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Road signs in Saudi Arabia differ by locale, but they do tend to closely follow European practices with certain distinctions and conform to the general pattern as set out in the Vienna Convention of Road Signs and Signals. Road signs display text in Arabic language and English language. [ 1] Distances are displayed in metric units and in ...
Highway 40 ( Arabic: الطريق السريع ٤٠) is a major east–west six-lane controlled-access highway in Saudi Arabia, connecting Jeddah, the second-largest city in the kingdom, to the economically prosperous and oil-rich Eastern Province, making it the kingdom's only coast-to-coast highway. The highway runs in a northeast–southwest ...
Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation ), also called water-wheel and circle irrigation, is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot and crops are watered with sprinklers. [ 1][ 2] A circular area centered on the pivot is irrigated, often creating a circular pattern in crops when viewed ...
Sign on Highway 613 guiding to Dammam via Highway 619, also known as Doha Road. Highway 613 ( Arabic: الطريق السريع ٦١٣) is a major north-south controlled-access highway in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia connecting the Dammam metropolitan area to the industrial cities of Jubail and Ra's Al-Khair. The highway runs along and ...
Buraidah. / 26.333°N 43.967°E / 26.333; 43.967. Buraidah ( Arabic: بريدة Buraydah) is the capital and largest city of Al-Qassim Region in north-central Saudi Arabia in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula. Buraydah lies equidistant from the Red Sea to the west and Persian Gulf to the east. It is known for its dates festival which ...
The Ministry of Transport in 2014 maintained a total estimated road length of 627,000 km, of which 151,000 km were highways linking major regions of Saudi Arabia with international borders and serving as interconnecting roads between the major Saudi Arabian cities; 102,000 km were secondary roads linking major cities with other smaller cities in their respective provinces; 374,000 km were ...
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. is an American utility company based in Houston, Texas, that provides electric and natural gas utility to customers in several markets in the American states of Indiana, Ohio, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, and Texas. Part of the Fortune 500, the company was formerly known as Reliant Energy, NorAm Energy, Houston ...
July 11, 2024 at 7:41 AM. HOUSTON - More than 1 million people were still waking up without power across the Houston area on Thursday, three days after Beryl roared across the area. On Wednesday ...