Home › Entities › big_city › Medina

Medina

city in Medina Province, Saudi Arabia
Place big_city Q35484
Medina
Bluemangoa2z at Malayalam Wikipedia · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

Medina is a big city[1]. Medina draws 18,379 Wikipedia views per month (big city category, ranking #39 of 300).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Medina Province[3]
  • Country: Saudi Arabia[4], Ottoman Empire[5]
  • Head of government: Salman ibn Sultan[6]
  • Instance of: holy city of Islam[7]
  • Twinned administrative body: Mecca[8]
  • Commons category: Medina[9]
  • Said to be the same as: Yathrib[10]
  • Inception: 900 BC[11]
  • Significant event: Siege of Medina[12]
  • Official website: https://www.amana-md.gov.sa/[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Medina[14]
  • Commons gallery: Medina, Saudi Arabia[15]
  • Population: 1,180,770[16], 1,100,093[17], 384,535[18], 715,558[19], 1,411,599[20]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: بوابة:المدينة المنورة[21]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[22], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[23], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[26], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[27], Islamskiy entsiklopedicheskiy slovar'[28], History of Ming[29], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[30], New International Encyclopedia[31], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[32], Pauly–Wissowa[33]
  • Capital of: Medina Province[34], المدينة المنورة (مقر الإمارة)[35]
  • Official name: المدينة المنورة[36]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Medina[37]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Medina[38]
  • Native label: المدينة المنورة[39]
  • Category for people buried here: Q32385332[40]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Medina[41]
  • Elevation above sea level: 608 m[42]
  • Area: 589 km²[43]
  • History of topic: timeline of Medina[44]

Body

Climate and Environment

Medina's Köppen climate classification is recorded as desert climate[45].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Medina include Constitution of Medina[46], a social contract[47], in Rashidun[48]; Dracunculus medinensis[49], a taxon[50]; Medina County[51], a county of Ohio[52], in United States[53], founded in 1812[54]; and Medinan surah[55].

Why It Matters

Medina has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] Medina is known by 101 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]

Entities named for Medina include Constitution of Medina[46], a social contract[47], in Rashidun[48]; Dracunculus medinensis[49], a taxon[50]; Medina County[51], a county of Ohio[52], in United States[53], founded in 1812[54]; and Medinan surah[55].

Related Entities

Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib Abbas ibn Ali Abbasid Caliphate Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Muttalib Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan Abd al-Muttalib Abdullah ibn Masud Abdur Rahman bin Awf Abu Ayyub al-Ansari Abu Bakr Abu Lu'lu'a Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Aisha Ali al-Hadi Ali al-Rida Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin Al-Mukhtar Al-Walid I Anas ibn Malik Ar-Radi Fatima Hafsa bint Umar ibn Al-Khattab Hasan al-Askari Hasan al-Basri Hasan ibn Ali Hassan ibn Thabit Husayn ibn Ali Ibn Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . stats.gov.sa. Retrieved . stats.gov.sa. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . stats.gov.sa. Retrieved . stats.gov.sa. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . stats.gov.sa. Retrieved . stats.gov.sa. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . stats.gov.sa. Retrieved . stats.gov.sa. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [51] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [55] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [53] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [54] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [56] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [57] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Medina. Retrieved October 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/medina
MLA “Medina.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/medina.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_medina_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Medina}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/medina}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Medina — https://4ort.xyz/entity/medina (retrieved 2026-10-11)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/medina · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · 迴廊彼端 · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 163
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'av', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'b
    Commons gallery → Medina, Saudi Arabia
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Commons gallery: Medina, Saudi Arabia"
  2. 8w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48043|batch #48043]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 9w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → medina-saudi-arabia-in-islam, medina
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: medina, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289948289|medina (#289948289)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  4. 9w ago · Kalendar · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Head of government → Salman ibn Sultan
    Köppen climate classification → desert climate
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Head of government: Salman ibn Sultan"
  5. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → The Vampire Diaries
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q28537, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  6. 11w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 10545
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 10545, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167482014|MEDINA (#167482014)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #"
  7. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → medina-saudi-arabia-in-islam, medina
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: medina-saudi-arabia-in-islam, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289948290|medina saudi arabia in islam (#289948290)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-ma"
  8. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0346140-Medina-Saudska-Arabie
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0346140-Medina-Saudska-Arabie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  9. 22w ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.amana-md.gov.sa/
    Instance of → big city, holy city of Islam
    Instance of → —
    Twinned administrative body → Mecca
    + 30 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|2 */ Official name: المدينة المنورة, Rescuing 1 sources and submitting 0 for archiving. #IABot (v2.0.9.5)"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.