Here’s The Answer To The ‘Giant Hole In Riyadh’ Mystery That Baffled Saudi Reddit
The Saudi Reddit community always has amazing things up its sleeves. A question recently posted on the R/SaudiArabia subreddit left a lot of peeps baffled. The question on the subreddit was “Why is there a hole in the middle of Riyadh?”
Look at it—there actually is a giant plot of empty land right in the city’s heart.
Why is there a hole in the middle of Riyadh?
by u/AttackHelicopter_21 in saudiarabia
A lot of answers were thrown around, but the reason behind that empty plot of land is that it was where the old airport/airbase.
But it won’t be an empty plot of land for long—it will be converted into the King Salman Park. When finished, it will be four times the size of New York’s Central Park.
هكذا ستصبح أكبر حديقة في العالم “حديقة الملك سلمان ” في #الرياض بعد اكتمالها .. وتعتبر أكبر من حديقة سنترال بارك في نيويورك بـ 4 مرات، وحديقة الهايد بارك في لندن بـ 5 مرات ، وحديقة جاردن باي في سنغافوره بـ13 مرة 🇸🇦🤩🌳. pic.twitter.com/llKUwfBtTS
— قريباً في السعودية (@KSAsoon1) August 16, 2022
