Medina
Medina, officially known as Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, is a city in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia. Commonly referred to as the "cradle of Islamic culture and civilisation", it is Islam's second holiest city.Photo: Bluemangoa2z, Public domain.
Photo: Medineli, Public domain.
Photo: Adeeljaved, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Prophet's Mosque
Photo: Bluemangoa2z, Public domain.
The Prophet's Mosque is the second mosque built by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Medina, after…
Maqbara Al Baqeea
Photo: Mardetanha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jannat al-Baqi is the oldest and first Islamic cemetery of Medina in the Hejazi region of present-day Saudi Arabia.
Masjid Ghamama
Photo: Imam Khairul Annas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mosque of Al-Ghamamah is one of the oldest mosques in Medina, Saudi Arabia, located in the place believed to be where the Islamic prophet Muhammad performed an Eid prayer in the year 631.
Medina
- Type: City with 1,100,000 residents
- Description: city in Medina Province, Saudi Arabia
- Categories: big city, million city, holy city of Islam and locality
- Location: Medina Region, Hejaz, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
24.4712° or 24° 28' 16" northLongitude
39.6111° or 39° 36' 40" eastPopulation
1,100,000Elevation
603 metres (1,978 feet)IATA airport code
MEDUnited Nations Location Code
SA MEDOpen Location Code
7GPXFJC6+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 4571693347OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
109223Wikidata ID
Q35484Medina Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Madinah
- Adyghe: Мэдинэт
- Afar: Madina
- Afrikaans: Medina
- Albanian: Medina
- Albanian: Medinë
- Amharic: መዲና
- Arabic: Medina
- Arabic: المدينة
- Arabic: المدينة المنورة
- Arabic: المدينه المنوره
- Arabic: طيبة
- Arabic: مدينة الرسول
- Arabic: مدينة رسول الله
- Arabic: يثرب
- Armenian: Մադինա
- Armenian: Մատինա
- Assamese: মদিনা
- Asturian: Medina
- Avaric: Мадина
- Azerbaijani: Mədinə
- Bashkir: Мәҙинә
- Basque: Medina
- Belarusian: Медзіна
- Belarusian: Медына
- Belarusian: Мэдына
- Bengali: মদিনা
- Bengali: মদীনা
- Bishnupriya: মেডিনা
- Bosnian: Medina
- Breton: Medina
- Breton: Yathrib
- Bulgarian: Медина
- Bulgarian: Ятриб
- Catalan: Lathrippa
- Catalan: Madīnat al Munawwarah
- Catalan: Medina
- Catalan: Yathrib
- Cebuano: Medina
- Central Bikol: Medina
- Central Kurdish: مەدینە
- Chechen: Мадинат
- Chinese: Madīna
- Chinese: 叶斯里卜
- Chinese: 雅特里布
- Chinese: 馬迪納
- Chinese: 麥地那
- Chinese: 麦地那
- Chinese: 默德那
- Chuvash: Медина
- Croatian: Medina
- Czech: Jathrib
- Czech: Medina
- Czech: Medína
- Dagbani: Madina
- Danish: Medina
- Danish: Yathrib
- Dhivehi: މަދީނާ
- Dimli (individual language): Medina
- Dutch: Jathrib
- Dutch: Jatrib
- Dutch: Medina (Saoedi-Arabie)
- Dutch: Medina
- Dutch: Medinisch
- Dutch: Yathrib
- Egyptian Arabic: المدينة المنورة
- Egyptian Arabic: المدينة المنوره
- English: Al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah
- English: Madinah
- English: Madīnah
- English: The Radiant City
- English: Yathrib
- Esperanto: Jatrib
- Esperanto: Medino
- Estonian: Jasrib
- Estonian: Jathrib
- Estonian: Mediina
- Finnish: Jathrib
- Finnish: Medina
- Finnish: Yathrib
- French: Medine
- French: Médine
- French: Yathrib
- French: Yatreb
- French: Yatrib
- Galician: Medina
- Galician: المدينة المنورة
- Georgian: მედინა
- German: Jathrib
- German: Medina
- German: Medinenser
- German: Medyna
- German: Yathrib
- Greek: Μεδίνα
- Gujarati: મદીના
- Hausa: Madinah
- Hebrew: אל-מדינה
- Hebrew: אלמדינה
- Hebrew: אל מדינה
- Hebrew: ית'רב
- Hebrew: יתרב
- Hebrew: יתריב
- Hebrew: מדינה
- Hindi: अल-मदीनाह अल-मुनव्वराह
- Hindi: मदिना
- Hindi: मदीना
- Hungarian: Jatrib
- Hungarian: Medina
- Icelandic: Medina
- Icelandic: Medína
- Ido: Medina
- Iloko: Medina
- Indonesian: Dinar emas Islam
- Indonesian: Madinah
