Photos of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, capital and largest city in Saudi Arabia, lies on the great limestone plateau of Nejd in the center of the Arabian Peninsula.

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The Al Faisaliah Tower is a 60-story building and has a restaurant encapsulated in the golden geodesic orb that tops the Tower. For more information • BBC News: Middle East: Saudi First Skyscraper

Cultural Center shows the stained-glass window of the Saudi Arabian National Flag in the King Fahd Cultural Center. For more information • King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz: Cultural Center

Kingdom Tower is the tallest building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. For more information • Kingdom Centre - Gold Winner of the Emporis Skyscraper Award 2002

The name Riyadh is derived from the Arabic word meaning a place of gardens and trees ('rawdah'). Today the city extends for some 600 square miles (1600 square kilometers) and has a population of more than 4.7 million. Riyadh is Saudi Arabia's educational, administrative, and financial center. Its architecture formerly represented the classic Arabic style, but in the oil boom of recent decades many buildings were torn down and replaced by large modern structures. Although in a highly arid area the city does receive some rainfall with five dams storing the runoff. There are also 96 wells and 290 miles (467 km) of pipe bringing huge volumes of water from desalination plants on the Persian Gulf.

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Not Rated	Desert Treks from Riyadh by Ionis Thompson The weekend - or longer - expeditions in this handbook were collated from notes made by the author and others over a 5-year span traveling out from Riyadh up to 1994, when all the information was verified as up-to-date.		Riyadh Handbook by Ionis Thompson This essential guide to living in Riyadh gives you information, advice and useful telephone numbers, plus photographs and street maps - an invaluable companion for every traveller.	Not Rated

Saudi Arabian Trivia

The Prince Abdullah Mosque in the Kingdom Tower lacated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is the highest in the world. The mosque, which was donated by Saudi businessman Prince Al Waleed bin Talal, is located 180 meters or 590 feet above sea level.