Najran is a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia and the capital of Najran Province, with a population of 381,431 in 2022 that makes it one of the fastest growing urban centers in the kingdom. It sits at an elevation of 1,293 meters in a fertile oasis that historically served as a major trading hub along caravan routes linking Yemen, the Hejaz and Mesopotamia. Najran was an important center of pre-Islamic Arabian Christianity and is remembered for the massacre of its Christian community in 523 CE by the Jewish king Dhu Nuwas. Today the population is predominantly Ismaili Shia Muslim with a Sunni minority, and the surrounding region became part of Saudi Arabia after the 1934 Saudi-Yemeni war, a claim contested by Yemen until 1994.
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Founding Year Climate Zone Sources
1. Najran (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 72,038 (2010)
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 17.25, 44.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 17.25, 44.25
17.25 44.25 BWh
3. GeoNames: Najrān - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 103630, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 103630, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
17.49326 44.12766 P PPLA SA 16 505652 1310 Asia/Riyadh
Najran (Wikipedia)
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Najran (Arabic: نجران Najrān; IPA: [nad͡ʒ.raːn]), is a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia lead / Wikidata P17, confirms city and country
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