinah”
  • Indonesian: “Medinah”
  • Indonesian: “Yatsrib”
  • Ingush: “Маддане”
  • Interlingue: “Medina”
  • Irish: “Medina”
  • Italian: “Medina”
  • Italian: “Yatrib”
  • Japanese: “マディーナ”
  • Japanese: “メディナ”
  • Japanese: “ヤスリブ”
  • Javanese: “Madinah”
  • Kabyle: “Lmadina”
  • Kalaallisut: “Medina”
  • Kannada: “ಮದೀನಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Madina”
  • Kashmiri: “مدیٖن”
  • Kashmiri: “مدیٖنہ مُنَورا”
  • Kazakh: “Медине”
  • Khmer: “មេឌីណា”
  • Kirghiz: “Мадина”
  • Kirghiz: “Медина”
  • Komering: “Madinah”
  • Korean: “메디나”
  • Kurdish: “Medine”
  • Kurdish: “Medîne”
  • Kurdish: “Medînê”
  • Lak: “Мадина”
  • Latin: “Medina”
  • Latvian: “Jatriba”
  • Latvian: “Latripa”
  • Latvian: “Medīna”
  • Lezghian: “Медина”
  • Literary Chinese: “麥地那”
  • Lithuanian: “Medina”
  • Luxembourgish: “Medina”
  • Macedonian: “Медина”
  • Madurese: “Maḍina”
  • Malagasy: “Medina (Arabia Saodita)”
  • Malagasy: “Medina”
  • Malay: “Madinah al-Munawwarah”
  • Malayalam: “Madeena”
  • Malayalam: “മദീന”
  • Maltese: “Il-Madina l-Munawwara”
  • Maltese: “Il-Medina l-Imdawwla”
  • Maltese: “Jatrib”
  • Maltese: “L-Imdina l-Imdawwla”
  • Maltese: “L-Imdina l-Imnawwra”
  • Maltese: “Medina”
  • Manx: “Medina”
  • Marathi: “मदिना”
  • Marathi: “मदीना”
  • Mazanderani: “مدينه”
  • Mazanderani: “مدینه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Madīna”
  • Minangkabau: “Madinah”
  • Mingrelian: “მედინა”
  • Moksha: “Мэдина”
  • Mongolian: “Медина”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߊ߬ߘߌ߬ߣߊ߫”
  • Nepali: “मदिना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Medina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Medina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Medina”
  • Norwegian: “Medina”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Medina”
  • Oromo: “Madina”
  • Ossetian: “Мединæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਦੀਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Medina”
  • Persian: “مدینه منوره”
  • Persian: “مدینه”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Mediina”
  • Polish: “Al Madinah”
  • Polish: “Al-Madina”
  • Polish: “Al-Madinah”
  • Polish: “Jasrib”
  • Polish: “Jatrib”
  • Polish: “Medyna”
  • Portuguese: “Iatreb”
  • Portuguese: “Medina”
  • Portuguese: “Yatreb”
  • Portuguese: “Yatrib”
  • Pushto: “مدينه”
  • Pushto: “مدینه”
  • Quechua: “Madina”
  • Romanian: “Medina”
  • Russian: “Мадина ан-Набави”
  • Russian: “Медина”
  • Russian: “Ясриб”
  • Russian: “Ятриб”
  • Rusyn: “Медина”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱚᱫᱤᱱᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “مدینہ”
  • Scots: “Medina”
  • Serbian: “Јатриб”
  • Serbian: “Медина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Medina”
  • Sicilian: “Medina”
  • Sicilian: “Midina”
  • Silesian: “Medyna”
  • Sindhi: “مدينه منوره”
  • Sindhi: “مدينو”
  • Sinhala: “මෙදිනා”
  • Slovak: “Medina”
  • Slovak: “Medína”
  • Slovenian: “Medina”
  • Somali: “Madiina Al-munawara”
  • Somali: “Madina”
  • Somali: “Medina”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مدینه”
  • Spanish: “Medina”
  • Spanish: “Yatrib”
  • Sundanese: “Madinah”
  • Swahili: “Madina”
  • Swedish: “Madina”
  • Swedish: “Medina”
  • Swiss German: “Medina”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠖꠤꠘꠣ”
  • Tachelhit: “Lmadina”
  • Tagalog: “lungsod ng Mëdinë”
  • Tagalog: “Medina”
  • Tagalog: “Mëdinë”
  • Tajik: “Мадина”
  • Talysh: “Mədinə”
  • Tamil: “மதினா”
  • Tamil: “மதீனா”
  • Tamil: “மதீனாத்துல் முனவ்வறா”
  • Tamil: “மெதினா”
  • Tamil: “யத்ரிப்”
  • Tatar: “Mädinä”
  • Tatar: “Мәдинә”
  • Telugu: “మదీనా”
  • Thai: “มะดีนะฮ์”
  • Thai: “มะดีนะฮฺ”
  • Thai: “เมดินะ”
  • Thai: “เมดินา”
  • Thai: “เมดีนา”
  • Thai: “อัล มะดีนะหฺ”
  • Thai: “อัลมะดีนะฮ์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Medina”
  • Turkish: “Medine”
  • Turkish: “Medîne”
  • Turkish: “Yasrib”
  • Turkish: “Yesrib”
  • Turkish: “Yesrip”
  • Turkmen: “Medine”
  • Twi: “Al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah”
  • Twi: “Madīnah”
  • Twi: “Medina”
  • Uighur: “Medine”
  • Uighur: “مەدىنە”
  • Ukrainian: “Медина”
  • Ukrainian: “Медіна”
  • Ukrainian: “Ясриб”
  • Ukrainian: “Ясріб”
  • Urdu: “الباحۃ”
  • Urdu: “مدینہ المنورہ”
  • Urdu: “مدینہ طیبہ”
  • Urdu: “مدینۂ طیبہ”
  • Urdu: “مدینہ منورہ”
  • Urdu: “مدینہ”
  • Urdu: “مدینۃ الرسول”
  • Urdu: “مدینۃ المنورۃ”
  • Uzbek: “Madina”
  • Venetian: “Medina”
  • Veps: “Medin”
  • Vietnamese: “Al Madinah”
  • Vietnamese: “Madinah”
  • Vietnamese: “Medina”
  • Volapük: “Mädinä”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Medina”
  • Welsh: “Medina”
  • Western Armenian: “Մատինա”
  • Western Frisian: “Medina”
  • Western Panjabi: “مدینھ”
  • Western Panjabi: “مدینہ منورہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “مدینہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “مدینۃ النبی”
  • Wu Chinese: “麦地那”
  • Yue Chinese: “麥地那”
  • “Madinah”
  • “Medina”
  • “Yathrib”
  • “المدينة المنورة”

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