Dawadmi
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Ad Dawadimi , is located on top of Najd
hill, the central area of Saudi Arabia
. Another name for the city is عالية نجد which literally translates into "The High of Najd". It's located approximately 300 km west of the capital Riyadh
. Dwadmi has over 50,000 inhabitants in the city alone. Over 200 other smaller cities and counties follow the district of Dwadmi.
In April 2003, the new airport
in the city was inaugurated by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. The airport is still one of the newest in the Kingdom and can handle up to one million passengers. Some three kilometers southwest from the modern city centre, south of the road to the airport, lies one of the kingdoms oldest palaces. King Abdulaziz
palace is a landmark of the city and there is an ongoing rehabilitation project to protect it. The project is being handled by CIAH under the name "Rehabilitation Project of King Abdel Aziz Palace, Dawadmi".
Najd
Najd or Nejd , literally Highland, is the central region of the Arabian Peninsula.-Boundaries :The Arabic word nejd literally means "upland" and was once applied to a variety of regions within the Arabian Peninsula...
hill, the central area of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
. Another name for the city is عالية نجد which literally translates into "The High of Najd". It's located approximately 300 km west of the capital Riyadh
Riyadh
Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province, and belongs to the historical regions of Najd and Al-Yamama. It is situated in the center of the Arabian Peninsula on a large plateau, and is home to 5,254,560 people, and the urban center of a...
. Dwadmi has over 50,000 inhabitants in the city alone. Over 200 other smaller cities and counties follow the district of Dwadmi.
In April 2003, the new airport
Dawadmi Domestic Airport
Dawadmi Domestic Airport , also known as Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz Domestic Airport , is an airport in Dawadmi, a city in the Riyadh province in Saudi Arabia. It lies in the Najd some west of the town center of Dawadmi. The airport has a single runway in roughly NNW to SSE direction...
in the city was inaugurated by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. The airport is still one of the newest in the Kingdom and can handle up to one million passengers. Some three kilometers southwest from the modern city centre, south of the road to the airport, lies one of the kingdoms oldest palaces. King Abdulaziz
Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia
King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia was the first monarch of the Third Saudi State known as Saudi Arabia. He was commonly referred to as Ibn Saud....
palace is a landmark of the city and there is an ongoing rehabilitation project to protect it. The project is being handled by CIAH under the name "Rehabilitation Project of King Abdel Aziz Palace, Dawadmi".