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Unaizah

Unaizah ( ) or officially The Governorate of Unaizah (also spelled Onaizah, Onizah, or Unayzah; ) is a Saudi Arabian city in the Al Qassim Province. It lies south of the province capital Buraydah and north of Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is the second largest city in Al-Qassim Province with a population of 184,600 (2022 census).

Key facts

Settlement.native_name: محافظة عنيزة
Settlement.settlement_type: Governorate
Settlement.image_skyline: A picture of the internal ring road in Al-shrimyah district in Unaizah.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: The internal ring road around Unaizah Mall
Settlement.pushpin_map: Saudi Arabia
Settlement.map_caption: Location in Saudi Arabia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Saudi Arabia
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Al Qassim Province
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.population_as_of: 2022
Settlement.population_total: 184,600
Settlement.timezone1: SAST
Settlement.utc_offset: +03:00
Settlement.postal_code_type: Postal Code
Settlement.postal_code: 51911
Settlement.area_code: +966-16

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Historically, Unaizah was an important stopping point for Muslim pilgrims coming from Mesopotamia (now Iraq) and Persia (now Iran) on their way to Makkah. Many historians believe that Unaizah was inhabited hundreds of years before the spread of Islam, citing its reference in numerous poems from some of the most important poets of pre-Islamic Arabia such as Imru' al-Qais.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Unaizah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.