Rabigh

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Satellite Image of the Town by Google Earth

Rabigh (Arabic:رابغ) is an ancient town on the western coast of Saudi Arabia (Red Sea). It is in Makkah Province. It used to be named "Al-Johfa" until the early years of the 17th century. In some ancient stories the town had been completely destroyed via sea water. When it was rebuilt it was re-named as "Rabigh".

Population

Its population is around 100,000 according to latest count done by the government.

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Town Seaport Image by Google Earth

Health care

Rabigh has one governmental hospital calld "Rabigh Hospital" which has almost all clinics needed in any hospital, but it does not have the ability of big surgeries. It also has two small general private clinical centers (Alnakheel and Alamal) It also has a dental clinic called "Rabigh Dental Clinic."

Education

It has many schools for both boys and girls at all level (elementary, intermediate, and secondary). But it does not have universities or post secondary school study schools. For girls, it has a new college that has only two departments: English and Computer Science.

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Town Airport (by Google Earth)

People

People in rabigh are example of multicultural society where people from different area of Saudi Arabia come and connect to gother through marriage and all became relatives to all.

Industry

It has many factories (Arabian Cement Factory, Electricity Station that support Makkah & Madinah, Aramco Refinary) It has the biggest oil refinery in the world.

Rabigh is now in full boom, as Saudi Aramco signed a pact, with japans Company to have Joint Venture, to built new Petro-Chemical plants. After construction it will be the one of the world biggest, Petro-Chemical plants.

Also about 40km from Rabigh a new City is under construction under the leadership of “The custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud”. City is a multi-billion economic project revealed in 2005. The proposed city would be fairly small (168 km²), 50km in length. But it will have huge buildings and high skyscrapers that would be an important landmark in Saudi Arabia and The project cost is about 100 Billion SAR = $53.3 Billion USD.

Housing

There is a shortage of houses in rabigh. So, if somebody want to visit rabigh he should plan for it before going there because there is no Hotels except one that is always full by Aramco visitors and experts. Apartments pricing: It is between S.R. 10,000 a year up to 30,000 depending on

• No. of rooms
• Place

However, you can easily get a good apartment with 3 rooms for a year with S.R. 15,000.

22°48′N 39°02′E