Dammam (Also Damman or Ad DammÄ?m) (Arabic: الدمام) is the capital of the Eastern Province in Saudi Arabia.
Dammam is the largest city in the Eastern Province; Dammam Port is one of the largest on the Persian Gulf. Its port for import-export traffic is second to Jeddah's port.
It is served by the new King Fahd International Airport, which was used by the US military during the Gulf War in 1991. Other cities that surround Dammam are Khobar, which is a thriving modern economic hub, and Dhahran, which is the headquarters for Saudi Aramco, one of the largest oil Companies in the world.
Together the cities have a population of around 2 million, of whom 750,000 live in the city of Dammam itself.
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