via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\nAlthough most world records are held in its neighboring country UAE, Jeddah has made a name for Saudi Arabia with holding these 14 records, in a variety of categories.<\/p>\n
1. World’s Largest LED Advertisement Screen<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
Almost 1000 square meters large, the LED screen is located at King’s Road Tower in the city. \n21 floors on the north and south side, and and 16 floors on the west side, officially making it the world’s largest LED Screen.<\/p>\n
2. Most Football Passes in 1 minute<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
2 boys, Omar Mohammad Alzraiqi and Maged Qasem Al Qerbi beat the record for this category, \nachieving 107 passes under a minute, at a local mall in the city.<\/p>\n
3. World’s Tallest Fountain<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
King Fahd Fountain gushes water at over 853 feet, beating the misconception of Gateway Geyser, located in America, as being the tallest fountain.<\/p>\n
4. World’s Largest Shampoo Bottle<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
To promote their ‘Clear Men’ shampoo, the Binzagr Unilever Factory presented the world’s largest shampoo bottle. \nMeasuring at about 5.1 meters by 1.79 meters, it was displayed at a promotional event in a local mall back in 2012.<\/p>\n
5. World’s Largest Pink Ribbon<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
3,952 females gathered at a stadium in Jeddah to create this ribbon, in order to raise awareness for Breast Cancer. \nThey stood positioning themselves to make a beautiful aerial view of the official Breast Cancer pink ribbon.<\/p>\n
6. World’s Largest Tunic<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
Local clothing brand Lomar<\/em>, made the world\u2019s largest tunic to promote their stores back in 2010. It measured to be 33.90 meters long and 18.50 meters wide in 2010. \nWeighing 400kg, the tunic took 20 people about 2 months to make, and was later used to make 1,200 normal tunics to be donated to charity.<\/p>\n7. World’s Largest Scratch Card<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
Back in 2012, at a SAWA carnival, the world\u2019s largest scratch card was created by STC, to celebrate their \n10th anniversary. It measured to be 11.92 meters wide and 7.57 meters tall was\u00a0 revealed as a replica \nof their official recharge cards.<\/p>\n
8. World’s Largest Styrofoam Ship<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
A group of professional artists gathered to build a 13.6 meter high, 18.4 meter wide, and 4.5 meter deep ship for the Jeddah Festival. \nThe ship was also displayed at the Red Sea mall.<\/p>\n
9. World’s Largest Handprint Painting<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
This painting was created as an oath to protect the country’s environment, by ENTEC, and measured 10,000 meters squared. \nIt was made to look like a map of Saudi Arabia, as a part of National Day celebrations, and took 1.2 million people to create.<\/p>\n
10. World’s Largest Tea Bag<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
Back in 2014, a local mall in Jeddah displayed this large teabag by Rabea tea, and weighed 250 Kg's.<\/pre>\n11. World’s Tallest Flagpole<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
This flagpole rises about 170 meters high in Jeddah, and was hoisted on the 84th<\/sup> national day. It had beat previous record holder, Tajikistan, by 5 meters.<\/p>\n12. World’s Largest Donation of School Supplies in 24 Hours<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
Local charity, Ayoun Jeddah (Jeddah Eyes), collected 4,019 kilograms of school supplies within 24-hours, holding the world record for most donations.<\/p>\n
13. World’s Largest Lighthouse<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
Photo Credit: wikipedia.org<\/em><\/p>\nKnown as Jeddah Light, this lighthouse is located at the end of the Jeddah Seaport, and measures about 133 meters high. The range of sight for the lighthouse is around 46 kilometers, and is simultaneously a control room for the city\u2019s port and harbor.<\/p>\n
14. World’s Largest Backpack<\/h2>\n <\/h2>\n Photo Credit:\u00a0mbc.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nOmasu, a luggage manufacturing company achieved this record in 2012. Their backpack \nmeasured 10.37 meters high, 7.8 meters wide, and 2.8 meters deep.<\/p>\n
Considering how many records the city holds, it is only normal that Jeddah will hopefully increase them soon as the nation progresses!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via GIPHY Although most world records are held in its neighboring country UAE, Jeddah has made a name for Saudi Arabia with holding these 14 records, in a variety of categories. 1. World’s Largest LED Advertisement Screen Almost 1000 square meters large, the LED screen is located at King’s Road Tower in the city. 21 … ","protected":false},"author":3766,"featured_media":51782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4382,85],"tags":[4383,4638,4639],"acf":{"hide_featured_image":false,"featured_image":{"ID":51782,"id":51782,"title":"Copy of LOVIN SAUDI_Featured Image template (11)","filename":"Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11.png","filesize":531735,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/29162552\/Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11.png","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/feature\/check-out-these-14-random-yet-amazing-world-records-held-by-jeddah\/attachment\/copy-of-lovin-saudi_featured-image-template-11\/","alt":"","author":"3766","description":"","caption":"","name":"copy-of-lovin-saudi_featured-image-template-11","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":51767,"date":"2021-12-29 12:25:52","modified":"2021-12-29 12:25:52","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/29162552\/Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11-small.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/29162552\/Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11-medium.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/29162552\/Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/29162552\/Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11-large.png","large-width":800,"large-height":400,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/29162552\/Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11.png","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":400,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/29162552\/Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11.png","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":400,"small":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/29162552\/Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11-230x115.png","small-width":120,"small-height":60,"custom-size":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/29162552\/Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11.png","custom-size-width":400,"custom-size-height":200}},"featured_image_caption":"","summary":"Jeddah has made quite the name for itself with having 14 world records to its name. ","flexible_content":false,"legacy_image":"","legacy_full_image":"","type_of_video":"Self Hosted","lovin_video_link":false,"lovin_video_link_webm":false,"video_thumbnail":false,"disable_lovin_hearts":false,"lovin_heart_title":"","show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_content":"","sponsor_website":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_instagram":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"reveal_image":false,"featured_for_app":false,"legacy_meta_tags":"","is_guest_user":false,"episode_number":"","embed_code":"","episode_introduction":""},"image_feature":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/29162552\/Copy-of-LOVIN-SAUDI_Featured-Image-template-11-small.png","author_name":"Hera Shabbir","yoast_head":"\nCheck Out These 14 Random Yet Amazing World Records Held By Jeddah<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n