Ahad al Masarihah

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Ahad al Masarihah
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Ahad al Masarihah
Location in Saudi Arabia
Coordinates: 16°42′35″N42°57′18″E / 16.70972°N 42.95500°E / 16.70972; 42.95500
Country Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
Province Jizan Province
Population
 (2016) [1]
 • Total110,710
Time zone UTC+3 (EAT)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EAT)

Ahad al Masarihah is a governorate in Jizan Province, in south-western Saudi Arabia, bordering Yemen [2]

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The governorate of Ahad al Msarihah is one of the governorates of the Jizan region, with villages and hamlets. There's a local market known as the Sunday Market with a carpentry area. It has grassland on the banks of the Khlab Valley in the form of a circular belt along Prince Muhammad Bin Nasser Ring Road.

Archaeological site

A notable archaeological site in the governorate is the city of Al-Khasouf. The historian Al-Hamdani mentioned it in his book The Characteristics of the Arabian Peninsula in four places. He said,

The width of the khasuf is a city of hakam, like the width of [the] sadah and its length from the east is one hundred nineteen degrees.

Population

The population of Ahad al Masarhah was noted as 110,710 on a census taken in 2010.

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References

  1. ↑ "The Sixteenth Services Guide 2017 - Jazan Region" (PDF). General Authority of Statistics.
  2. ↑ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. GeoNames database entry. (search Archived 2020-02-01 at the Wayback Machine ) Accessed 13 May 2011.

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