NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SURVEY GAZETTEER FOR SAUDI ARABIA

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UNITED STATES BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES

Elvyn A. Stoneman, Chairman
Richard R. Randall, Executive Secretary

Department of State

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Elvyn A. Stoneman, member
Sandra H. Shaw, deputy

Department of the Interior

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James R. Anderson, member
Solomon M. Lang, deputy

Department of Agriculture

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Raymond M. Housley, member
Lewis G, Glover, deputy

Department of Commerce

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Charles E. Harrington, member
Richard Forstall, deputy
Hazel McEwen, deputy

Government Printing Office . , . . , . , . . . Robert C. McArtor, member
John Antonio, deputy

Library of Congress. . . . . . . . . , , . . John A. Wolter, member
Myrl D. Powell, deputy
David K. Carrington, deputy

Department of Defense

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Philip D. Kuldell, member
Charles D. Rouse, deputy

Postal Service

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Shirley B. McDonald, member
T.R. Richards, Jr" deputy
Bernie G. Hylton, deputy

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary

Communications concerning the U,S, Board on Geographic Names
should be sent to the Executive Secretary, Defense Mapping Agency,
Building 56, U,S, Naval Observetory, Washington, D.C. 20305

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Transliteration System for Arabic Geographic Names

Names List-Salldi Arabia . . . . . . .

Names List-Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone

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Saudi

Arabia

OFFICIAL STANDARD NAMES

appro'...ed by the

UNITED STATES BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES

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Prepa re:("! by the
Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center
Washington, D, C. 20315, March 1978

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Saudi Arabia

32 International boundary
Province boundary
@ National capital
-+---+- Railroad
Road

There iJre no provlnclsl capitals,' admmi.
sttatlon is Irom Riyadh. Province bound-
Sf/es lJre approl/matc.
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THF REPRESENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL BQUN[)ARIES
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INTRODUCTION

This gazetteer contains about 20,800 entries for places and
features in two lists: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (20,670) and
the Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone (130). The reported
division of the neutral zone between Iraq and Saudi Arabia
had nat been ratified by these twa countries at the time of
com pletion of research for this publication in April 1977 .

The names in this gazetteer supsersede those in all previous
Board lists for the area.

The entries include standard names approved by the U.S.
Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and unapproved variant
names, the latter cross-referenced ta the standard names.
Users of the gazetteer should always refer to main entries for
approved names,

The basic name coverage correspands to that of maps at
the scales .of 1 :500,000, 1 :250,000, and larger scales in
selected areas. Entries include the names of fIrst-order
administrative divisions, populated places of different sizes,
various other cultural entities, and a variety of topographic
and hydrographic features.

Most of the entities can be identified and located by the
approved name or a recognizable variant of the approved
name on one or more of the following saurces:

1. Joint Operations Graphic (G) 1:250,000, D. Surveyor
Director of Military Survey (U.K.); Army Map Service,
U.S. Army Topographic Command, Defense Mapping
Agency Topographic Center, 1966-1976. [Partial
coverage. ]

2. Arabian Peninsula 1 :500,000 (Series K462), AMS
(from Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations,
1:500,000, USGS), 1963. [English and Arabic,]

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3. Arabian Peninsula 1:2,000,000, U,S. Geological
Survey, 1963.

4, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mineral Locality Map of the
Arabian Shield 1 :2,000,000, Ministry of Petroleum
and Mineral Resources, Directorate General of Mineral
Resources, Saudi Arabia, 1974. [English and Arabic.]

5, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Petroleum and
Mineral Resources, Directorate General of Mineral
Resources, Saudi Arabia, 1967-75, [A selection of 37
sheets covering portions .of central and western Saudi
Arabia, titled "Geologic Map" and "Mineral Investiga-
tions Map," Mast are scaled at 1:100,000, with a few
sheets at 1:10,000, 1:25,000, and 1:250,000.] .

6. British Admiralty charts, Hydrographic Department,
Great Britain, [various dates and scales,]

Interpretation of entries

It has been necessary to express in code numbers and
letters some of the information in this gazetteer in order to
accommodate it to machine tabulation,

Name.-Approved standard names and unapproved variant
names appear in the fIrst column. The variant names are
always cross-referenced to the standard names by use of the
word "see." Names containing generic elements preceding the
specifIc term (except names of populated places) are alpha-
betized by the specifIc part; thus Jaww ad Dukhiin, the name
.of a depression, is listed as Dukhan, Jaww ad, Where part of a
name is underlined, the use of the part not underlined is
optional. If two or more names are approved for a feature,
each is identifIed in parentheses and any or all may be
'lsed.

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Language labels are used to identify alternate local names
of nonintemational features. Local names of international
features are identified by major-political-entity labels. If only
one country is identified parenthetically, no name is available
for the feature in the other country. The following short
forms for names of countries contiguous to Saudi Arabia are
used in this gazett~er where it is necessary to indicate the
sovereignty of international names:

Yemen (Sana)
Yemen (Aden)

[Yemen Arab Republic]
[Peoples Democratic Republic of
Yemen]
[United Arab Emirates]

U.A.E.

A.. far as possible, Arabic names in this gazetteer have been
romanized from Arabic script according to the transliteration
system used jointly by the Board on Geographic Names and
the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British
Official Use (the BGN/PCGN 1956 System, [Revised in
1972]), which follows on pages xi through xvi. It is almost
always necessary to add missing symbols for short vowels
(vowel points) in Arabic script and to rewrite dialectal forms
in standard written Arabic. Names found written only in
roman letters but recognizable as Arabic have been recon-
structed into Arabic script and then transliterated.

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In a few cases, in which it was not possible to determine
complete BGN/PCGN Arabic forms, names have been given
in the form found in romanized sources and marked with an
asterisk (*) preceding the designation; however, individual
Arabic words recognizable in these names have been rendered
in the system.

The diacritical marks used in approved Arabic names in the
areas covered by this gazetteer are the macron n, the cedilla
(J, and the acute accent ('). These marks are to be used
whether the names are written in capital or lowercase letters.
In addition, the apostrophe (') and the inverted apostrophe

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('), representing the letters hamzah and 'ayn, respectively,
frequently occur in Arabic names.

In writing Arabic names in capital and lowercase letters,
every word in a name should be initially capitalized except
the following when they are not name-initial: wa (and) and
the definite article aq, ad, adh, aI, an, ar, as, ~, ash, at, at,
ath, az, and, a~, The word Al (with a macron), which should
not be confused with the defmite article, should always begin
with a capital letter.

Desi~ation.- The second column contains designations or
abbreviations of designations, as listed below. Because
practically all geographic tenns have varied meanings, the
senses in which the designator terms are used and the range
of features to which they are applied in this gazetteer are
stated in the list to reduce ambiguity. The distinctions that
can be made in a given gazetteer will vary with the quality of
the maps of the area and with the nature of the entities that
are named. Some of the features do not fit precisely into the
categories used to designate them and others could be
designated in two or more ways.

ADMD
ANCH

first-order administrative division (min(aqat)
anchorage (place within a harbor or roadstead
where ships may anchor)
area (tract of land identified by a name, but
without homogeneous character or established
boundaries; may be identified and named for
characteristics which no longer pertain to
it)
bay (coastal indentation of a size intermediate
between a gulf and a cove)
beach (deposit of sand or other. unconsolidated
material along a shore)
bight (open body of water forming a slight
recession in a coastline)
building

AREA

BAY

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BNKM

BSN

BUTE

CARN

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