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Aerial view with old South Terminal, the new Terminal 1 can be seen in the background. King Abdulaziz International Airport [a] (IATA: JED, ICAO: OEJN, colloquially referred to as Jeddah Airport, Jeddah International Airport, or KAIA), is a major international airport serving the cities of Jeddah and Mecca in Saudi Arabia, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Jeddah and covering an area of ...
King Abdulaziz University (KAU) (Arabic: جامعة الملك عبد العزيز) is a public research university in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Established in 1967 as a private university by a group of businessmen led by Muhammad Bakhashab and including author Hamza Bogary , it was named after the country's first monarch, King Abdulalziz ibn Saud ...
The King Abdulaziz Sports City (Arabic: مدينة الملك عبدالعزيز الرياضية) is a multi-purpose stadium in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holy capital. It is the largest stadium in Mecca and used mainly for football matches.
King Fahd Sports City Stadium: Riyadh: Cup finals, Riyadh derby: 70,200 after Renovation 2 King Abdullah Sports City Stadium: Jeddah: Al-Ahli, Al-Ittihad: 62,345 [1] 3 King Abdulaziz Sports City Stadium: Mecca: Al-Wehda: 38,000 4 Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City Stadium: Jeddah: Al-Ahli, Al-Ittihad: 27,000 [1] 5 King Saud University ...
The city was named after Abdullah, King of Saudi Arabia when the stadium opened. [1] The main stadium (King Abdullah International Stadium) is used for football, reaching a full capacity of 62,241 spectators. It is the biggest stadium in Jeddah, and the second biggest in Saudi Arabia, after Riyadh's King Fahd Stadium.
King Fahd's Fountain in Jeddah. King Fahd's Fountain was built in the 1980s and can be seen from a great distance. At 312 meters (1,024 ft), the Fahd Fountain is the highest water jet in the world, according to the Guinness World Records. [75] The fountain was donated to the City of Jeddah by the late King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, after whom it was ...
King Abdul-Aziz Air Base has been a major RSAF airbase since the USAF left in 1962, providing air defence, tactical and strategic support for the Eastern Province and nearby regions, as well as providing aviation related technical training to RSAF personnel. Between 1963 and 1999 the base was called Dhahran Air Base.
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud (Arabic: عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود; 15 January 1875 [note 3] – 9 November 1953), known in the Western world mononymously as Ibn Saud (Arabic: ابن سعود; Ibn Suʿūd), [note 4] was the founder and first king of Saudi Arabia, reigning from 23 September 1932 until his ...