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Hofuf

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Al Hofuf
ٱلْهُفُوف
Sahood Fort in Hofuf
Sahood Fort in Hofuf
Al Hofuf is located in Saudi Arabia
Al Hofuf
Al Hofuf
Location in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Coordinates: 25°23′N 49°35′E / 25.383°N 49.583°E / 25.383; 49.583
CountryFlag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia
ProvinceEastern
Government
 • MayorBin Jiluwi
 • Provincial governorSaud bin Nayef Al Saud
Elevation
154 m (505 ft)
Population
 (2014)
 • Total150,000
 • Estimate 
(2021)
858,395
 Hofuf Municipality estimate
Time zoneUTC+3
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3
Postal Code
(5 digits)
Area code+966-13
Websitewww.Hofuf.gov.sa[permanent dead link]

Al-Hofuf (Arabic: ٱلْهُفُوف al-Hufūf, also spelled Hofuf or Hufuf, also known as "Al-Hasa", "Al-Ahsa" or "Al-Hassa")[1] is the major urban city in the Al-Ahsa Oasis in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, with a population of 858,395 (as of 2021). It is also known for being one of the largest date producers in the world, and for its old souks and palaces.

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Al-Ahsa Oasis

Al-Ahsa Oasis

Al-Aḥsāʾ, also known as al-Ḥasāʾ (الْحَسَاء) or Hajar (هَجَر), is a traditional oasis historical region in eastern Saudi Arabia whose name is used by the Al-Ahsa Governorate, which makes up much of that country's Eastern Province. The oasis is located about 60 km (37 mi) inland from the coast of the Persian Gulf.

Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

The Eastern Province, also known as the Eastern Region, is the easternmost of the 13 provinces of Saudi Arabia. It is the largest province by area and the third most populous after the Riyadh Province and the Mecca Province. In 2017, the population was 4,900,325. Of these, 3,140,362 were Saudi citizens and 1,759,963 were foreign nationals The province accounts for 15.05% of the entire population of Saudi Arabia and is named for its geographical location relative to the rest of the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Arab world, and the largest in Western Asia and the Middle East. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to the south. Bahrain is an island country off its east coast. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt and Israel. Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and most of its terrain consists of arid desert, lowland, steppe, and mountains. Its capital and largest city is Riyadh. The country is home to Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam.

Date palm

Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as date palm, is a flowering plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates. The species is widely cultivated across northern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, and is naturalized in many tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. P. dactylifera is the type species of genus Phoenix, which contains 12–19 species of wild date palms.

Overview

The city proper has a population of 150,000 and is part of a larger populated oasis area of towns and villages of around 600,000. It is located inland, southwest of Abqaiq and the Dhahran–Dammam–Al-Khobar metropolitan area on the road south to Haradh. It is the closest city to the famous Ghawar oil field, one of the world's largest conventional (land-based) fields. Hofuf is one of the major cultural centers in Saudi Arabia. A lot of well-known families live there. The faculties of agriculture, veterinary medicine and animal resources for King Faisal University are located in the city (the others being in Dammam). The Hofuf campus also has facilities where Saudi women can study medicine, dentistry and home economics.

Legend places Hofuf as the burial place of Laila and Majnoon, the star-crossed pair of the most popular love story in the Arab and Muslim world. The Queen of Sheba is also fabled to have visited this city from her kingdom in Yemen. German explorer, Hermann Burchardt, photographed the city in 1904.[2]

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Abqaiq

Abqaiq

Abqaiq is a Saudi Aramco gated community and oil-processing facility located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, located in the desert 60 km southwest of the Dhahran-Dammam-Khobar metropolitan area, and north of the Rub' al-Khali, the second largest sand desert in the world also known as the "Empty Quarter". The community was built in the 1940s by Aramco. The Abqaiq community had a population of approximately 1,500 in 2012, though the inclusion of the population outside the Saudi Aramco community brings this number closer to 30,000.

Dhahran

Dhahran

Dhahran is a city located in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. With a total population of 240,742 as of 2021, it is a major administrative center for the Saudi oil industry. Together with the nearby cities of Dammam and Khobar, Dhahran forms part of the Dammam Metropolitan Area, which is commonly known as greater Dammam and has an estimated population of 4,140,000 as of 2012.

