Saudi Arabia
Nejd
Riyadh Region

Riyadh

Riyadh is the capital of , slightly east of the center of the country in the heart of the Tuwaig escarpment.
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  • Type: City with 5,190,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as: “Al Riyadh”, “Al-Riyadh”, “AlRiyadh”, “Ar Riyāḑ”, “Ar Riyadh”, “Ar Riyādh”, “Reyadh”, and “الرياض”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Al Masmak Palace and Deera Square.

Museum
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, also called the Masmak Fortress or Masmak Fort, is a historic clay and mudbrick fort in the ad-Dirah neighborhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located in close proximity to the al-Hukm Palace in the Qasr al-Hukm District.

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, also known as Justice Square, Safa Square, or Chop-Chop Square is a public space in the al-Dirah neighborhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is located adjacent to the al-Hukm Palace compound and Imam Turki bin Abdullah Grand Mosque in the Qasr al-Hukm District.

Theme park
, also known as the Water Tower Park, is a 2.9 hectares that encircles the and is one of the eight municipal parks and gardens that constitute the King Abdulaziz Historical Centre in al-Fouta neighborhood of Riyadh, .

Riyadh

Latitude
24.6389° or 24° 38′ 20″ north
Longitude
46.716° or 46° 42′ 58″ east
Population
5,190,000
Elevation
612 metres (2,008 feet)
IATA airport code
RUH
United Nations Location Codes
SA RIY and SA RUH
Open location code
7HP8JPQ8+HC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 315358390
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
108410
Wiki­data ID
Q3692
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Riyadh” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Riyadh”
  • Adyghe: “Рияд”
  • Afrikaans: “Riaad”
  • Albanian: “Riadi”
  • Amharic: “ሪያድ”
  • Arabic: “الرياض”
  • Arabic: “العاصمة السعودية”
  • Arabic: “اليمامة”
  • Arabic: “رياض”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة السعودية”
  • Aragonese: “Riad”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Ռիադ”
  • Armenian: “Էր Ռիադ”
  • Arpitan: “Riyad”
  • Assamese: “ৰিয়াধ”
  • Asturian: “Riyad”
  • Avaric: “Ар-Рияд”
  • Awadhi: “रियाद”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ər-Riyad”
  • Balinese: “Riyadh”
  • Bashkir: “Әр-Рияд”
  • Bashkir: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Basque: “Riad”
  • Belarusian: “Рыяд”
  • Belarusian: “Эр-Рыяд”
  • Bengali: “রিয়াদ”
  • Bosnian: “Rijad”
  • Breton: “Riyadh”
  • Bulgarian: “Рияд”
  • Burmese: “ရီယာ့ဒ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Al-Riyad”
  • Catalan: “Reyadh”
  • Catalan: “Riad”
  • Cebuano: “Riyadh”
  • Central Bikol: “Riyadh”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕیاز”
  • Chechen: “Рияд”
  • Chechen: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Chinese: “Riyadh”
  • Chinese: “利雅得/利雅德”
  • Chinese: “利雅得”
  • Chinese: “利雅德”
  • Chinese: “花園”
  • Croatian: “Rijad”
  • Czech: “Rijád”
  • Danish: “Reyadh”
  • Danish: “Riyadh”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Riyad”
  • Dotyali: “रियाद”
  • Dutch: “Khafji”
  • Dutch: “Riaad”
  • Dutch: “Riad”
  • Dutch: “Riyad”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الرياض”
  • Esperanto: “Riado”
  • Estonian: “Ar-Riyāḑ”
  • Faroese: “Riyadh”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Riyadh”
  • Finnish: “Riad”
  • French: “ar-Riyāḍ”
  • French: “Riyad”
  • Gagauz: “Riyad”
  • Galician: “Riad”
  • Georgian: “ერ-რიადი”
  • German: “Riad”
  • Greek: “Ριάντ”
  • Gujarati: “રિયાદ”
  • Haitian: “Riyad”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Riyadh”
  • Hausa: “Riyadh”
  • Hawaiian: “Riyadh”
  • Hebrew: “ריאד”
  • Hindi: “रियाद”
  • Hindi: “रियाध”
  • Hungarian: “Rijád”
  • Iban: “Riyadh”
  • Icelandic: “Ríad”
  • Ido: “Riad”
  • Ido: “Riyadh”
  • Iloko: “Riyadh”
  • Indonesian: “Riyadh”
  • Interlingue: “Riad”
  • Inuktitut: “ᕇᐋᑦ”
