Sakakah
Sakākā, often spelled Sakakah is a city in northwestern Saudi Arabia which is the capital of Al-Jawf Province. It is located just to the north of the An Nafud desert. Sakakah had a population of 204,174 at the 2022 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 150,000 residents
- Description: city in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Sakaka”, “Sakākah”, and “Skâka”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zabal Castle.
Zabal Castle
Castle
Photo: Heritage Commission, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zabal Castle is a castle in the north of the city of Sakaka in the Al-Jouf region in the north of Saudi Arabia.
Sakakah
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Al Jouf, North, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.9784° or 29° 58′ 42″ northLongitude
40.2048° or 40° 12′ 17″ eastPopulation
150,000Elevation
555 metres (1,821 feet)IATA airport code
AJFOpen location code
7HX2X6H3+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 1236740006OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Sakakah from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Sakakah” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sakaka”
- Albanian: “Sakakah”
- Arabic: “سكاكا”
- Arabic: “سكاكة”
- Arabic: “مقر إمارة سكاكا”
- Belarusian: “Сакака”
- Catalan: “Djawf Amir”
- Catalan: “Sakaka”
- Catalan: “Sakāka”
- Catalan: “Sakakah”
- Cebuano: “Sakākā”
- Chinese: “塞卡凱”
- Czech: “Sakáka”
- Dutch: “Al Jawf”
- Dutch: “Sakakah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سكاكا”
- Esperanto: “Sakaka”
- Finnish: “Sakaka”
- French: “Sakaka”
- French: “Sakakah”
- Galician: “Al Jawf - الجوف”
- Galician: “Al Jawf”
- Galician: “Al-Xauf”
- German: “Sakaka”
- Hebrew: “סאקאקה”
- Hebrew: “סכאכא”
- Hindi: “सकक्का”
- Indonesian: “Sakaka”
- Irish: “Sakakah”
- Italian: “Sakaka”
- Italian: “Skaka”
- Japanese: “アル・ジャウフ”
- Japanese: “サカーカ”
- Japanese: “サカーカー”
- Kazakh: “Сакака қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Сакака”
- Korean: “사카카”
- Kurdish: “Sekaka”
- Lithuanian: “Sakaka”
- Malay: “Sakakah”
- Malayalam: “സകാക”
- Mazanderani: “سکاکه”
- Mingrelian: “საკაკა”
- Moksha: “Сакака”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakakah”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sakakah”
- Norwegian: “Sakakah”
- Panjabi: “ਸਕਾਕਾ”
- Persian: “سکاکه”
- Polish: “Sakaka”
- Polish: “Sakakah”
- Portuguese: “Sacaca”
- Portuguese: “Sakakah”
- Russian: “Сакака”
- Spanish: “Sakaka”
- Swedish: “Sakaka”
- Tagalog: “Sakakah”
- Thai: “ซะกากา”
- Turkish: “Sekaka”
- Turkish: “Sekake”
- Ukrainian: “Сакака”
- Urdu: “الباحۃ”
- Urdu: “سکاکا”
- Vietnamese: “Sakakah”
- Volapük: “Säkaka”
- Waray (Philippines): “Al Jawf, Saudi Arabia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Skaka”
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