Dhahran

[ dah-rahn ]

noun

1. a city in E Saudi Arabia: oil center.

Dhahran

/ dɑːˈrɑːn /

noun

1. a town in E Saudi Arabia: site of the original discovery of oil in the country (1938)

Example Sentences

Two weeks earlier, on the far side of the country, a fellow traveler had pointed at a map and described the crumbling buildings here, in Dhahran al-Janub, arranged in a colorful open-air museum.

From New York Times

Saudi state media released no images of Jake Sullivan and Prince Mohammed meeting in Dhahran, a city in the kingdom’s far east that’s home to its state-run oil giant, the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. known as Saudi Aramco.

From Seattle Times

That cost, along with the construction of a new U.S. consulate in Jeddah and planning for a new consulate in Dhahran, was more than $1 billion.

From Seattle Times

After an American oil company struck liquid gold in Dhahran in 1938, tapping into what would become the largest source of petroleum in the world, the kingdom was rapidly outfitted with pipelines, refineries, and export terminals.

From Salon

The vast edifice rises on the edge of a highway on the outskirts of Al-Khobar - one of the three conjoined cities with Dhahran and Dammam on the Gulf coast.

From BBC