Jeddah

Jeddah is the largest city in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia, on the eastern shore of the Red Sea in the Hejaz region. Wikipedia’s infobox gives its population as 3,751,722 in 2022, and the article cites an estimate of 3,812,058 for 2026 from World Population Review. It is the main gateway to Mecca, which lies 65 kilometres east of the city.

Jeddah Islamic Port is the 36th largest seaport in the world and the second largest in the Middle East after Jebel Ali in Dubai. It handled 4,215,248 twenty-foot container units in 2018. King Abdulaziz International Airport has four passenger terminals, including the Hajj Terminal, an outdoor terminal of large white tents built to handle more than two million pilgrims during Hajj.

Jeddah Tower is planned to be about one kilometre tall. Construction halted in January 2018 and restarted in September 2023, and completion is expected in 2029, according to MEED as cited by Wikipedia.

Jeddah appears in our report on the India and Saudi Arabia Haj 2027 agreement, which fixed India’s quota at 1,75,025 pilgrims.

Sources: Wikipedia, Jeddah.