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Khamis Mushayt
'Asircity
Total population
430,828
Demographic figures from General Authority for Statistics (Saudi Arabia). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Khamis Mushayt or Khamis Mushait is a city in south-west Saudi Arabia, located east of Abha, the provincial seat of the Asir Province 884 kilometres (549 mi) from the national capital of Riyadh. It is the capital of the Shahran tribe in the Asir region. It is the fifth-largest city in Saudi Arabia after Riyadh, Jeddah, Mecca and Medina, with an estimated metro population of 1,353,000 as of 2017. Khamis Mushayt is noted for being the fourth largest trading centre in Saudi Arabia, and its military airbase.
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History
Until the 1970s, Khamis Mushayt was a small town of less than 50,000 servicing the surrounding mild-climate agricultural region. Since then its population has grown dramatically to reach over 1,200,000. The city is surrounded by farms producing agricultural crops. King Khalid Air Base (KMX) has a paved runway without customs facilities. The base was designed and built by US Army and Air Force engineers in the 1960s and 70s and has F-15 service facilities. During the Gulf War in 1991, the US Air Force had a base here from which they launched bombers on Baghdad.
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Sources
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