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The Nafud desert or simply The Nafud (Arabic: صحراء النفود, romanized: ṣahrā' an-nafūd) is a desert in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula at , occupying a great oval depression. It is 290 kilometres (180 mi) long and 225 kilometres (140 mi) wide, with an area of 103,600 square kilometres (40,000 sq mi).
Highway crossing the Nafud desert Three great deserts isolate the great plateau area Najd of Saudi Arabia from the north, east, and south, as the Red Sea escarpment does from the west. In the north, the An Nafud —sometimes called the Great Nafud because An Nafud is the term for desert—covers about 55,000 square kilometers at an elevation of ...
Map of Aqaba (1916) Three Howeitat clans on Nagb el Shtar, the Dhumaniyeh, the Darausha, and the Dhiabat, aided the effort to secure the pass of Aba el Lissan, along the Maan –Aqaba road. The Dhumaniyeh attacked the Fuweilah blockhouse at the pass while the Arab force under Auda and Lawrence attacked the Ghadir el Haj garrison along the rail ...
A corridor of sandy terrain known as the Ad-Dahna desert connects the An-Nafud desert (65,000 km 2 or 40,389 square miles) in the north of Saudi Arabia to the Rub' al-Khali in the south-east. [citation needed] The Tuwaiq escarpment is an 800 km (500 mi) arc that includes limestone cliffs, plateaus, and canyons.
It is an archaeological site on the northern edge of the Nafud desert, and this caused a large part of the archaeological site to be buried under the sand. On the site, archeological hills, traces of mud foundations, masonry units, earthenware fractures, and walls surrounding the site were found.
Tayma / ˈ t eɪ m ə / (Taymanitic: 𐪉𐪃𐪒, TMʾ, vocalized as: Taymāʾ; [1] Arabic: تيماء, romanized: Taymāʾ) or Tema (Hebrew: תֵּימָן Tēmān (Habakkuk 3:3)) is a large oasis with a long history of settlement, located in northwestern Saudi Arabia at the point where the trade route between Medina and Dumah begins to cross the Nafud desert.
Archaeological evidence is scattered in the 3-kilometer-long Janine Mountain off the Great Nafud Desert, although archaeological explorations of the site did not reveal a residential settlement, however, the dry lake and the buried wells in the northeastern parts of the site confirm that a settlement once existed nearby, which may have been buried by the Nafud sands that cover much of the site.
It is the largest city on the Arabian Peninsula, and is situated in the center of the an-Nafud desert, on the eastern part of the Najd plateau. The city sits at an average of 600 meters (2,000 ft) above sea level, [ 7 ] and receives around 5 million tourists each year, making it the forty-ninth most visited city in the world and the 6th in the ...