- Indonesian: Madinah Al-Munawwarah
- Indonesian: Medina
- Indonesian: Medinah
- Indonesian: Yatsrib
- Ingush: Маддане
- Irish: Medina
- Italian: Medina
- Italian: Yathrib
- Italian: Yatrib
- Japanese: マディーナ
- Japanese: メディナ
- Japanese: ヤスリブ
- Javanese: Madinah
- Kabyle: Lmadina
- Kalaallisut: Medina
- Kannada: ಮದೀನಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Madina
- Kashmiri: مدیٖنہ مُنَورا
- Kazakh: Медине
- Khmer: មេឌីណា
- Kirghiz: Мадина
- Kirghiz: Медина
- Korean: 메디나
- Kurdish: Medine
- Kurdish: Medîne
- Kurdish: Medînê
- Lak: Мадина
- Lao: Medina
- Latin: Medina
- Latvian: Jatriba
- Latvian: Latripa
- Latvian: Medina
- Latvian: Medīna
- Lezghian: Медина
- Literary Chinese: 麥地那
- Lithuanian: Medina
- Luxembourgish: Medina
- Macedonian: Медина
- Madurese: Maḍina
- Malagasy: Medina (Arabia Saodita)
- Malagasy: Medina
- Malay: Madinah
- Malay: Madinah al-Munawwarah
- Malay: Yathrib
- Malayalam: Madeena
- Malayalam: Medina
- Malayalam: മദീന
- Maltese: Medina
- Marathi: मदिना
- Marathi: मदीना
- Mazanderani: مدينه
- Mazanderani: مدینه
- Min Nan Chinese: Madīna
- Minangkabau: Madinah
- Moksha: Мэдина
- N'Ko: ߡߊ߬ߘߌ߬ߣߊ߫
- Nepali: मदिना
- Northern Frisian: Medina
- Norwegian: Medina
- Norwegian Bokmål: Medina
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Medina
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Yathrib
- Occitan (post 1500): Medina
- Ossetian: Мединæ
- Panjabi: ਮਦੀਨਾ
- Papiamento: Medina
- Persian: مدینه
- Persian: مدینه منوره
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Mediina
- Polish: Al-Madina
- Polish: Al-Madinah
- Polish: Al Madinah
- Polish: Jasrib
- Polish: Jatrib
- Polish: Medyna
- Portuguese: Iatreb
- Portuguese: Medina
- Portuguese: Yathrib
- Portuguese: Yatreb
- Portuguese: Yatrib
- Quechua: Madina
- Romanian: Medina
- Russian: Мадина ан-Набави
- Russian: Медина
- Russian: Ясриб
- Russian: Ятриб
- Rusyn: Медина
- Santali: ᱢᱚᱫᱤᱱᱟ
- Saraiki: مدینہ
- Scots: Madinah
- Scots: Medina
- Serbian: Јатриб
- Serbian: Медина
- Serbian: المدينة المنورة
- Serbo-Croatian: Lmadina
- Serbo-Croatian: Medina
- Sicilian: Medina
- Sicilian: Midina
- Silesian: Medyna
- Sindhi: مدينو
- Sinhala: මෙදිනා
- Slovak: Medina
- Slovak: Medína
- Slovenian: Medina
- Somali: Madiina Al-munawara
- Somali: Medina
- South Azerbaijani: مدینه
- Spanish: Madinah
- Spanish: Medina
- Spanish: Yathrib
- Spanish: Yatrib
- Sundanese: Madinah
- Sundanese: Medina
- Swahili: Madina
- Swahili: Medina
- Swahili: Yathrib
- Swedish: Madinah
- Swedish: Medina
- Swedish: Yathrib
- Swiss German: Medina
- Tachelhit: Lmadina
- Tagalog: Medina
- Tajik: Мадина
- Talysh: Mədinə
- Tamil: மதினா
- Tamil: மதீனா
- Tamil: மதீனாத்துல் முனவ்வறா
- Tamil: மெதினா
- Tamil: யத்ரிப்
- Tatar: Mädinä
- Tatar: Мәдинә
- Telugu: మదీనా
- Thai: มะดีนะฮฺ
- Thai: มะดีนะฮ์
- Thai: อัล มะดีนะหฺ
- Thai: อัลมะดีนะฮ์
- Thai: เมดินะ
- Thai: เมดินา
- Thai: เมดีนา
- Tosk Albanian: Medina
- Turkish: Medina
- Turkish: Medine
- Turkish: Medîne
- Turkish: Yasrib
- Turkish: Yesrib
- Turkish: Yesrip
- Turkmen: Medine
- Uighur: Medine
- Uighur: مەدىنە
- Ukrainian: Медина
- Ukrainian: Медіна
- Ukrainian: Ясриб
- Ukrainian: Ясріб
- Urdu: الباحۃ
- Urdu: مدینہ
- Urdu: مدینہ المنورہ
- Urdu: مدینہ طیبہ
- Urdu: مدینہ منورہ
- Urdu: مدینۂ طیبہ
- Urdu: مدینۃ الرسول
- Urdu: مدینۃ المنورۃ
- Uzbek: Madina
- Venetian: Medina
- Veps: Medin
- Vietnamese: Medina
- Volapük: Mädinä
- Waray (Philippines): Medina
- Welsh: Medina
- Western Armenian: Մատինա
- Western Frisian: Medina
- Western Panjabi: مدینھ
- Western Panjabi: مدینہ
- Western Panjabi: مدینہ منورہ
- Western Panjabi: مدینۃ النبی
- Wu Chinese: 麦地那
- Yue Chinese: 麥地那
- Al Madina
- Al Madinah al Munawwarah
- Al Madīnah
- Al Madīnah al Munawwarah
- Al Medina
- El Medina
Other Places Named Medina
In the Area
- Bani KhidrahSuburb
- Al-ManakhahSuburb
- Al-NaqaSuburb
- Al MasaniSuburb
- Bani Abdul AshhalSuburb
- As SihSuburb
Popular Destinations in Hejaz
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Medina. Photo: Medineli, Public domain.