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Ahad al Masarihah is a governorate in Jizan Province, in south-western Saudi Arabia.[2]
Ahad al Masarihah | |
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Village | |
  Ahad al Masarihah Location in Saudi Arabia | |
| Coordinates: 16°42′35″N 42°57′18″E / 16.70972°N 42.95500°E | |
| Country |  Saudi Arabia |
| Province | Jizan Province |
| Population (2016)[1] | |
| • Total | 110,710 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EAT) |
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 created grassland on the banks of the Khlab Valley in the form of a circular belt along Prince Muhammad Bin Nasser Ring Road.
Archaeological site edit
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 edit
The population of Ahad al Masarhah is 110,710, according to 2010 statistics.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "The Sixteenth Services Guide 2017 - Jazan Region" (PDF). General Authority of Statistics.
- ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. GeoNames database entry. (search Archived 2020-02-01 at the Wayback Machine) Accessed 13 May 2011.
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