5 acres, and a population of 376,325 people, according to the statistics of for the year 2010 | Alkharj is considered a first-class agricultural region, as it has been and still is a food basket since ancient times, with its diverse agricultural crops |
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Geography [ ] There are many valleys that flow into Alkharj | Climate [ ] The climate of Alkharj is continental, really hot through the summer and dry cold through the winter plus a little chance of rain |
[ ] Education [ ] The city is home to a number of state schools, which are fully funded by the government, and public and international schools teaching foreign curricula.
It connects the with the Asir region and Yemen through the city of Al-Saih, and between Alkharj and , which is under expansion | The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Alkharj organized the first dairy festival under the slogan of "Alkharj is the capital of dairy industry" in the month of 1429 Hijri corresponding to May 2008, and is considered the first of its kind in the Kingdom and the first in the Persian Gulf, where it witnessed the popularity and admiration of visitors |
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This highway through Alkharj links the capital with the in the south of the Kingdom, then to the | Economy [ ] Al-Saih is one of the main and active cities in the present and future of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is the modern capital of Alkharj and its administrative and economic center with a population of more than 376 thousand people |
Alkharj has been crowned as the capital of dairy industry.
25These wells have remained the main source of water supplies for all uses in the , and its quantities and levels have started to gradually decrease over the past two decades as a result of increasing the withdrawal and consumption of water from the feeding layer after the expansion of digging artesian wells by farmers, especially major agricultural and animal projects, which in return led to a stoppage of flow Natural in all eyes and the gradual depletion of the deeper eyes, the depth ranges between 5 to 16 meters, then the deepest | There is also a road that links Alkharj with the eastern region, the Gulf Cooperation Council states, , the and |
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these cavities in Al-Kharj, during summer period, are popular with visitors who come to see them from inside and outside the Kingdom, especially citizens of the countries | This is as result of a good seed planted by the unifier of this country, King Abdulaziz, which is the first seed for dairy production in the Kingdom, when his Majesty directed the establishment of the Alkharj Agricultural Project in 1354 Hijri |
The city of Al-Saih is the home to many significant economic and government installations, perhaps the most noted of which are the , which is the only military factory in the , and , which is one of the largest air bases in the world, which includes the main supply and supply base for the , General of arms and savings and many branches of the various military sectors of the.
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