Sakakah

Sakākā, often spelled Sakakah is a city in northwestern which is the capital of Al-Jawf Province. It is located at 650 metres above sea level just to the north of the An Nafud desert. Sakakah had a population of 204,174 at the 2022 census.
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  • City with about 150,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 570 metres (1,860 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code AJF
  • Description: capital city of Al Jawf Province in northwestern Saudi Arabia, one of the oldest inhabited oasis sites in the Arabian Peninsula
  • Also known as
    “Sakākā”
    “Sakaka, Saudi Arabia”
    “Skâka”
    “سكاكا”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zabal Castle.
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is a castle in the north of the city…

Sakakah

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Latitude
29.9784° or 29° 58′ 42″ north
Longitude
40.2048° or 40° 12′ 17″ east
Open location code
7HX2X6H3+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1236740006
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
102527
Wiki­data ID
Q27469

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Sakakah” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Sakaka”
  • Albanian: “Sakakah”
  • Amharic: “ሳካካህ”
  • Arabic: “سكاكا”
  • Arabic: “سكاكة”
  • Arabic: “مقر إمارة سكاكا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sakaka”
  • Belarusian: “Сакака”
  • Bengali: “সাকাকাহ”
  • Catalan: “Djawf Amir”
  • 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”
  • German: “Sakakah”
  • Hausa: “Sakakah”
  • Hebrew: “סכאכא”
  • Hindi: “सकक्का”
  • Hindi: “सकाकाह”
  • Indonesian: “Sakaka”
  • Indonesian: “Sakakah”
  • Irish: “Sakakah”
  • Italian: “Sakaka”
  • Italian: “Skaka”
  • Japanese: “アル・ジャウフ”
  • Japanese: “サカーカ”
  • Japanese: “サカーカー”
  • Javanese: “Sakakah”
  • Kannada: “ಸಕಾಕಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Сакака қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Сакака”
  • Kirghiz: “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”
  • Oromo: “Sakakah”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਕਾਕਾ”
  • Persian: “سکاکه”
  • Polish: “Sakaka”
  • Polish: “Sakakah”
  • Portuguese: “Sacaca”
  • Portuguese: “Sakakah”
  • Pushto: “سکاکه”
  • Russian: “Сакака”
  • Sindhi: “سڪاڪا، سعودي عرب”
  • Somali: “Sakakah”
  • Spanish: “Sakaka”
  • Spanish: “Sakakah”
  • Swahili: “Sakakah”
  • Swedish: “Sakaka”
  • Tagalog: “Sakakah”
  • Tajik: “Сакака”
  • Tatar: “Сакака”
  • Thai: “ซะกากา”
  • Turkish: “Sakakah”
  • Turkish: “Sekaka”
  • Turkish: “Sekake”
  • Ukrainian: “Сакака”
  • Urdu: “الباحۃ”
  • Urdu: “سکاکا”
  • Urdu: “سکاکہ”
  • Uzbek: “Sakaka”
  • Vietnamese: “Sakakah”
  • Volapük: “Säkaka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Al Jawf, Saudi Arabia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Skaka”

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