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Jabal Maqla is a mountain located in northwest Saudi Arabia, near the Jordan border, above the Gulf of Aqaba, and is located in Tabūk, Saudi Arabia.

Map of Jabal Maqla%60 49876, Saudi Arabia

Jabal Maqla 'is one of the tallest mountains in the Arabian Peninsula and the estimate terrain elevation around is 2326 meters ASL. It is in the Madiyan Mountains. Variant forms of spelling for Jabal Maqla 'or in other languages: El-Maqla, Jabal Magla', Al-Makla, Jabal Maqla '(ar), Al-Makla, El-Maqla, El-Maqla, Jabal Magla`, Jabal Magla 'Jabal Maqla`, Jabal Maqla'. Its name means Burnt Mountain which is attributed to the black igneous rocks that cap the otherwise brown coulored mountain. It is located at Latitude: 28° 35' 48.27" and Longitude: 35° 20' 7.77"

The town of Al-Bad', Saudi Arabia lies to the north. The mountain is near one of the tallest in Saudi Arabia, Jabal al-Lawz, which is about 7 kilometers to the north and a few hundred meters taller.

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