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Hasa, Al (äl hä`sä, hă`sə), region, E Saudi Arabia, on the Persian Gulf. Administrated as the Eastern Province, Hofuf Hofuf or Al Hufuf , town (1993 pop. 225,847), E Saudi Arabia. Textile manufacturing, food processing, and Arabian horse breeding are important economic activities. It is also a trade center for dates, wheat, and fruit and has a large mosque.
..... Click the link for more information. is the chief town. Dates, wheat, and rice are produced. It was taken from the Turks in 1914 by Ibn Saud. The discovery of large oil reserves in the 1930s transformed the region and is Saudi Arabia's chief oil-producing area. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | However, it has lost out to other sites that included Saudi Arabia's Al Hasa Oasis, the UAE's Bu Tinah Shoals, the Dead Sea and Lebanon's Jeita Grotto. Click here to know more about the UAE nominations In the Landscapes and Ice Formations category of the New7Wonders of Nature competition, Liwa Oasis and the Empty Quarter currently sits in 12th place behind areas of beauty such as the Al Hasa Oasis in Saudi Arabia, the Vatnajokull Glacier in Iceland and current front-runner Oesling, a forested area covering the northern part of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The Wadi al Hasa is a large canyon draining the Transjordan Plateau into the Dead Sea that has been repeated cycles of settlement and land use for thousands of years. |
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