Dammam

Dammam

Dammam is the fifth-most populous city in Saudi Arabia after Riyadh, Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina. It is the capital of the Eastern Province. With a total population of 1,252,523 as of 2020. The judicial and administrative bodies of the province, in addition to the administrative offices of other minor governmental departments functioning within the province, are located in the city. The word itself is generally used to refer to the city, but may also refer to its eponymous governorate.

Haradh

Haradh

Haradh is a large town and industrial city in the Ahsa Governorate in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) southwest of Hofuf. Due to its location above the Ghawar oil field, several oil and gas wells, along with oil refineries are located in the area, all operated by Saudi Aramco. The village is also the site of one of the largest integrated dairy farms in the world, owned and operated by the National Agricultural Development Company (NADEC).

King Faisal University

King Faisal University

King Faisal University (KFU) is a public university with the main campus in the city of Hofuf in Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia founded in 1975. KFU was initially established with four colleges: two in Dammam and the other two in Al-Ahsa. Later, the colleges in Dammam have been segregated to become the Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University.

Queen of Sheba

Queen of Sheba

The Queen of Sheba is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for the Israelite King Solomon. This account has undergone extensive Jewish, Islamic, Yemenite and Ethiopian elaborations, and it has become the subject of one of the most widespread and fertile cycles of legends in West Asia and East Africa.

Sabaeans

Sabaeans

The Sabaeans or Sabeans were an ancient group of South Arabians. They spoke the Sabaean language, one of the Old South Arabian languages. They founded the kingdom of Sabaʾ in modern-day Yemen, which was believed to be the biblical land of Sheba and "the oldest and most important of the South Arabian kingdoms".

Yemen

Yemen

Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and shares maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Yemen is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the peninsula, occupying 555,000 square kilometres, with a coastline stretching about 2,000 kilometres. Its constitutionally stated capital, and largest city, is Sanaa. As of 2021, Yemen has an estimated population of 30.4 million.

Hermann Burchardt

Hermann Burchardt

Hermann Burchardt was a German explorer and photographer of Jewish descent, who is renowned for his black and white pictorial essays of scenes in Arabia in the early 20th century.

Economy

Historically, Hofuf made textiles out of wool, silk, and cotton. The town was also renowned for its fruit of the date palm, the Arabs considering the khalasi variety of dates, locally grown in Hofuf, and also the fardh variety of Oman, among the best.[3] As of 1920, the city was known for making coffee pots from silver and brass.[4]

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Wool

Wool

Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have properties similar to animal wool.

Oman

Oman

Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is an Arab country located in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Oman shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, while sharing maritime borders with Iran and Pakistan. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman on the northeast. The Madha and Musandam exclaves are surrounded by the United Arab Emirates on their land borders, with the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman forming Musandam's coastal boundaries. Muscat is the nation's capital and largest city.

Brass

Brass

Brass is an alloy of copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn), in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion. In use since prehistoric times, it is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may replace each other within the same crystal structure.

Climate

Al Hofuf has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) with long, very hot summers and mild, short winters.

Climate data for Al Ahsa (1985–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 32.7
(90.9) 		37.8
(100.0) 		41.2
(106.2) 		45.0
(113.0) 		49.0
(120.2) 		50.6
(123.1) 		50.8
(123.4) 		50.0
(122.0) 		48.0
(118.4) 		45.6
(114.1) 		45.8
(114.4) 		32.5
(90.5) 		50.8
(123.4)
Average high °C (°F) 21.2
(70.2) 		24.2
(75.6) 		28.9
(84.0) 		35.1
(95.2) 		41.5
(106.7) 		44.4
(111.9) 		45.7
(114.3) 		45.4
(113.7) 		42.3
(108.1) 		37.6
(99.7) 		29.9
(85.8) 		23.4
(74.1) 		35.0
(95.0)
Daily mean °C (°F) 14.7
(58.5) 		17.2
(63.0) 		21.5
(70.7) 		27.2
(81.0) 		33.3
(91.9) 		36.3
(97.3) 		37.8
(100.0) 		37.2
(99.0) 		33.8
(92.8) 		29.2
(84.6) 		22.4
(72.3) 		16.6
(61.9) 		27.3
(81.1)
Average low °C (°F) 8.5
(47.3) 		10.6
(51.1) 		14.3
(57.7) 		19.6
(67.3) 		24.9
(76.8) 		27.6
(81.7) 		29.4
(84.9) 		28.9
(84.0) 		25.3
(77.5) 		21.1
(70.0) 		15.6
(60.1) 		10.5
(50.9) 		19.7
(67.5)
Record low °C (°F) −2.3
(27.9) 		1.0
(33.8) 		0.7
(33.3) 		7.3
(45.1) 		17.0
(62.6) 		18.3
(64.9) 		19.8
(67.6) 		19.7
(67.5) 		17.3
(63.1) 		13.0
(55.4) 		5.8
(42.4) 		0.8
(33.4) 		−2.3
(27.9)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 15.0
(0.59) 		11.6
(0.46) 		16.2
(0.64) 		10.7
(0.42) 		2.1
(0.08) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.9
(0.04) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.6
(0.02) 		5.1
(0.20) 		21.1
(0.83) 		83.3
(3.28)
Average relative humidity (%) 55 49 44 38 27 22 23 30 33 39 47 56 39
Source 1: Jeddah Regional Climate Center[5]
Source 2: Ogimet[6]

