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Shaar Castle
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
قلعة شعار is an ancient castle located near Abha in the south of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Machine-translated from “قلعة شعار” on the Arabic Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shaar Castle ranks #7,403 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #16 of the 21 mapped in Saudi Arabia. See how Saudi Arabia compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Shaar Castle?
Shaar Castle stands in Saudi Arabia, at 18.43699°, 42.46982°.
How famous is Shaar Castle?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,403 of 8,134 worldwide, and #16 in Saudi Arabia. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Shaar Castle?
Al-Dosariyah Castle, about 172 km away.
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