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Dammam (Arabic: الدَّمَّام ad-Dammām) is the capital of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.Situated on the coast of the Arabian Gulf.With a population of 1,386,166 as of 2022, Dammam is the kingdom's fifth-most populous city after Riyadh, Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina.
Locator map of Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Created by NormanEinstein, April 20, 2007. {{GFDL-self}} Category:Locator maps of cities in Saudi Arabia: File usage.
Map showing the major cities in Saudi Arabia. City Population [1] Comments Abha: ... Dammam: 1,386,166 (2022) Capital of Eastern Province: Dhahran: 143,936 (2022) Dhurma:
The Dammam metropolitan area, or Greater Dammam, is the largest metropolitan area in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. It consists of "The Triplet Cities" of Dammam, Khobar, Dhahran, Qatif and their vicinities. It had a population of 2,742,800 as of the 2022 census. [1]
The airport is located 31 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of downtown Dammam and is named after the former King of Saudi Arabia, Fahd ibn Abdulaziz (1921–2005). The airport serves the entire Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and is one of the four primary international airports in the kingdom.
King Abdul Aziz Port, also known as Dammam Port, is a port in the city of Dammam, Saudi Arabia. It is the largest port in the Arabian Gulf , and the third largest and third busiest port in the Middle East and North Africa ( MENA ) region, after the Jeddah Islamic Port .
After the unification of Saudi Arabia, the kingdom was divided into four provinces: the 'Asir Province, Al Hasa' Province, the Hejaz Province and the Najd Province. [1]King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud issued Royal Order A/92 on March 2, 1992, known as Law of the Provinces, [4] which provided for the division of the kingdom into 13 provinces.
Of these, 3,140,362 were Saudi citizens and 1,759,963 were foreign nationals. [3] The province accounts for 15.05% of the entire population of Saudi Arabia [2] and is named for its geographical location relative to the rest of the kingdom. More than a third of the population is concentrated in the Dammam metropolitan area.