Dammam

Dammam () is an industrial port city and the seat of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Located on the coast of the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 1,386,166 as of 2022, making it the country's fifth-largest city after Riyadh, Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina. Dammam forms the core of the Dammam metropolitan area, also known as Greater Dammam, which includes the neighboring governorates of Khobar and Qatif. , the metropolitan area's population was 2,743,318, making it the third-largest in the country.

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Dammam is an industrial port city on Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf coast and the administrative center of the Eastern Province, with a population of about 1.4 million people. It serves as the core of the third-largest metropolitan area in the country, which includes neighboring cities and has a combined population of nearly 2.7 million.

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Vinony's link graph records 1,309 inbound references to Dammam, and connects out to Arabic, humidity and Saudi Arabia.

The entry is geolocated on the map in 4, across 3 mapped points.

It is catalogued under topics including 1923 establishments in Asia, Cities in Saudi Arabia and Commons link from Wikidata.

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Dammam
Settlement.native_name: الدمام
Settlement.native_name_lang: ar
Settlement.settlement_type: Capital city
Settlement.image_skyline: وسط الدمام.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Dammam downtown
Settlement.map_caption: Location in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Settlement.pushpin_map: Saudi Arabia#Asia
Settlement.pushpin_relief: yes
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Dammam within Saudi Arabia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Eastern Province
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Eastern Arabia
Settlement.subdivision_name4: Dammam
Settlement.established_title: First settled
Settlement.founder: The Dawasir tribe

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Wikidata facts

Official name: الدمام
Demonym: معنى الدمام " أطبق” أو محاطًا بمعلومات قوية
Population: 548542
Area: 800
Elevation: 10
Official website: www.e-amana.gov.sa
Image: Dammam medical complex 2014-01-19 22-43.jpg
Dialing code: 013

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Commons category: Dammam
Commons gallery: الدمام
native label: الدمام
P12749: Oswald von Wolkenstein
postal code: 32400–32499
inception: 1922-00-00

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==Overview== The area that eventually became Dammam was settled by the Dawasir tribe around 1923, with permission of King Ibn Saud. The area was originally a fishing hamlet. It developed after the discovery of oil in the region, becoming a port city and an administrative center. Following the unification of Saudi Arabia, Dammam was made the capital of the newly formed Eastern Province.

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