Makkah, Saudi Arabia

GPTKB entity

Statements (73)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:city
gptkbp:airport gptkb:King_Abdulaziz_International_Airport_(Jeddah)
gptkbp:annualEvent Hajj pilgrimage
Umrah pilgrimage
gptkbp:areaCode +966 12
gptkbp:climate hot desert climate
gptkbp:coordinates 21.3891° N, 39.8579° E
gptkbp:country gptkb:Saudi_Arabia
gptkbp:demonym Meccan
gptkbp:distanceFromJerusalem about 70 km
gptkbp:elevation 277 m
gptkbp:foundedYear unknown, ancient
gptkbp:governedBy gptkb:Makkah_Region_Municipality
gptkbp:governor gptkb:Khalid_bin_Faisal_Al_Saud
gptkbp:historicalEvent birthplace of Prophet Muhammad
site of the conquest of Mecca (630 CE)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Makkah, Saudi Arabia
gptkbp:notableLandmark gptkb:Jabal_Thawr
gptkb:Jabal_al-Nour
Abraj Al Bait
gptkbp:notableSite gptkb:Kaaba
Masjid al-Haram
gptkbp:officialLanguage gptkb:Arabic
gptkbp:population over 1.5 million
gptkbp:postalCode 24231–24372
gptkbp:prohibits non-Muslims (entry restricted)
gptkbp:region gptkb:Makkah_Province
gptkbp:religiousSignificance holiest city in Islam
gptkbp:sisterCity gptkb:Abu_Dhabi
gptkb:Algiers
gptkb:Amman
gptkb:Baghdad
gptkb:Baku
gptkb:Bamako
gptkb:Beirut
gptkb:Cairo
gptkb:Conakry
gptkb:Dakar
gptkb:Damascus
gptkb:Djibouti
gptkb:Doha
gptkb:Istanbul
gptkb:Jakarta
gptkb:Kuala_Lumpur
gptkb:Kuwait_City
gptkb:Manama
gptkb:Medina
gptkb:Muscat
gptkb:Nouakchott
gptkb:Rabat
gptkb:Sana'a
gptkb:Sarajevo
gptkb:Tashkent
gptkb:Tehran
gptkb:Tunis
gptkb:Dhaka
gptkb:Kampala
gptkb:Karachi
gptkb:Khartoum
gptkb:N'Djamena
gptkb:Niamey
gptkb:Ouagadougou
gptkb:Tripoli
gptkb:Dushanbe
Abuja
Islamabad
Mogadishu
gptkbp:timezone Arabian Standard Time (UTC+3)
gptkbp:UNESCO_tentative_list gptkb:Historic_Jeddah,_the_Gate_to_Makkah
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Makkah_(814)
gptkb:KH._Maemun_Zubair
gptkb:Makkah_Technology_Valley
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7