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Nejd

The Nejd, or Najd, is the central highland region of . Dominated by , 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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is the capital of , slightly east of the center of the country in the heart of the Tuwaig escarpment.

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is a city in the Nejd region of . It is the capital of Qassim province, and the names are often used interchangeably on timetables and signage.

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is a town and governorate in . Located on the northwestern outskirts of the Saudi capital, , was the original home of the House of Saud, and served as the capital of the Emirate of under the first Saudi dynasty from 1727 to 1818.

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Unaizah or officially The Governorate of Unaizah is a Saudi Arabian city in the . It lies south of the province capital Buraydah and north of , the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

is a city and governorate in the south of Nejd. It is described as a gateway to the .

Nejd

Latitude of center
23° north
Longitude of center
45.5° or 45° 30′ east
Wiki­data ID
Q208154
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Nejd” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nexhdi”
  • Arabic: “منطقة نجد”
  • Arabic: “نجد”
  • Arabic: “هضبة 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”
  • Catalan: “Nechd”
  • Catalan: “Nedj”
  • Catalan: “Nedjd”
  • Catalan: “Nejd”
  • Central Kurdish: “نەجد”
  • Chinese: “內志”
  • Chinese: “内志”
  • Chinese: “内志王国”
  • Chinese: “内贾德”
  • Croatian: “Nadžd”
  • Croatian: “Nedžd”
  • Czech: “Nadžd”
  • Czech: “Sultanát Nadžd”
  • Danish: “Najd”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Necıd”
  • Dutch: “Nadjd”
  • Dutch: “Nedjd”
  • Dutch: “Nedjed”
  • Dutch: “Nedzjed”
  • Dutch: “Nejd”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نجد”
  • Esperanto: “Naĝdo”
  • Estonian: “Najd”
  • Estonian: “Nedžd”
  • Finnish: “Najd”
  • Finnish: “Nejd”
  • French: “Nadj”
  • French: “Nadjd”
  • French: “Najd”
  • French: “Nedj”
  • French: “Nedjd”
  • French: “Nedjed”
  • French: “Nejd”
  • French: “Nejed”
  • Galician: “Najd”
  • Georgian: “ნეჯდი”
  • German: “Nadjd”
  • German: “Nadschd”
  • German: “Najd”
  • German: “Nedschd”
  • German: “Nejd”
  • Greek: “Νατζντ”
  • Hebrew: “נג’ד”
  • Hindi: “नज्द”
  • Hindi: “नेज्द”
  • Hungarian: “Nedzsd”
  • Indonesian: “Najd”
  • Indonesian: “Nejd”
  • Italian: “Altopiano del Najd”
  • Italian: “Najd”
  • Italian: “Neged”
  • Italian: “Nejd”
  • Japanese: “ナジェド”
  • Japanese: “ナジド”
  • Japanese: “ナジュド”
  • Japanese: “ナジュド王国”
  • Japanese: “ネジド”
  • Kannada: “ನೆಜ್ದ್”
  • Kazakh: “Недж”
  • Kazakh: “Нежд”
  • Korean: “나지드”
  • Korean: “네지드”
  • Latin: “Nadium”
  • Latvian: “Nadžda”
  • Latvian: “Nedžda”
  • Latvian: “Nežda”
  • Lithuanian: “Nedžas”
  • Lithuanian: “Nedždas”
  • Malay: “Nejd”
  • Malayalam: “നജ്ദ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Najd”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Najd”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nedsjd”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nejd”
  • Norwegian: “Najd”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Najd”
  • Ossetian: “Неджд”
  • Persian: “صحرای نجد”
  • Persian: “نجد”
  • Polish: “Nadżd”
  • Portuguese: “Najd”
  • Portuguese: “Négede”
  • Portuguese: “Nejd”
  • Portuguese: “Néjede”
  • Russian: “Неджд”
  • Serbian: “Наџд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nadžd”
  • Sindhi: “نجد”
  • Slovenian: “Nadžd”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نجد”
  • Spanish: “Najd”
  • Spanish: “Nechd”
  • Spanish: “Nedj”
  • Spanish: “Nejd”
  • Spanish: “Néyed”
  • Sundanese: “Najd”
  • Swahili: “Najd”
  • Swedish: “Nadjd”
  • Swedish: “Najd”
  • Swedish: “Nejd”
  • Tagalog: “Najd”
  • Tajik: “Наҷд”
  • Talysh: “Nəcd”
  • Talysh: “Nəčd”
  • Tamil: “நஜது”
  • Turkish: “Necid”
  • Ukrainian: “Неджд”
  • Urdu: “نجد”
  • Uzbek: “Najd”
  • Venetian: “Najd”
  • Vietnamese: “Najd”
  • Welsh: “Najd”
  • Welsh: “Nejd”
  • Western Frisian: “Nêzjd”
  • Western Panjabi: “نجد”
  • Wu Chinese: “内志”
  • Yue Chinese: “內志”

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