The city being built by Saudi Arabia is called The Line, located in the Strait of Tiran at the junction of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba, with one end at one end and the other extending into the hinterland of the Arabian Desert.
The city is 170 km long, 200 m wide and 500 m high. The project is not just talk, construction began as early as 2021, the first phase of completion in 2024 began to live, and it will be completed in 2030.
The Line has no car lanes or cars, only a high-speed train from start to finish, with a planned speed of up to 512 km/h, and if there is no stop in the middle, it will take 20 minutes to run the whole distance.
Saudi Arabia has a lot of oil, but The Line (first-tier city) is all clean energy, 170 kilometers long and 500 meters high façade, into solar panels, Saudi Arabia is full of sunshine, solar energy is rich. The Line (first-tier city) plans 1 million residents, a variety of facilities, due to the height of the upper and lower is sufficient, residents travel by elevator can basically cover most of the needs.
Some people say that the investment in the city of Saudi Arabia is not small, right? This problem seems to the Saudis, like scratching the itch of the boots, and there is no feeling at all. Instead of keeping tigers as pets, hunting falcons every day, and doing the whole thing, it is better to do something serious and build a unique building in the world.
Judging from the location of The Line( a first-tier city), it is located on the border of Saudi Arabia, but close to Europe, which is undoubtedly done to attract rich Arab merchants in Europe. Of The Line's population of 1 million, an estimated 380,000 are staffed, in addition to workers who maintain the city, there are also office workers at various large companies. Saudi Arabia is not only a first-tier city with the attention of the people, but also takes into account its economic value, using a unique shape and comfortable environment to attract European Arabs to come to work and live, which is also one of the measures of Saudi Arabia's economic transformation.
In recent years, oil exporters have had to face some challenges, such as the United States, Saudi Arabia's once largest oil exporter, which has now become an oil exporter, and several major countries are competing to build new energy vehicles. Resource exporters can not only rely on the export of resources a way, this is already a consensus, resource countries also need to transform, although Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates has done a lot of tourism industry, but it is far from enough.
Saudi Arabia has a population of about 36.17 million, of which about 62% are Saudi citizens. Riyadh, the saudi capital with a population of more than 8 million, used to be an oasis in the Daikhna Desert, surviving on seasonal streams in the Arabian Plateau to the west. Today, Riyadh is a metropolis in the desert, not only the largest city in Saudi Arabia, but also the largest city in the Arabian Peninsula. Riyadh's population is already overloaded, and if The Line works well, Saudi Arabia may have many first-tier cities in the future, dispersing the population pressure on the capital and other large cities.
Saudi Arabia is located in the middle of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Persian Gulf to the east and the Red Sea to the west. Much of Saudi Arabia is desert, with an average annual rainfall of less than 200 mm and daylight temperatures around 45°C in summer, with a maximum of more than 50°C.
Saudi Arabia is separated by the Nevd Desert to the north and Jordan, the Shijala Desert to the north and Kuwait, the Rub khali Desert to the east and south with Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen, and the Daikhna Desert in the middle. These deserts in Saudi Arabia are connected together, collectively known as the Arabian Desert, with an area of about 2.33 million square kilometers, second only to the Sahara Desert in the world.
Saudi Arabia has a very low forest cover, with only about 0.45% of the total land area (2015). Saudi Arabia doesn't even have a decent river, and agriculture relies entirely on groundwater for irrigation. Since 1970, Saudi Arabia has drilled more than 40,000 artesian freshwater wells, invested heavily in water conservancy projects, damned more than 200 streams with little water, and put into operation dozens of desalination stations in the Red Sea and Gulf coastal areas.
The farmland in Saudi Arabia is all circular, because in the middle are wells and sprinklers, and the spray range is a circle.
If you look at the natural environment, Saudi Arabia's habitable places are basically full of people, The Line is a bold attempt, not only for Saudi Arabia, but for all mankind.