Sakaka

Sakakah is a metropolis in northwestern Saudi Arabia and is the capital of Al Jawf Province. It is positioned simply to the north of the An Nafud wilderness. Sakakah had a populace of 242,813 at the 2010 Census. Sakakah is an oasis town on an historical caravan course across the Arabian peninsula. Many regions of Saudi Arabia are suffering to develop and modernize in a brief span of time.

In latest years, the Saudi government has been supplying greater seed capital to Al-Jawf vicinity, specifically in Sakaka in hopes of developing the economically starved area of the kingdom. For this purpose, the city is full of latest authorities buildings, schools & hospitals and are built adjacent to crumbling ruins of older buildings which are in dire want of restore. One foremost function of the metropolis is the unexpectedly expanding Al Jouf University, founded in 2005. Sakaka is a small but expanding city with masses of production in progress.

A large ongoing project is the 1,000-bed Prince Muhammed Bin Abdulaziz Medical City that's under creation. The history of Al-Jawf dates again more than four thousand years. It is the home of many historical & prehistoric archaeological sites such Za'bal Castle & Well, the Omar ibn Al-Khattab Mosque, positioned in Dowmat Al-Jandal and Mard Castle. There are also the ancient Rajajil standing stones in Sakaka, relationship lower back almost 6,000 years.