Nejd
The Nejd, or Najd, is the central highland region of Saudi Arabia. Dominated by Riyadh, this is the ancestral home of the ruling al-Saud dynasty, and one of the most conservative parts of the Kingdom.
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- Type: province
- Description: central region of Arabia
- Also known as: “Altopiano del Najd”, “Nadj”, “Nadžda”, “Najd”, “Nedj”, “Nedjd”, “Nedjed”, “Nedschd”, “Nedžas”, “Nedzjed”, “Neged”, “Nejed”, “Nežda”, “Sultanát Nadžd”, “صحرای نجد”, “منطقة نجد”, “هضبة نجد”, “नेज्द”, “네지드”, “ナジェド”, “ナジド”, “ナジュド王国”, “ネジド”, and “内志王国”
- Category: historical region
- Location: Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
23° north
Longitude of center
45.5° or 45° 30′ east
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Nejd” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Nexhdi”
- Arabic: “نجد”
- Armenian: “Նաջդ”
- Asturian: “Néyed”
- Azerbaijani: “Nəcd”
- Bashkir: “Нәджд”
- Bashkir: “Нәжд”
- Basque: “Najd”
- Belarusian: “Нэджд”
- Bengali: “নজদ”
- Bengali: “নাজদ”
- Bosnian: “Nedžd”
- Bulgarian: “Наджд”
- Catalan: “Najd”
- Central Kurdish: “نەجد”
- Chinese: “內志”
- Chinese: “内志”
- Chinese: “内贾德”
- Croatian: “Nadžd”
- Croatian: “Nedžd”
- Czech: “Nadžd”
- Danish: “Najd”
- Dimli (individual language): “Necıd”
- Dutch: “Nadjd”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نجد”
- Esperanto: “Naĝdo”
- Estonian: “Najd”
- Finnish: “Najd”
- French: “Nejd”
- Galician: “Najd”
- Georgian: “ნეჯდი”
- German: “Nadschd”
- Greek: “Νατζντ”
- Hebrew: “נג’ד”
- Hindi: “नज्द”
- Hungarian: “Nedzsd”
- Indonesian: “Najd”
- Italian: “Najd”
- Japanese: “ナジュド”
- Kannada: “ನೆಜ್ದ್”
- Kazakh: “Недж”
- Kazakh: “Нежд”
- Korean: “나지드”
- Latin: “Nadium”
- Latvian: “Nedžda”
- Lithuanian: “Nedždas”
- Malay: “Nejd”
- Malayalam: “നജ്ദ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Najd”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Najd”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nedsjd”
- Norwegian: “Najd”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Najd”
- Ossetian: “Неджд”
- Persian: “نجد”
- Polish: “Nadżd”
- Portuguese: “Négede”
- Portuguese: “Néjede”
- Russian: “Неджд”
- Serbian: “Наџд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nadžd”
- Sindhi: “نجد”
- Slovenian: “Nadžd”
- South Azerbaijani: “نجد”
- Spanish: “Nechd”
- Spanish: “Néyed”
- Sundanese: “Najd”
- Swahili: “Najd”
- Swedish: “Najd”
- Tagalog: “Najd”
- Tajik: “Наҷд”
- Talysh: “Nəcd”
- Talysh: “Nəčd”
- Tamil: “நஜது”
- Thai: “นัจญ์ด”
- Turkish: “Necid”
- Ukrainian: “Неджд”
- Urdu: “نجد”
- Uzbek: “Najd”
- Venetian: “Najd”
- Vietnamese: “Najd”
- Welsh: “Najd”
- Western Frisian: “Nêzjd”
- Western Panjabi: “نجد”
- Wu Chinese: “内志”
- Yue Chinese: “內志”
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