Saudi Arabia has several hundred route kilometres of standard gauge railways linking the capital Riyadh with the Arabian Gulf.

Hamleys' most recent new store was opened in the Saudi capital Riyadh on 26 January 2012.

In 2003 suicide bombers suspected of having links with al-Qaeda killed 35 people - including a number of foreigners - in the capital Riyadh.

Wadjda, an 11-year-old Saudi girl living in the capital Riyadh, dreams of owning a green bicycle that she passes in a store every day on her way to school.

Satellite photos allegedly reveal an underground city and nuclear silos with Ghauri rockets in Al-Sulaiyil, south of the capital Riyadh.

During that time telephone lines were extended to Jeddah and Ta'if, but not to the capital Riyadh.

Carrefour has 12 franchise operated hypermarkets in Saudi Arabia, with 5 of them being in the capital Riyadh itself.

Also, the kingdom of Kinda was located in the south of the Saudi capital Riyadh in the 4th, 5th and early 6th centuries AD.

The capital Riyadh, located in the heart of the country, is supplied with desalinated water pumped from the Persian Gulf over a distance of 467 km.

However, the capital Riyadh is slap bang in the middle of Bedu country and so things are unlikely to change at a national level anytime soon.