Al-Khalidiyyah حي الخالدية
Neighbourhood
Al Khalidiyyah neighborhood, April 2022
Coordinates: 24°37′26″N 46°45′18″E / 24.62389°N 46.75500°E / 24.62389; 46.75500
Country	Saudi Arabia
City	Riyadh
Region	Old Riyadh
Named for	Khalid bin Abdulaziz
Government
• Body	Baladiyah Al Batha
Language
• Official	Arabic
• Spoken	Bangla, Hindi, Urdu, Yemeni Arabic, Malayalam

Al-Khalidiyyah (Arabic: حي الخالدية, romanized: ḥaī al-Khālidīyah), is a low-income residential neighborhood in southeastern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located south of as-Sinaiyah and west of al-Faisaliyyah in the sub-municipality of al-Batʼha.^[1] It emerged as an offshoot of the settlement of al-Anouz (Arabic: حلة العنوز)^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]} and was renamed in the 1980s after King Khalid bin Abdulaziz.^[9] It is today inhabited mostly by overseas Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Yemeni migrant workers and their families.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

Covering an area of 950 acres,^[15] it is bordered between Ali Ibn Abi Talib Road to the east, Al Kharj Road to the west and Southern Ring Road to the south. The locality is also known for serving several schools and health centers for nearby districts^[16][17] besides being unpopular among residents for its seasonal power outages.^[18] The al-Khalidiya Park is also located in the southernmost extreme of the neighborhood.^[19] Since the late 1980s, the High Commission for the Development of Riyadh has implemented a series of projects in the neighborhood in order to reduce the groundwater levels.^[20]

Gallery

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  Abdul Rahman ibn Ibrahim Abu Hameed Mosque in 2023, the primary landmark of the neighbourhood
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  An alleyway in the al-Khalidiyyah neighbourhood
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  Al-Khalidiyah Park, 2023

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