Riyadh

Saudi Arabia

Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia, as well as the largest city on the Arabian Peninsula. It serves as the administrative capital of both the Riyadh Province and the Riyadh Emirate. It has been the Saudi capital since 1824, when it was designated as the seat of the Second Saudi State, the current form of the metropolis largely emerged in the 1950s as an expansion of the 18th-century walled town, following the dismantling of its defensive fortifications.

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Country: Saudi Arabia
Population: 4,465,000
Latitude: 24.64° N
Longitude: 46.77° E

Which way is Riyadh from…

From Paris, Riyadh lies at 109° to the east, 4,689 km as the crow flies.

Paris	109° east	4,689 km
London	109° east	4,951 km
New York	52° north-east	10,521 km
Madrid	95° east	4,971 km
Rome	110° east	3,683 km
Montreal	52° north-east	10,163 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	349° north	5,148 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

A flat map puts Riyadh south-east of London, at 127°. Your compass disagrees: 109°, east, 4,951 km away, because the shortest route runs across the Balkans and Turkey. From New York the gap is huge: 99° on the map, 52° on the compass, north-east. A landmark: Abu Dhabi lies due east of Riyadh, 768 km away, on the same latitude.