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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rifa Fort and Bahrain National Stadium.
Rifa Fort
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Riffa Fort also known as, Shaikh Salman bin Ahmed Fateh Fort or Qal'at ar-Riffa, is a fort in Riffa, Bahrain. The fort is situated on a cliff overlooked the desert valley between East Riffa and West Riffa.
Bahrain National Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Chanad, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bahrain National Stadium is the national stadium of Bahrain, located in Riffa. It can accommodate 24,000 spectators and is used mostly for football matches.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sanad.
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.
Riffa
- Type: City with 122,000 residents
- Description: human settlement from Bahrain
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Southern Governorate, Bahrain, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
26.1315° or 26° 7′ 54″ northLongitude
50.5503° or 50° 33′ 1″ eastPopulation
122,000Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)United Nations Location Code
BH RIFOpen location code
7HRG4HJ2+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2189166838OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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‘”
- 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: “ריפה”
- Hebrew: “רפאע”
- Hindi: “रीफा”
- Indonesian: “Riffa”
- Irish: “Riffa”
- Italian: “Riffa”
- Japanese: “リファー”
- Kalaallisut: “Riffa”
- Kannada: “ರಿಫಾ”
- 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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