Afif

Afif is a city in focal Saudi Arabia, in the Najd district. It is arranged around somewhere between Riyadh and Mecca. The cutting edge town was built up in the 1910s as a hijra, or "settlement", for the migrant clans of the zone, especially the clan of 'Utaybah . It has from that point forward developed into a little city of 39,581 as of the 2004 census, not tallying the encompassing towns and towns, which together with 'Afif shape the 'Afif Governorate.

The city once filled in as a portal between the focal and western districts of Saudi Arabia. The city is likewise known to be the primary arrival site of the principal plane possessed by King Abdulaziz the main lord of Saudi Arabia. The town taken the name Afif from an old well in the zone called Afif. Individuals used to go by this well in their approach to Mekkah, for doing Hajj or Omrah, with the end goal to get water for whatever is left of the way.

At that point amid the long stretch of Hajj, individuals began to come around this Well to offer their products for the travelers, thusly, the greater part of these brokers began to live around the well to manage travelers. From that point, the general population from little towns around this Well begun to perceive how beneficial to live around this Well as houses was worked around this Well. Henceforth, the city began to grow up.