Jidda Island

Jidda Islands (Arabic: جزيرة جدة) are a group of three small uninhabited islets in Bahrain, lying to the west of Bahrain Island and just north of Umm an Nasan in the Persian Gulf.

They are 17.5 km (10.9 mi) west of the capital, Manama, on Bahrain Island.

[1][2] Majeed Marhoon, Abdulhadi Khalaf and several other political activists spent time in the prison in the 1960s and 1970s.

[4] The island has a palace, gardens, a helipad, a mosque[5] and several other facilities made for the prime minister and his family, although the island is uninhabited and Sheikh Khalifa himself lived in Riffa, Bahrain Island until his death in November 2020.

It is connected to Umm an Nasan by a 1.75 km (1.09 mi) causeway.