Qatif
Qatif is a city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. It is an ancient city, more than 3,000 years old. It was the first home for ancient Phoenicians, some of whom emigrated to the Eastern Mediterranean.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 87,300 residents
- Description: governorate in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Al Qatif”, “Al Qaţīf”, “Al-Qaṭīf”, “El Katif”, “Qatif governorate”, “Аль-Катиф”, “Аль-Катіф”, “Эль-Катиф қаласы”, “القطیف”, “قطيف”, “अल-क़तीफ़”, “कतीफ”, “क़तीफ”, and “क़तीफ़”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Awamiyah and Al-Jaroudiya.
Al-Awamiyah
Town
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Public domain.Al-Jaroudiya
Town
Al-Jaroudiya is a town in the Qatif Governorate, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
Umm Al Hamam
Town
Umm al-Hammam is a town in the Qatif Governorate, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Umm Al Hamam is situated 4 km south of Qatif.
Qatif
- Categories: governorate of Saudi Arabia and locality
- Location: Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.5586° or 26° 33′ 31″ north
Longitude
50.0087° or 50° 0′ 32″ east
Population
87,300
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
UN/LOCODE
SA QTF
Open location code
7HRGH255+CF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Qatif” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القطيف”
- Arabic: “محافظة القطيف”
- Armenian: “Էլ-Կատիֆ”
- Basque: “Al-Qatif”
- Bengali: “কাতিফ”
- Catalan: “Qatif”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای قەتیف”
- Chinese: “卡提夫”
- Chinese: “盖提夫”
- Chinese: “蓋提夫”
- Croatian: “Katif”
- Dutch: “Cateus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القطيف”
- Esperanto: “Katif”
- Finnish: “Al-Qatif”
- French: “Qatif”
- Georgian: “ელ-ქატიფი”
- German: “al-Qatif”
- German: “Al-Qatif”
- German: “Katif”
- Greek: “Κατίφ”
- Hausa: “Qatif”
- Hebrew: “קטיף”
- Hindi: “अल क़तीफ़”
- Indonesian: “Qatif”
- Japanese: “カティーフ”
- Japanese: “カティフ”
- Kazakh: “Élʹ-Katïf”
- Kazakh: “Әл-Қатиф”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Катиф”
- Kazakh: “ەل-كاتىيف”
- Korean: “카티프”
- Kurdish: “Qetîf”
- Malay: “Qatif”
- Malayalam: “ഖതീഫ്”
- Mazanderani: “قطیف”
- Mingrelian: “ელ-ქატიფი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qatif”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qatif”
- Norwegian: “Qatif”
- Persian: “قطیف”
- Polish: “Al-Katif”
- Portuguese: “Catife”
- Russian: “Эль-Катиф”
- Scots: “Qatif”
- Serbian: “Катиф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Katif”
- Sindhi: “القطيف گورنریٽ”
- Slovenian: “Katif”
- South Azerbaijani: “قطیف”
- Spanish: “Qatif”
- Tagalog: “Qatif”
- Turkish: “Katif”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Катіф”
- Ukrainian: “Катіф”
- Urdu: “قطیف”
- Uzbek: “Al - Qatif”
- Vietnamese: “Qatif”
- Waray (Philippines): “Qatif”
- Western Panjabi: “قطیف”
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