Nasiriyah Gate

Riyadh TV Tower (Arabic: برج تلفزيون الرياض) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a 170-meter-high (560 ft) television tower located in the al-Wisham neighborhood of Riyadh. It was built from 1978 to 1981 and surpassed the Riyadh Water Tower as the tallest building in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the major landmarks of the city.

Al-Wisham (Arabic: الوشام, lit. 'the tattoos') is a neighbourhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located west of al-Futah and north of Umm Sulaim in the sub-municipality of al-Shumaisi. The district emerged in the 1940s when King Abdulaziz ibn Saud built palaces for his son, Prince Mansour bin Abdulaziz. It was later incorporated into the capital metropolis during its multiple phases of expansion between 1950s and 1970s. It hosts the Riyadh TV Tower, one of the city's major landmarks.

ʽUlaysha Prison (also ʽUlaisha, Alisha, Olisha, سجن عليشة) is a prison in Riyadh run by the Saudi Arabian secret police agency Mabahith for arbitrary detention. During the 2011 Saudi Arabian protests, "the only brave man in Saudi Arabia", Khaled al-Johani, was held in ʽUlaysha Prison and it is suspected that several founding members of the Umma Islamic Party are being held there.

Umm Sulaim (Arabic: حي أم سليم, lit. 'mother of salam') is a historic neighbourhood in southern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located south of al-Wisham and west of ad-Dirah in the sub-municipality of al-Shumaisi. Covering an area of 90 hectares, it was established around 1946 and is named after several drought resistant bushes, known as salam, that were once found in the area.

Ulaysha (Arabic: حي عليشة) or Ulaisha is a residential neighborhood and a subject of Baladiyah al-Shumaisi in south-western Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Bordered by al-Badiah neighborhood to the south, al-Rafiah neighborhood to the west, al-Fakhiriyyah neighborhood to the north and al-Shumaysi, Umm Salim and al-Wisham neighborhoods to the east, it is considered to part of the old city area.

The Saudi Central Bank (Arabic: البنك المركزي السعودي), established in 1952 and known until 2020 as the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA; Arabic: مؤسسة النقد العربي السعودي), is the central bank of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Despite the 2020 name change, the Saudi Central Bank has continued to use the same acronym SAMA.

King Abdulaziz Mosque (Arabic: جامع الملك عبدالعزيز), is a historic Friday mosque in the al-Murabba neighborhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located next to the Murabba Palace compound and the National Museum Park in the King Abdulaziz Historical Center. Covering an area of 5540 square meters, it was first built around the 1940s, corresponding with the construction of Murabba Palace. The mosque held the funerary prayers for King Faisal bin Abdulaziz following his assassination in 1975 and was later rebuilt by the Royal Commission for Riyadh City in 1998.

The Murabba Palace (Arabic: Qasr al Murabba; the Square Palace) is one of the historic buildings in Al Murabba, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The palace is the first building that was erected outside the walls of the old city. It was named after its square with the form of 400 by 400 metres (1,300 by 1,300 ft). It is one of the museums in the city.

Al-Fouta (Arabic: الفوطة), alternatively transliterated as al-Futah, is a neighborhood in central Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located south of al-Murabba and north of al-Dirah in the sub-municipality of al-Malaz. It emerged in the 1940s following the construction of the Red Palace for then Saudi crown prince Saud bin Abdulaziz. It popularly hosts the Riyadh Water Tower, one of the notable landmarks in the city as well as the rest of the southern portion of the King Abdulaziz Historical Center, including the eponymous al-Fouta Park. As the neighborhood is bounded by al-Batʼha Street to the east, its eastern strip partially forms part of the al-Batʼha commercial area. The neighborhood is unofficially divided into two sections, Fouta East (Arabic: الفوطة الشرقية) and Fouta West (Arabic: الفوطة الغربية).

Quṣūr al-Fuṭa (Arabic: قصور الفوطة, romanized: Quṣūr al-Fuṭa) were a group of five palaces in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They were built for five sons of King 'Abd al-'Aziz Ibn Saud when they reached the age of marriage. The King ordered the palaces to be built in 1942. The palaces were located in the Al Fouta neighbourhood, a short distance south of Murabba Palace. An early photograph by Tommy Walters of ARAMCO was published by Facey in his book Riyadh, the Old City.

Al-Murabba (Arabic: المربع, romanized: al-murabbaʿ, lit. 'the square') is a historic neighborhood in central Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located west of al-Wazarat and north of al-Futah in the sub-municipality of al-Malaz. Its name reportedly comes from a broken square-shaped dry well around which the Murabba Palace was built and from where latter's name gets derived as well. It is situated in close proximity to the al-Batʼha commercial area and the Qasr al-Hukm District. Al-Murabba has lent its name to the New Murabba project, a planned downtown and real estate development in northwestern Riyadh. The neighborhood hosts a large presence of overseas Egyptian community.

The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (Arabic: مملكة الحجاز ونجد, Mamlakat al-Ḥijāz wa-Najd), initially the Kingdom of Hejaz and Sultanate of Nejd (Arabic: مملكة الحجاز وسلطنة نجد, Mamlakat al-Ḥijāz wa-Salṭanat Najd), was a dual monarchy ruled by Abdulaziz following the victory of the Saudi Sultanate of Nejd over the Hashemite Kingdom of the Hejaz in 1925. It was the fourth iteration of the Third Saudi State. In 1932, the two kingdoms were unified as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.