Medina (sau)

Medina

Medina ranks 187th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mannheim, Adelaide, and Karlsruhe. Memorable people born in Medina include Husayn ibn Ali, Hasan ibn Ali, and Ja'far al-Sadiq. Memorable people who died in Medina include Muhammad, Umar, and Abu Bakr. Medina has been the birth place of many religious figures, and politicians and the death place of many religious figures, and companions. Medina is located in Saudi Arabia.

Medina, officially al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, also known as Taybah and known in pre-Islamic times as Yathrib (يَثْرِب), is the capital and administrative center of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia. It is one of the oldest and most important places in Islamic history. The second holiest city in Islam, the population as of 2022 is 1,411,599, making it the fourth-most populous city in the country. Around 58.5% of the population are Saudi citizens and 41.5% are foreigners. Located at the core of the Medina Province in the western reaches of the country, the city is distributed over 589 km2 (227 sq mi), of which 293 km2 (113 sq mi) constitutes the city's urban area, while the rest is occupied by the Hejaz Mountains, empty valleys, agricultural spaces and older dormant volcanoes. Read more on Wikipedia