Jizan Region

Jizan (Arabic جيزان, Ǧaizān DMG ) is a province in Saudi Arabia. It is located in the extreme southwest of the country and shares land borders with Yemen. Covering an area of ​​11,671 km ² live in Jizan 1.35979 million people (as of 2010 ). Thus, the second smallest by Baha is also by far the most densely populated province.

The capital of the province, Jizan, has about 130,000 inhabitants and is located directly on the Red Sea. The old town was situated on a salt taper to the 1970s. The unstable ground and forced a partial relocation of the city from the area of ​​Sabcha to the east.

Along the 300 km of coastline on the Red Sea are also over 100 islands, which also belong to the province. The largest group of islands are the Farasan Islands.

Geographically, can be divided into the following regions Jizan Province:

  • The as- Sarawat mountains inland.
  • The Alhazoun region consists mainly of forest and pasture land.
  • The rest of the province is predominantly used for the cultivation of coffee beans and fruit cultivation eg bananas through irrigation.
  • In the Tihama field crops of millet and vegetables can only succeed if the rainfall in the mountains allow sufficient conduction in the plane.

Except for the mountainous regions, the climate in Jizan with great heat and little rainfall is marked. Temperatures are almost year round about 30 ° C and in July reached peak values ​​of about 40 ° C. The humidity tends continuously to 100 % during the year. In the course of a year it rarely rains more than 75 mm ( cf. Berlin: 581 mm).

Asir | al -Baha | Jizan | al - Jawf | Ha'il | al - Hudud ash- schamaliyya | Medina | Mecca | Najran | al -Qasim | ar -Riyad | Ash- Sharqiyah | Tabuk

  • Province in Saudi Arabia
  • Jizan Province
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