Jizan Province

Jazan
Province
جازان
Map o Saudi Arabie wi Jazan heichlichtit
Caipital	Jizan
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Prince Muhammad bin Nasr
Area
• Total	11671 km2 (4,506 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	3,465,110
• Density	116.97/km2 (303.0/sq mi)
ISO 3166-2	09

Jazan (Arabic: جازان‎ Jazan) is the smawest province o Saudi Arabie. It stretches some 300 km alang the soothren Reid Sea coast, juist north o Yemen. It covers an aurie o 11,671 km² an a population o 1,365,110 at the 2010 census (prelimiary result). The caipital is the ceety o Jazan; Muhammad bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz is the current govrenor.

The province includes ower 100 islands in the Reid Sea. The Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabie's first protectit aurie, are hame tae the endangered Arabie gazelle an, in winter, migratory birds frae Europe.

Geography

Though the climate on the heichlands is similar tae the relatively wetter climate o 'Asir, the coastal regions o Jazan province are pairt o Tihamah, probably the hottest place in the warld, wi mean maximum temperaturs rangin frae 40 °C (104 °F) in Julie tae 31 °C (88 °F) in Januar. Heich humidity frae coastal lagoons maks the climate even less bearable than it wad be itherwise. Rainfaw is extremely law at less nor 75 millimetres (3 inches) per year. Sabya is locatit in the center atween the muntain an the beach.

Subdiveesions

The province is sub-dividit intae 14 govrenorates as follaes:

Jizan's Govrenorates

Name	Native name	Census 15 September 2004	Census (Preliminary) 28 April 2010
Abu Arish	أبو عريش	123,943	197,112
Alddair	الدائر	49,239	59,494
Alddarb	الدرب	52,062	69,134
Ahad Almasarihah	أحد المسارحة	70,038	110,710
Alaridah	العارضة	62,841	76,705
Alaydabi	العيدابي	52,515	60,799
Alharth	الحرث	47,073	18,586
Alrayth	الريث	13,406	18,961
Baish	بيش	58,269	77,442
Damad	ضمد	62,366	71,601
Farasan	فرسان	13,962	17,999
Jazan	جازان	255,340	157,536
Sabya	صبياء	198,086	228,375
Samtah	صامطة	128,447	201,656
Total Province	جازان	1,187,587	1,365,110

Further reading

• S.I. Bruk, Narody Peredney Azii (1960);
• S.I. Bruk, and V. S. Apenchenko, Atlas Narodov Mira (Moscow: Academy of Science, 1964)
• A. Gabriel, Religionsgeographie von Persien (Vienna, 1971).

External links

• Archived 2015-02-27 at the Wayback Machine