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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Ahmed, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 87,300 residents
- Description: governorate in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Al Qaţīf”, “Al-Qatif”, “El Katif”, and “Qatif governorate”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Awamiyah and Umm Al Hamam.
Al-Awamiyah
Town
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Public domain.
Al-Awamia, also spelled Al-Awamiyah, is a town in the Qatif Governorate, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Al-Awamiyah is situated 4 km northwest of Qatif.
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.
Al-Awjam
Town
Al-Awjam is a town in the Qatif Governorate, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Al-Awjam is situated 6 km west 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″ northLongitude
50.0087° or 50° 0′ 32″ eastPopulation
87,300Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)United Nations Location Code
SA QTFOpen location code
7HRGH255+CFOpenStreetMap ID
node 1237806905OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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: “Al-Katif”
- Catalan: “Al-Qatif”
- Catalan: “Katif”
- Catalan: “Qatif”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای قەتیف”
- Chinese: “卡提夫”
- Chinese: “盖提夫”
- Chinese: “蓋提夫”
- Croatian: “Al-Qaṭīf”
- Croatian: “Katif”
- Croatian: “Qatif”
- Dutch: “Cateus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القطيف”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قطيف”
- Esperanto: “Katif”
- Finnish: “Al Qatif”
- Finnish: “Al-Qatif”
- Finnish: “Qatif”
- French: “Al-Qatif”
- French: “Qatif”
- Georgian: “ელ-ქატიფი”
- German: “al-Qatif”
- German: “Al-Qatif”
- German: “Katif”
- Greek: “Κατίφ”
- Hausa: “Qatif”
- Hebrew: “קטיף”
- Hindi: “अल क़तीफ़”
- Hindi: “अल-क़तीफ़”
- Hindi: “कतीफ”
- Hindi: “क़तीफ”
- Hindi: “क़तीफ़”
- Indonesian: “Qatif”
- Japanese: “Qatif”
- Japanese: “カティーフ”
- Japanese: “カティフ”
- Kazakh: “Élʹ-Katïf”
- Kazakh: “Әл-Қатиф”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Катиф қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Катиф”
- Kazakh: “ەل-كاتىيف”
- Korean: “카티프”
- Kurdish: “Qetîf”
- Malay: “Qatif”
- Malayalam: “ഖതീഫ്”
- Mazanderani: “قطیف”
- Mingrelian: “ელ-ქატიფი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Qatif”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qatif”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qatif”
- Norwegian: “Qatif”
- Persian: “القطیف”
- Persian: “قطیف”
- Polish: “Al-Katif”
- Portuguese: “Catife”
- Russian: “Аль-Катиф”
- Russian: “Эль-Катиф”
- Scots: “Qatif”
- Serbian: “Катиф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Katif”
- Slovenian: “Katif”
- South Azerbaijani: “قطیف”
- Spanish: “Al-Qatif”
- Spanish: “Qatif”
- Tagalog: “Qatif”
- Turkish: “Katif”
- Ukrainian: “Аль-Катіф”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Катіф”
- Ukrainian: “Катіф”
- Urdu: “قطیف”
- Uzbek: “Al - Qatif”
- Vietnamese: “Qatif”
- Waray (Philippines): “Qatif”
- Western Panjabi: “قطیف”
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