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The najd , also nedschd ( Arabic نجد, DMG naǧd 'Hochland'; engl. Nejd or Najd ), is a landscape in the interior of the Arabian Peninsula in what is now Saudi Arabia .
geography
The landscape covers 1.1 million km² and is located in the center of the Arabian Peninsula . The total area of the three provinces only amounts to a good half (566,173 km²). It is bordered in the west by the Hejaz , in the north by the Nefud desert , in the east by al-Hasa and in the south by the Rub al-Kali desert . Because of the desert climate , the land is only habitable in the existing oases. A total of seven million people live in this region.
Riyadh , the capital of Saudi Arabia, is located in southern Najd .
Political structure
| location | province | Arabic | Capital | Area km² |
Population 2004 1) |
density | Governorates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Ha'il | حائل | Ha'il | 103,887 | 527.033 | 5.1 | 4th | |
|
al-Qasim | القصيم | Buraida | 58,046 | 1,016,756 | 17.5 | 11 | |
|
ar-Riyadh | الرياض | Riad | 404.240 | 5,455,363 | 13.5 | 20th | |
| 1) Preliminary results of the census of September 15, 2004 | ||||||||
history
The najd had been the starting point for the Wahhabi movement and the rise of the Saud dynasty since the 18th century , but it was mainly contested with the Shammar .
After the conquest of the Hejaz kingdom in 1924, Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud was proclaimed king of "Hejaz and Najd and his neighboring countries" in 1926. In 1932, the “Kingdom of Hejaz and Najd” was renamed “Arab-Saudi Kingdom” ( Saudi Arabia ).
