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Highway 65 (Arabic: الطريق السريع ٦٥) is a major north–south controlled-access highway in central Saudi Arabia, spanning 1,427 km (887 mi).Popularly known as the Riyadh–Qassim Expressway, Highway 65 connects Howtat Bani Tamim to Qurayyat and further to the Al Hadithah border with Jordan, while providing connections to or passing through Riyadh, Majma'ah, al-Ghat, Zulfi ...
Before the introduction of tourist visas in 2019, the city received around 5 million tourists each year, making it the forty-ninth most visited city in the world and the 6th in the Middle East. [2] The numbers almost doubled in 2021, with 10.44 million tourists visiting Riyadh in 2021. [3]
Downtown Riyadh (Arabic: وسط الرياض, lit. 'middle Riyadh') is a term used for a group of 20 neighborhoods in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Covering an area of more than 3700 acres, it hosts some of the city's most important cultural and commercial districts, such as the King Abdulaziz Historical Center, the al-Batʼha commercial area and the Qasr al-Hukm District, while simultaneously ...
Al-Ghat (Arabic: الغاط), also Alghat, El-Ghat or Elghat, is a small town in Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. It is located 230 kilometres (140 mi) by road northwest of Riyadh . [ 1 ] As of the 2016 census it had a population of 16500 people.
The Tuwaiq Palace contains 24,000 square meters of recreational, social, dining, banqueting, conference and accommodation functions. Such diverse functions as a tenpin bowling alley, crèche, billiards, library, secretariats and hotel rooms are combined with the usual club facilities of swimming, tennis, squash, sauna, exercise, lounges, social ...
Al-Faisaliyyah is one of the most crime-infested areas of Riyadh and has been dubbed by locals as 'al-Mamnūʿāt' (Arabic: الممنوعات; [2] lit. no-go zone), and has one of the highest unemployment ratios in the capital. According to Asharq Al-Awsat in 2007, almost sixty percent of the residents living in were undocumented. [8]
A week before its official opening on 11 May 2023, [14] [15] the Riyadh Calendar released a promotional video for VIA Riyadh featuring American-Colombian actress Sofía Vergara. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Days later, Argentine professional footballer Lionel Messi was spotted in VIA Riyadh along with his family who had arrived in the Saudi capital just hours ...
'the smart street'), [1] [2] is a 4.75 km east–west commercial thoroughfare in northern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The street is named after the building of Saline Water Conversion Corporation, [3] [4] which is situated on its westernmost part.