Al Hofuf

Al-Hofuf is the primary urban center in the Al-Ahsa Oasis inside the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. It is likewise recognized for being one of the biggest date manufacturers within the international, and for its antique souks and palaces. The town proper has a population of 150,000 and is part of a bigger populated oasis vicinity of towns and villages of around 600,000. It is located inland, southwest of Abqaiq and the Dhahran Dammam Al-Khobar metropolitan vicinity on the road south to Haradh. It is the nearest metropolis to the famous Ghawar oil area, one of the global's largest conventional fields.

Hofuf is one of the foremost cultural facilities in Saudi Arabia. A lot of famous households live there. The faculties of agriculture, veterinary remedy and animal resources for King Faisal University are placed inside the city. The Hofuf campus additionally has facilities where Saudi women can examine medicine, dentistry and home economics. Legend places this because the burial location of Laila and Majnoon, the celebrity-crossed pair of the most famous love story in the Arab and Muslim global. The Queen of Sheba is also fabled to have visited this city from her kingdom in Yemen. German explorer, Hermann Burchardt, photographed the metropolis in 1904.