Culture

The International Random Film Festival was going to be hosted in Hofuf in January 2015, but it was replaced by Helsinki, Finland in May 2017.

Transportation

Airport

The city is served by King Fahd International Airport which is 160 km away in Dammam, despite the fact that the city has two airports of its own.

The local airport, Al-Ahsa International Airport, is being used for domestic and limited international flights to Dubai. While the other is an old airstrip which is now abandoned.

Railway

The city has a railway station connecting the city with the capital Riyadh to the west and Dammam to the north. All railways in Saudi Arabia are organized by the Saudi Railways Organization.

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King Fahd International Airport

King Fahd International Airport

King Fahd International Airport, also known as Dammam International Airport or simply Dammam Airport or King Fahd Airport, is the international airport serving Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The airport is located 31 kilometres northwest of downtown Dammam and is named after the former King of Saudi Arabia, Fahd ibn Abdulaziz (1921–2005). The airport serves the entire Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and is one of the three primary international airports in the kingdom.

Dammam

Dammam

Dammam is the fifth-most populous city in Saudi Arabia after Riyadh, Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina. It is the capital of the Eastern Province. With a total population of 1,252,523 as of 2020. The judicial and administrative bodies of the province, in addition to the administrative offices of other minor governmental departments functioning within the province, are located in the city. The word itself is generally used to refer to the city, but may also refer to its eponymous governorate.

Al-Ahsa International Airport

Al-Ahsa International Airport

Al-Ahsa International Airport is an airport serving Hofuf, a city in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.

Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Established in the 18th century as a small fishing village, the city grew rapidly in the early 21st century with a focus on tourism and luxury, having the second most five-star hotels in the world, and the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which is 828 metres (2,717 ft) tall.

Saudi Railways Organization

Saudi Railways Organization

The Saudi Railways Organization (SRO) was a state-owned railway company that operated part of Saudi Arabia's rail network, along with the Saudi Railway Company. The SRO operated a network of railways with a total length of approximately 1,380 kilometers. The network consisted of two main lines. A 449 km passenger line that links Dammam with Riyadh, and a 556 km freight line that connects the King Abdul Aziz Port in Dammam with Riyadh.

Notable people

Source: "Hofuf", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, December 15th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofuf.

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Further Reading

Gerrha

Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

Dammam

Jubail

Khobar

Al-Ahsa Governorate

King Faisal University

Jawatha Mosque

Index of Saudi Arabia–related articles

Al-Qarah

Al-Ahsa Oasis

Al-Ahsa International Airport

History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia

Tourism in Saudi Arabia

Dammam–Riyadh line

Dammam metropolitan area

Highway 40 (Saudi Arabia)
References
  1. ^ "Al-Hofuf Travel Information and Travel Guide – Saudi Arabia". Lonely Planet. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
  2. ^ Today, photos of Hofuf made by the photographer are held in the Ethnological Museum of Berlin; Hofuf (click on photo to enlarge); Hofuf in 1904.
  3. ^ Western Arabia and the Red Sea, Naval Intelligence Division, London 2005, p. 488 ISBN 0-7103-1034-X
  4. ^ Prothero, G.W. (1920). Arabia. London: H.M. Stationery Office. p. 99.
  5. ^ "Climate Data for Saudi Arabia". Jeddah Regional Climate Center. Archived from the original on May 12, 2012. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  6. ^ "Decoded synop reports". Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  7. ^ Publications, Publitec (December 22, 2011). Who's Who in the Arab World 2007-2008. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110930047.
External links
  • Hofuf on www.The-Saudi.net
  • Jabal Qarah, Splendid Arabia: A travel site with photos and routes
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