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.
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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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.
==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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