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Riyadh City reflects, God grace, its real and pioneering role, as the capital of
the Kingdomof Saudi Arabia (KSA). It's the main hub of all national and sovereign
activitiesofthecountry,theincubatorofvariousgovernment,regional,Islamicand
international institutions and bodies, in addition to being the nationally leading
center for ministries, departments and administrative, cultural, scientific and
economicorganizations, aswell asdiplomaticmissions,UNandUNagencies.
The city enjoys a unique strategic site, in the middle of the vast regions of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which, for its part, occupies a middle house, among the
universecontinents, namelyAsia,AfricaandEurope.
Furthermore, Riyadh plays host to a very youthful composition of population,
as youth groups constitute its main component. It has also a very strong appeal to
investors,duetothehugelybigpublicspendingontheinfrastructure,solidfinancial
potentials, robust and flourishing markets, advance structures and sophisticated
systems, safeandstableenvironment.
Moreover, the city features a great deal of well-established and qualified
human resources, along commercial, industrial, agricultural, communications,
transportationandothervital services andutilities.
Having a wide, abundant and diversified natural resources, on one hand, and
taking advantage of all throughdecades of taking care anddevelopment, launching
ofaseriesofgreat,publicandprivate,projectsandenterprises,atallsectorsandparts
of the city, the kept scoring quantum leaps, in all aspects and fields of life. That fact,
hasmanaged to transformRiyadh into the preferreddestination for ambitious and
pioneer entrepreneurs and contributed to crown it as the best terminal for serious
andsuccessful investors, seekinggoldenopportunities, intheir longquest.
Thisbook, isnomore thanahumblecontributionto, only, depict somepictures
of several scenes, to stand witness of different aspects and dimensions of the daily
life, inRiyadhCity, and topresent apanoramic sceneryof amulti-faceted, vividand
rapidlygrowingcommunity.
Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz
Chairman of the High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh