It is an ancient town, overlooking the Persian Gulf, in the north end of the oasis of Al-Qatif. It is located about 2.1 km south of Safwa city and about 1 km north of Al-Quddaih.
It has a mangrove area.
One of its neighborhoods is Al-Zara which used to be a historic city and the capital of the historic province of Bahrain since the early Islamic times
