Riffa
Riffa is the second-largest city in the Kingdom of Bahrain in terms of area. The city is divided into three parts: East Riffa, West Riffa and North Riffa.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rifa Fort and Bahrain National Stadium.
Rifa Fort
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Bahrain National Stadium
Stadium
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sanad and Nuwaidrat.
Sanad
Village
Sanad is a town in Bahrain. The town neighbors Isa Town, Riffa and Jurdab. Sanad is mainly a residential area. There is a mangrove forest on the sea shores of Sanad and the area which is environmentally protected attracts large flocks of flamingo birds.
Nuwaidrat
Village
Nuwaidrat is a village located in Bahrain, close to Sitra; it was formerly part of the Sitra Municipality.
Riffa
- Type: City with 122,000 residents
- Description: human settlement from Bahrain
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Southern Governorate, Bahrain, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.1315° or 26° 7′ 54″ north
Longitude
50.5503° or 50° 33′ 1″ east
Population
122,000
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BH RIF
Open location code
7HRG4HJ2+J4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Riffa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Riffa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الرفاع الشرقي”
- Arabic: “الرفاع الغربي”
- Arabic: “الرفاع”
- Arabic: “اَلرِّفَاع”
- Arabic: “رفاع شرقي”
- Arabic: “رفاع غربي”
- Arabic: “رفاع”
- Armenian: “Ռիֆֆա”
- Asturian: “Riffa”
- Azerbaijani: “Ər-Rifa”
- Basque: “Ar-Rifa”
- Belarusian: “Рыфа”
- Bengali: “রিফা”
- Catalan: “Riffa”
- Cebuano: “Ar Rifā‘”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕیفاع”
- Chechen: “РиффаӀ”
- Chinese: “里法”
- Czech: “ar-Riffá”
- Czech: “Riffa”
- Danish: “Ar-Rifā‘”
- Danish: “Riffa”
- Dutch: “Al-Riffa”
- Dutch: “Ar Rifa”
- Dutch: “Ar-Rifa’a”
- Dutch: “Ar-Rifaca”
- Dutch: “El-Rifa‘a”
- Dutch: “El-Rifa’a”
- Dutch: “Riffa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الرفاع”
- Esperanto: “Riffa”
- Estonian: “Ar-Rifā‘”
- Finnish: “Al-Riffa”
- French: “Riffa”
- German: “Ar-Riffa”
- German: “Riffa”
- Greek: “Ριφά”
- Gujarati: “રિફા”
- Hebrew: “רפאע”
- Hindi: “रीफा”
- Hungarian: “Riffa”
- Indonesian: “Riffa”
- Irish: “Riffa”
- Italian: “Riffa”
- Japanese: “リファー”
- Kalaallisut: “Riffa”
- Kannada: “ರಿಫಾ”
- Kannada: “ರಿಫ್ಫಾ”
- Karekare: “Riffa”
- Korean: “리파”
- Latvian: “Rifa”
- Lithuanian: “Rifa”
- Malay: “Riffa”
- Marathi: “रिफा”
- Moksha: “Риффа”
- Mongolian: “Риффа”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Riffa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Riffa”
- Norwegian: “Riffa”
- Panjabi: “ਰਿਫ਼ਾ”
- Persian: “الرفاع غربی”
- Persian: “الرفاع”
- Persian: “رفاع”
- Polish: “Al-Riffa”
- Polish: “Ar Rifa`”
- Polish: “Ar-Rifa”
- Polish: “Riffa”
- Portuguese: “Al-Riffa”
- Portuguese: “Ar Rifa‘”
- Portuguese: “Ar Rifa`”
- Portuguese: “Rifa”
- Portuguese: “Riffa”
- Romanian: “Riffa”
- Russian: “Риффа”
- Russian: “Эр-Рифа-эш-Шарки”
- Russian: “Эр-Рифа”
- Scots: “Riffa”
- Sinhala: “රිෆා”
- Slovenian: “Rifa”
- Slovenian: “Riffa”
- Spanish: “Riffa”
- Swedish: “ar-Rifā‘”
- Swedish: “Ar-Rifā‘”
- Tagalog: “Riffa”
- Tamil: “ரிஃபா”
- Telugu: “రిఫ్ఫా”
- Thai: “ริไฟนา”
- Thai: “อัรริฟาอ์”
- Turkish: “Er Rifaa”
- Turkish: “Er-Rifaa”
- Ukrainian: “Ріффа”
- Urdu: “رفاع”
- Uzbek: “Riffa”
- Venetian: “Riffa”
- Vietnamese: “Riffa”
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