  • Irish: “Riyadh”
  • Italian: “al-Riyāḍ”
  • Italian: “Riad”
  • Italian: “Riadh”
  • Italian: “Riyad”
  • Japanese: “キャピタル・マーケット・オーソリティ本部ビル”
  • Japanese: “リヤド”
  • Javanese: “Riyadh”
  • Kabyle: “Riyaḍ”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Riyadh”
  • Kalaallisut: “Riyadh”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಯಾಧ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Er riyad”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Er-riyad”
  • Kashmiri: “ریاض”
  • Kashmiri: “رِیاض”
  • Kazakh: “Эр-Рияд қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Kirghiz: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Komering: “Riyadh”
  • Korean: “리야드”
  • Kurdish: “Riyad”
  • Latin: “Riadum”
  • Latvian: “Rijāda”
  • Ligurian: “Riyadh”
  • Lithuanian: “Rijadas”
  • Livvi: “Er-Rijad”
  • Lombard: “Riyad”
  • Luxembourgish: “Riad”
  • Macedonian: “Ријад”
  • Malagasy: “Riyadh”
  • Malay: “Riyadh”
  • Malay: “رياض”
  • Malayalam: “റിയാദ്”
  • Maltese: “Riyadh”
  • Maori: “Riata”
  • Marathi: “रियाध”
  • Mazanderani: “ریاض”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Riyadh”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Riyadh”
  • Minangkabau: “Riyadh”
  • Mingrelian: “ერ-რიადი”
  • Mongolian: “Рияд”
  • Mongolian: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الرياض”
  • Navajo: “Séítah Tó”
  • Nepali: “रियाद”
  • Northern Frisian: “Riad”
  • Northern Luri: “ریاض”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Riyadh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Riyadh”
  • Norwegian: “Riyadh”
  • Novial: “Riyad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Riyad”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rigadh”
  • Oriya: “ରିଆଦ”
  • Ossetian: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਿਆਧ”
  • Papiamento: “Riad”
  • Persian: “ریاض”
  • Piemontese: “Riyadh”
  • Polish: “Rijad”
  • Portuguese: “Riade”
  • Pushto: “رياض”
  • Pushto: “ریاض”
  • Quechua: “Riyad”
  • Romanian: “ar-Riyāḍ”
  • Romanian: “Riad”
  • Romanian: “Riyadh”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Russian: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱤᱭᱟᱫᱽ”
  • Sardinian: “Riyad”
  • Scots: “Riyadh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Riyadh”
  • Serbian: “Rijad”
  • Serbian: “Ријад”
  • Serbian: “الرياض”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rijad”
  • Shona: “Riyadh”
  • Sicilian: “Rihad”
  • Silesian: “Rijad”
  • Sindhi: “رياض”
  • Sinhala: “රියාද්”
  • Slovak: “Rijád”
  • Slovenian: “Riad”
  • Slovenian: “Rijad”
  • Somali: “Riyadh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ریاض”
  • Spanish: “Riad”
  • Sundanese: “Riyadh”
  • Swahili: “Riyad”
  • Swedish: “Riyadh”
  • Swiss German: “Riad”
  • Tagalog: “Riyadh”
  • Tajik: “Риёз”
  • Tajik: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Talysh: “Ər-Rijad”
  • Talysh: “Ər-Riyad”
  • Tamil: “ரியாட்”
  • Tamil: “ரியாத்”
  • Tatar: “Әр-Рияд”
  • Telugu: “రియాద్”
  • Telugu: “రియాధ్”
  • Thai: “ริยาด”
  • Thai: “รียาด”
  • Tibetan: “རིས་ཡག”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Riad”
  • Turkish: “Riyad”
  • Turkmen: “Er-Riýad”
  • Udmurt: “Эр-Рияд”
  • Uighur: “رىياد”
  • Ukrainian: “Ер-Ріяд”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Riad”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Rijad”
  • Urdu: “ریاض”
  • Uzbek: “Ar-riyod”
  • Uzbek: “Ar-Riyod”
  • Venetian: “Riyad”
  • Veps: “Rijad”
  • Vietnamese: “Ri-át”
  • Vietnamese: “Riyad”
  • Vietnamese: “Riyadh”
  • Vlax Romani: “Riyadh”
  • Volapük: “Riyad”
  • Võro: “Riad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Riyadh”
  • Welsh: “Riyadh”
  • Western Armenian: “Ալ-Ռիատ”
  • Western Armenian: “Ռիատ”
  • Western Frisian: “Ar-Riaad”
  • Western Frisian: “Riyad”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریاض”
  • Wu Chinese: “利雅得”
  • Yiddish: “ריאד”
  • Yoruba: “Riyadh”
  • Yue Chinese: “利雅得”
  • Zulu: “i-Riyadh”
  • “Riad”
  • “Riyadh”

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