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There are 11 local licensed banks in Saudi Arabia: [2] Bank name (English) Bank name (Arabic) Headquarters. Founded. Stock code [3] Saudi National Bank (SNB) البنك الأهلي السعودي. Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia Standard Time ( Arabic: التوقيت القياسي السعودي, romanized : At-Tawqīt al-qiyāsiyy as-suʿūdiyy ), abbreviated as SAST, is the standard time zone of Saudi Arabia. The time zone is 3 hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+03:00) with no daylight savings. [ 1] SAST is defined by the 45th Meridian East. Before a standardized ...
Time zones of the world. A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.
Rank Country City Population Founding date Image 1 Egypt Cairo: 22,623,874 968 CE [3]: 2 Iraq Baghdad: 8,126,755 762 CE [4]: 3 Saudi Arabia Riyadh: 7,676,654 1746 CE [5]: 4 Egypt ...
ISO 8601. International standard ISO 8601 ( Representation of dates and times) defines unambiguous written all-numeric big-endian formats for dates, such as 2022-12-31 for 31 December 2022, and time, such as 23:59:58 for 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 58 seconds. These standard notations have been adopted by many countries as a national standard, e ...
Mecca ( / ˈmɛkə /; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, [ a] commonly shortened to Makkah[ b]) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam. [ 4] It is 70 km (43 mi) inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow valley 277 m (909 ft) above sea level.
Riyadh ( / riːˈjɑːd / ree-YAHD; [ 5] Arabic: الرياض, romanized : ar-Riyāḍ, standard pronunciation: [ar.riˈjaːdˤ], Najdi pronunciation: [er.rɪˈjɑːðˤ]; lit. 'the Meadows') is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. [ 6] It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the Riyadh Governorate.
King Khalid International Airport (Arabic: مطار الملك خالد الدولي Maṭār al-Malik Khālid al-Duwaliyy, IATA: RUH, ICAO: OERK) is an international airport located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, [3] designed by the architectural firm HOK, and Arabian Bechtel Company Limited served as the construction manager on behalf of the Saudi government.