page_title: Jeddah
section_title: Jeddah Waterfront
hierarchical_section_title: Jeddah / Landmarks / Jeddah Waterfront
caption_attribution_description: English: Quran Gate, Entrance to Makkah, Makkah Gate
context_page_description: Jeddah, also spelled Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda, is a city in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia and the country's commercial center. With a population of about 3 million and half people, Jeddah is the largest city in Makkah Province, the second-largest in Saudi Arabia, and the tenth-largest in the Arab world. Jeddah Islamic Port, located on the Red Sea, is the second-largest and second-busiest seaport in the Arab world.
  Jeddah is the principal gateway to Mecca, the holiest city in Islam, located just 65 kilometres to the east, while Medina, the second-holiest city, is located 360 kilometres to the north.
  Economically, Jeddah is focusing on further developing capital investment in scientific and engineering leadership within Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East. Jeddah was independently ranked fourth in the Africa – Mid-East region in terms of innovation in 2009 in the Innovation Cities Index.
  Jeddah is of Saudi Arabia's primary resort cities and was named a Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network. Given the city's close proximity to the Red Sea, fishing and seafood dominates the food culture unlike other parts of the country.
context_section_description: The new waterfront was inaugurated November 2017, by Makkah Governor, Prince Khaled Al-Faisal.
  It spans an area of 730,000 kilometres on the Red Sea. It has many facilities including: swimming beaches, huts, floating marina dock, washrooms, restaurants, parks, dancing fountains, playgrounds and access to wifi.
  This project of developing JW (Jeddah Waterfront)  has been awarded as Jeddah Innovation Award of the year 1439H in the field of government innovation, by the province of Jeddah.
caption: Quran Gate, Entrance to Makkah, Makkah Gate
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