Sakakah

city in Saudi Arabia

Sakakah (Arabic: سكاكا) is the capital of Al Jawf Province in northern Saudi Arabia.

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The region is served by the new high-speed north-south railway. However, as 2020, Saudi Railway Company only runs one service per week, an overnight sleeper train from the capital Riyadh. 🌍 Al Jawf railway station is almost 40 km southwest of the city.

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Entrance to Marid castle.
One of the Rajajil column groups.
  • 🌍 Marid Castle (قصر مارد). Fortress dating back to the first millennium AD. (updated Nov 2018)
  • 🌍 Columns of Rajajil. Consists of 50 groups of erected stone columns and a number of stone pillars carved from sandstone. It is unclear when they were erected but some historians believe they belong to a temple built in the fourth millennium BC. (updated Jul 2020)
  • 🌍 Zabal Castle (قلعة زعبل). (updated Apr 2023)

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