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[TH=“colspan: 2, align: center”]Medina
المدينة المنورة
Al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah
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[TH=“colspan: 2, align: center”]The Radiant City[/TH]
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Madinah_Montage.jpg/250px-Madinah_Montage.jpg Clockwise from top left: al-Masjid an-Nabawi, Green Dome, al-Baqi’ Cemetery, Quba Mosque, and Hejaz Railway Museum
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Medina
Location in Saudi Arabia
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Coordinates:
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24°28′N 39°36′ECoordinates:
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24°28′N 39°36′E
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[TH]Country[/TH]
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[TH]Region[/TH]
Al Madinah
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[TH=“colspan: 2, align: center”]Government[/TH]
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[TH] • Mayor[/TH]
Khalid Taher
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[TH] • Regional Governor[/TH]
Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
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[TH=“colspan: 2, align: center”]Area[/TH]
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[TH] • City[/TH]
589 km[SUP]2[/SUP] (227 sq mi)
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[TH] • Urban[/TH]
293 km[SUP]2[/SUP] (113 sq mi)
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[TH]Elevation[/TH]
608 m (1,995 ft)
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[TH=“colspan: 2, align: center”]Population (2010)[SUP][1]](Medina - Wikipedia)[/SUP][/TH]
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[TH] • City[/TH]
1,180,770
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[TH] • Density[/TH]
2,000/km[SUP]2[/SUP] (5,200/sq mi)
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[TH] • Urban[/TH]
918,489
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[TH]Time zone[/TH]
Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3)
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[TH]Website[/TH]
www.amana-md.gov.sa
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Medina (/məˈdiːnə/; Arabic: المدينة المنورة, al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, “the radiant city”; or المدينة, al-Madīnah, “the city”), also transliterated as Madīnah, is a city in the Hejaz, and the capital of the Al Madinah Region of Saudi Arabia. The city contains al-Masjid an-Nabawi (“the Prophet’s Mosque”), which is the burial place of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and is the second-holiest city in Islam after Mecca.
Medina was Muhammad’s destination after his Hijrah from Mecca, and became the capital of a rapidly increasing Muslim Empire, first under Muhammad’s leadership, and then under the first three Rashidun caliphs Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman. It served as the power base of Islam in its first century where the early Muslim community developed. Medina is home to the three oldest mosques, namely the Quba Mosque, al-Masjid an-Nabawi,[SUP][2]](Medina - Wikipedia)[/SUP] and Masjid al-Qiblatayn (“the mosque of the two qiblas”). Muslims believe that the chronologically final surahs of the Quran were revealed to the Prophet in Medina, and are called Medinan surahs in contrast to the earlier Meccan surahs.[SUP][3]](Medina - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP][4]](Medina - Wikipedia)[/SUP]