East

Hidd :''To be distinguished from Ras al Hadd (رأس الحد), a district with a famous turtle breeding beach in Oman'' Al Hidd ( ar, الحد; transliterated: Al-Ḥidd) is a town in Bahrain, located on a sand spit on the southeastern extremity of Muh ...

City ( ar, مدينة شرق الحد) is a

planned city A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve ...

under construction in eastern

Muharraq Muharraq ( ar, المحرق, al-Muḥarraq) is Bahrain's third largest city and served as its capital until 1932 when it was replaced by Manama. The population of Muharraq in 2012 was 176,583. The city is located on Muharraq Island. Bahrain Int ...

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

. Planned by the Bahraini Ministry of Housing, it is a 242 hectare

public housing Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, def ...

project east of the existing town of

. Built on

reclaimed land Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamati ...

, it aims to provide affordable housing for Bahraini citizens. When fully completed, the city is expected to hold 4,523 housing units and accommodate 30,000 people.

Construction

The main consultant on the project is Al Matouck Consultants of Gulf House Engineering and

WS Atkins Atkins is a British multinational engineering, design, planning, architectural design, project management and consulting services company. It is a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin and is headquartered in London. The company was founded as WS Atkins & ...

. In 2011, the

Nass Corporation Nass Corporation B.S.C. is a Bahraini public joint-stock company established and listed on the Bahrain Stock Exchange since the year 2005. The paid-up capital is currently BHD 22 million. Nass Corporation has worked on many of Bahrain's major ...

was awarded a 21 million BHD ($56.6 million) contract for land reclamation and dredging work. In May 2014, the

was awarded an 18 million BHD ($47.7 million) contract to construct the first phase of the city. The first phase covered the construction of 483 housing units built over an 18 month period. The second phase would include the construction of at least 400 units. In September 2016, the Kuwaiti construction company Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al-Kharafi & Sons was awarded a 70 million BHD ($187 million) contract for infrastructure development, and the first phase of construction was completed in October 2018. The city will feature a public

health centre A healthcare center, health center, or community health center is one of a network of clinics staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses providing healthcare services to people in a certain area. Typical services covered are family pr ...

, 9

mosque A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...

s, 6 public schools, 19 children playgrounds and 4 public

garden A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is ''control''. The garden can incorporate bot ...

s. It is expected to boast 35km of marine parks, 39km of shaded areas, 3.8km of walkways and

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s. The total number of housing units include 2,827

villa A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became s ...

s, 1,212 apartments and 500 plots of land. The first 498 houses were distributed to the Bahraini public by the Ministry of Housing in November 2018.

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Construction

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