Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia

Ash- Sharqiyah (Arabic الشرقية, DMG aš - Šarqīya, German Eastern Province, Eastern Province also English ) is the geographically largest province in Saudi Arabia. It has an area of ​​672,522 km ² and has 3,762,225 inhabitants ( 2010). The management unit extends along the Saudi Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf. It has borders with the neighboring countries of Kuwait, Bahrain ( island), Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen. The capital is Dammam. Here is next to Riyadh and Jeddah, one of the three international Saudi airports.

A few kilometers from Dammam is located in Al Khobar, a business center with a large seaport. Here the so-called King Fahd Causeway, which connects the island state of Bahrain with the Saudi mainland begins. It was completed in the 1980s. Usually, this bridge is crowded with travelers from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, visit the weekend to the more liberal Bahrain, to participate in a permissive nightlife can.

The neighboring city of al - Khobar Dhahran is. Here is the head office of Aramco, a Saudi- American joint venture for petroleum research and promotion. Here are also the most oil fields of Saudi Arabia. This oil is shipped from the overseas port Ras Tanura in al - Jubail in many countries. It is also important as a raw material for many chemical plants in Al- Jubail.

The second main product of the Kingdom - Dates - also makes up a large part of the economy in the ash Sharqiyah. Every year thousands of tons of dates are harvested in the oases of al - Hasa and al - Qatif.

The current ruler of the province is Prince Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al -Saud. Ash- Sharqiyah was conquered in 1914 by the Saudis. She was known until then part of the Ottoman Empire, and under the name of al - Hasa.

The vast majority of the population is Shiite confession, as well as in neighboring Bahrain. Shiites live mostly in Saudi Arabia in bad conditions because Wahhabism is the state religion and Shiism does not recognize. That is the main reason that the opposition to the Saudi royal family in this province is relatively many followers.

Major cities in Ash- Sharqiyah

  • Dammam: capital of the Ash- Sharqiyah, the third largest city in Saudi Arabia ( Riyadh and Jeddah)
  • Hofuf: in the region al - Hasa, the largest oasis in Asia
  • Abqaiq: home to many oil and gas plants
  • Al- Khobar: main economic center of the ash Sharqiyah
  • Al- Jubail: one of two main industrial cities of Saudi Arabia ( Yanbu al - Bahr next (Source seaside ) )
  • Al - Qatif: large oasis on the coast of the Persian Gulf, the biggest fishing center of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, almost all the inhabitants are Shiites
  • Chafdschi: industrial city on the border with Kuwait; occupied by Iraqis during the Gulf War (see also: Battle of Khafji )
  • Dhahran: Center of the Saudi oil industry, world headquarters of Aramco
  • Ras Tanura: largest oil refinery in the world, main oil export port of Saudi Arabia

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  • Province in Saudi Arabia
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