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Yanbu' al Bahr ( Arabic : ينبع البحر , Yanbuʿ al-Baḥr , "spring by the sea"), also known simply as Yanbu , Yambo or Yenbo , is a major Red Sea port in the Al Madinah province of western Saudi Arabia . It is approximately 300 kilometers northwest of Jeddah (at 24°05′N 38°00′E / 24.083°N 38.000°E / 24.083; 38.000 ). The population is 188,430 (2004 census). A large number of the residents are foreign expatriates working in the oil refineries and petrochemical industry, mostly from Asia, but there are
Yanbu's history dates back at least 2,500 years, when it was a staging point on the spice and incense route from Yemen to Egypt and the Mediterranean region.
The Invasion of Dul Ashir took place in Yanbu. Two or three months after Prophet Muhammad's return from Buwat, he appointed Abu Salamah Ibn Abd al-Assad to take his place in Medina while he was away commanding another raid. Between 150 and 200 followers joined this operation to al-Ushayra, Yanbu in either the month of Jumada al-awwal or Jumada al-Thani .