Buraidah

Buraidah بريدة
Buraidah Location in Saudi Arabia
Coordinates: 26°20′N 43°58′E / 26.333°N 43.967°E / 26.333; 43.967
Country	Saudi Arabia
Province	Al Qassim Province
Government
- Tory	Faisal abn Bindr
Population (2008)
- Total	670,000
Time zone	EAT (UTC+3)

Buraydah (Arabic: burayda 'بريدة') or Buraidah is the capital of Al-Qassim Province in northcentral Saudi Arabia in the heart of the Arabian peninsula. Buraydah lies equidistant from the Red Sea to the west and the Persian Gulf to the east. It has a population of 670,000 (2008 estimate).

Buraydah, the regional capital of Al-Qassim Province, is located on the edge of the Wadi Al-Rummah. Wadi Al-Rummah is the longest wadi in the Kingdom, stretching some 772 miles (2000 km) from near Madinah to the Al-Thuwairat sands.

Buraydah has a typical desert climate, with hot summers, cold winters and low humidity.

In Buraydah, agriculture is still the cornerstone of the economy. The traditional oasis products of dates, lemon, orange and other fruits are still important. Modern introduction of wheat production has become so successful that Buraydah is one of the largest producers in the kingdom, important in making Saudi Arabia a net exporter of cereal. Alqassim University is located in Buraydah city.

Notable landmarks

• Museum of Buraidah: there is in the way of King Abdul Aziz Center next to King Khaled Beridp civilization, and there are days devoted to families and day for young people, and it recognizes the visitor to the area's heritage from all different aspects of life.

• Market trades and handicrafts

• Garden and the Park Khalid King: the vicinity of the Museum, a major Baridah gardens open to visitors every day and in meetings and places for children is innocent and is in the summer, the administration of the summer activities for families and children.

• Brida, a water tower: and opened to visitors in the summer (festival).

• Alaieri resort: in the north of the northern town of Buraidah ring, a number of chalets.

• Gulf Park entertainment: located in West Brida on the Western Ring Road and the chalets and a large swimming pool and places to sit and play electronic games.

Roads and Transport

Linking the city of Buraidah in Riyadh highway is 317 kilometers long, linking the city's Medina as a highway, which is one of the best ways of the world's seventh-long 450 km and a highway linking Bhail length of 250 kilometers and is surrounded by a ring road Between the major tunnel, as a highway linking it (international) up to the border with Jordan, through a single region of Mecca, as a dual network of roads linking it with the rest of the provinces Qassim. The historic city of Buraydah is one of the old pilgrim routes coming from Iraq through a Zubaydh.

Buraidah is proposed to be served by a new railway line.

Population

The city has experienced very high rates of population growth, from 670,000 inhabitants in the 2008s .

References

Coordinates: 26°20′N 43°58′E / 26.333°N 43.967°E / 26.333; 43.967