Riyadh Region

Riyadh Province, is a province in central , covering much of the historic region in the heart of the . Its administrative seat is , the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia.
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  • Type: State with 8,220,000 residents
  • Description: province of Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as: “Ar riyad”, “Ar Riyāḑ”, “Ar riyad (province)”, “Ar Riyad (province)”, “Ar Riyad (Province)”, “Ar Riyad province”, “Ar Riyad Province”, “Ar-Riyadh Province”, “Khāṣirah”, “Mintaqat al-Riyad”, “Mintaqat ar Riyad”, “Propinsi Ar-Riyad”, “Provincia de riad”, “Regió de Riyad”, “Riad (Provinz)”, “Rijādas province”, “Riyadh”, “Riyadh Province”, “SA-01”, “правінцыя Рыяд”, “Рыяд (правінцыя)”, “إمارة منطقة الرياض”, “إماره منطقه الرياض”, “الرياض (منطقة)”, “الرياض|”, “رياض (منطقة)”, “صوبہ الریاض”, “अल-रियाज़ प्रान्त”, “रियाद प्रांत”, “ரியாத் பிராந்தியம்”, and “リヤド州”
  • Neighbors: and

Riyadh Region

Latitude
23.3333° or 23° 20′ north
Longitude
45.3333° or 45° 20′ east
Population
8,220,000
Elevation
751 metres (2,464 feet)
Open location code
7HM788MM+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1236709926
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
108411
Wiki­data ID
Q1249255
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Riyadh Region” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሪያድ ክልል”
  • Arabic: “الرياض”
  • Arabic: “منطقة الرياض”
  • Arabic: “منطقة الرياض‎”
  • Armenian: “ալ-Ռիադի մարզ”
  • Armenian: “Էև-Ռիյադ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ər-Riyad regionu”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Рыяд”
  • Belarusian: “Рыяд”
  • Bengali: “রিয়াদ অঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “রিয়াদ প্রদেশ”
  • Catalan: “Província de Riad”
  • Catalan: “Província de Riyad”
  • Cebuano: “Minţaqat ar Riyāḑ”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ڕیاز”
  • Chechen: “Рияд”
  • Chinese: “利雅得省”
  • Croatian: “Rijad (pokrajina)”
  • Croatian: “Rijad”
  • Czech: “Provincie Rijád”
  • Danish: “Riyadh Provins”
  • Danish: “Riyadh”
  • Dutch: “Riyad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “منطقه الرياض”
  • Esperanto: “Emirlando Riado”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Riado”
  • Estonian: “Ar-Riyāḑi provints”
  • Finnish: “Ar Riyad”
  • French: “Riyad”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Riad”
  • German: “Provinz Riad”
  • Greek: “Ριάντ”
  • Hausa: “Yankin Riyadh”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז ריאד”
  • Hindi: “रियाद प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Rijád tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Riyadh”
  • Italian: “Al-Riyad”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Riad”
  • Japanese: “リヤード州”
  • Javanese: “Wilayah Riyadh”
  • Kazakh: “Риад облысы”
  • Kirghiz: “Riyadh Чөлөө”
  • Korean: “리야드주”
  • Latvian: “Rijādas mintaka”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Riyadh”
  • Malayalam: “റിയാദ് പ്രവിശ്യ”
  • Marathi: “रियाध प्रांत”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Riyāḍ Séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Riyāḍ Tōa-khu”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لمنطقة د الرياض”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ar Riyad (provins)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ar Riyad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Riyadh-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Ar Riyad”
  • Oromo: “Naannoo Riyadh”
  • Ossetian: “Эр-Рияд (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Pampanga: “Ar Riyad”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਿਯਾਦ ਖੇਤਰ”
  • Persian: “استان ریاض”
  • Polish: “Rijad”
  • Portuguese: “Ar Riyad”
  • Portuguese: “Riade”
  • Pushto: “د ریاض سیمه”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Riad”
  • Russian: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Scots: “Riyadh Province”
  • Scots: “Riyadh Region”
  • Serbian: “Ријад (провинција)”
  • Serbian: “Ријад”
  • Sindhi: “رياض صوبو”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Riad”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Rijad”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Riyadh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ریاض اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Riad”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Ar-Riyadh”
  • Swahili: “Eneo la Riyad”
  • Swedish: “Ar-Riyad”
  • Swedish: “Riyadh”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Riyadh”
  • Tajik: “Минтақаи Риёд”
  • Talysh: “Ər Rijad vilojət”
  • Tamil: “ரியாத் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Әр-Рияд вилаяте”
  • Telugu: “రియాద్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Turkish: “Riyad Bölgesi”
  • Uighur: “رىياد ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Ер-Ріяд”
  • Urdu: “الرياض علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Riyod viloyati”
  • Venetian: “Riad (provincia)”
  • Venetian: “Riad”
  • Vietnamese: “Riyadh”
  • Volapük: “Riyadiän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Riyadh”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ریاض”
  • Wu Chinese: “利雅得省”

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