Dawadmi or Ad Dawadimi ( ar, الدوادمي) is a town in

Riyadh Province The Riyadh Province ( ar, منطقة الرياض '), also known as the Riyadh Region, is a region of Saudi Arabia, located in the geographic center of the country. It has an area of and with a 2017 population of 8,216,284, it is the second-la ...

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. Google Maps spells the name as Al Duwadimi. As of the 2004 census it had a population of 53,071 people. The town is mostly inhabited by the tribe of Banu 'Utaybah. It is located on top of

Najd Najd ( ar, نَجْدٌ, ), or the Nejd, forms the geographic center of Saudi Arabia, accounting for about a third of the country's modern population and, since the Emirate of Diriyah, acting as the base for all unification campaigns by the H ...

hill, the central area of Saudi Arabia. It is about west of

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''. January 10, 2013. Retrieved on January 10, 2013. By road, is located by road west of Riyadh. In April 2003, the new airport in the city was inaugurated by the

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of Saudi Arabia.

King Abdulaziz Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud ( ar, عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود, ʿAbd al ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd ar Raḥman Āl Suʿūd; 15 January 1875Ibn Saud's birth year has been a source of debate. It is generally accepted ...

palace is a landmark of the city and there is an ongoing rehabilitation project to protect it.

Missile Production near al Duwadimi

According to research at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, in California, a facility near al Duwadimi is operating a "burn pit" to dispose of solid-propellent leftover from production of ballistic missiles. On Dec 23, 2021, in an article by Zachary Cohen, CNN published satellite images of the site.

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Populated places in Riyadh Province {{SaudiArabia-geo-stub

Missile Production near al Duwadimi

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