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Riyadh Province منطقة الرياض
Province
Map of Saudi Arabia with Riyadh highlighted
Coordinates: 23°0′N 45°30′E / 23.000°N 45.500°E / 23.000; 45.500
Country	Saudi Arabia
Capital	Riyadh
Governorates	20
Government
• Governor	Faisal bin Bandar Al Saud
• Deputy Governor	Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz
Area
• Total	404,240 km (156,080 sq mi)
Population
• Total	8,591,748
• Density	21/km (55/sq mi)
GDP
• Total	US$ 243.8 billion (2022)
Post Code	(5+4)-Digit
Website	www.riyadh.gov.sa

The Riyadh Province (Arabic: منطقة الرياض Manṭiqat ar-Riyāḍ), also known as the Riyadh Region, is a province of Saudi Arabia, located in the geographic center of the country and the center of the Arabian Peninsula. It has an area of 404,240 km (156,080 sq mi) and with a 2022 population of 8,591,748, it is the second-largest region by area, behind the Eastern Province and the largest by population. The capital governorate of the province is the Riyadh Governorate and it is named after the capital of the kingdom, Riyadh, which is the most populous city in the region and the kingdom, with a little less than two-thirds of the population of the region residing within the city. The province was governed for nearly five decades by Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz from 1963 to 2011 shortly before he became the Crown Prince in 2012. Currently, it is governed by Prince Faisal bin Bandar.

Other populous cities in the region include Al Ghat, Dawadmi, Afif, Zulfi and Majma'ah. Approximately half of the region's area is desert, and it only borders other regions of the kingdom; it has no international borders. The region borders, clockwise from the north, the Eastern Province, Najran Province, ʽAsir Province, Mecca Province, Medina Province and the Al-Qassim Province. It is one of the 7 regions of the kingdom that do not have a coastline.

Population

Population development since 1992:

Subdivisions

In addition to the Municipality of Riyadh, the region is divided into 19 governorates (muhafazat) and 1 sub-governorate (markaz):

• Riyadh
• Layla
• 'Afif
• Dawadmi
• al-Ghat
• al-Gway'iyyah
• al-Hareeg
• Al-Kharj
• Al Majma'ah
• Al-Muzahmiyyah
• al-Sulayyil
• Dhruma
• Dir'iyyah
• Hotat Bani Tamim
• Huraymila
• Rimah
• Shaqra
• Thadig
• Wadi ad-Dawasir
• The sub-governorate (markaz) of Marat, which is tied directly to the Municipality of Riyadh.
• Yabrin
• Zulfy City (Al-Zulfi City)

Modern history of Riyadh Province and Saudi Arabia

List of governors

References

1. "Estimating Saudi Arabia's Regional GDP Using Satellite Nighttime Light Images" (PDF), www.kapsarc.org
2. "Population Characteristics surveys" (PDF). General Authority for Statistics. 2017.
3. "Saudi Arabia: Regions & Major Cities – Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de.
4. "Riyadh Princes". Riyadh.gov.sa. Retrieved 27 March 2012.

External links

• Official website (in Arabic)
• "Official website". (in English)
• "Riyadh Province". Splendid Arabia. Travel. 17 August 2013.
• Central Department of Statistics and Information (CDSI), official Saudi census figures from 2004:
  • "Distribution of Population in the Kingdom's Administrative Regions by Gender and Nationality (Saudis, Non-Saudis)". Archived from the original on 3 January 2008.
  • "Distribution of Population in the Governorates of the Kingdom by Sex and Nationality (Saudis, Non-Saudis)". (CDSI). Archived from the original on 3 January 2008.

v t e Places adjacent to Riyadh Province
Ha'il Province Qasim Province Northern Borders Province Medina Province Mecca Province Riyadh Province Eastern Province ʽAsir Province Najran Province

v t e Riyadh Region
Capital: Riyadh
Afif Al Bir Al Zulfi Al-Ghat Al-Muzahmiyya Al-Quway'iyah Almardmah Dawadmi Dhurma Diriyah Al-H̨āyir Al-H̨arīq Harmah H̨awţah Sudayr Hotat Bani Tamim Jalajil Al-Kharj Layla Al Majma'ah Riyadh Shaqra Sudair Industrial City As Sulayyil Thadig Tharmada Ushaiger 'Uyayna Wadi ad-Dawasir Wadi Faran

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